When any of you has a legal dispute with another, does he dare go to court before the unrighteous rather than before the saints?

I wish that everyone was as I am. But each has his own gift from God, one this way, another that.

I do not mean yours but the other person’s. For why is my freedom being judged by another’s conscience?

For one person is given through the Spirit the message of wisdom, and another the message of knowledge according to the same Spirit,

And there are heavenly bodies and earthly bodies. The glory of the heavenly body is one sort and the earthly another.

so that we may preach the gospel in the regions that lie beyond you, and not boast of work already done in another person’s area.

Finally, brothers and sisters, ¹  rejoice, set things right, be encouraged, agree with one another, live in peace, and the God of love and peace will be with you.

not that there really is another gospel, ¹  but ²  there are some who are disturbing you and wanting ³  to distort the gospel of Christ.

For you were called to freedom, brothers and sisters; ¹  only do not use your freedom as an opportunity to indulge your flesh, ²  but through love serve one another. ³ 

Therefore, having laid aside falsehood, each one of you speak the truth with his neighbor, ¹  for we are members of one another.

Instead of being motivated by selfish ambition ¹  or vanity, each of you should, in humility, be moved to treat one another as more important than yourself.

And may the Lord cause you to increase and abound in love for one another and for all, just as we do for you,

Now on the topic of brotherly love ¹  you have no need for anyone to write you, for you yourselves are taught by God to love one another.

See that no one pays back evil for evil to anyone, but always pursue what is good for one another and for all.

For we too were once foolish, disobedient, misled, enslaved to various passions and desires, spending our lives in evil and envy, hateful and hating one another.

Here is another way that our people ¹  can learn ²  to engage in good works to meet pressing needs and so not be unfruitful.

But exhort one another each day, as long as it is called “Today,” that none of you may become hardened by sin’s deception.

And similarly, was not Rahab the prostitute also justified by works when she welcomed the messengers and sent them out by another way?

Do not grumble against one another, brothers and sisters, ¹  so that you may not be judged. See, the judge stands before the gates! ² 

You have purified ¹  your souls by obeying the truth ²  in order to show sincere mutual love. ³  So ⁴  love one another earnestly from a pure heart. ⁵