1 If one of you has a grievance against an opponent, does he dare to go to law before irreligious men and not before God's people?
2 Do you not know that God's people will sit in judgement upon the world? And if you are the court before which the world is to be judged, are you unfit to deal with these petty matters?
3 Do you not know that we are to sit in judgement upon angels–to say nothing of things belonging to this life?
4 If therefore you have things belonging to this life which need to be decided, is it men who are absolutely nothing in the Church–is it they whom you make your judges?
5 I say this to put you to shame. Has it come to this, that there does not exist among you a single wise man competent to decide between a man and his brother,