A   How dare one off you hauynge busynes with another, go to lawe before the vnrighteous, and not before the sayntes? ^noteDo ye not knowe that the sayntes shal iudge the worlde? Yf the worlde then shalbe iudged off you, are ye not good ynough to iudge small matters? Knowe ye

not that we shal iudge the angels? how moch more thinges that pertayne to the t&ebar;porall life? Therfore yf ye haue iudgmentes of temporall matters, take them that are despysed in the congregacion, and set them to be iudges. This I saye to youre shame. Is there vtterly no wyse man am&obar;ge you? What not one at all, that can iudge betwene brother ∧ brother? but one brother goeth to lawe with another, and that before the vnbeleuers?

B   Now therfore is there vtterly a faute am&obar;ge you, that ye go to lawe one with another. ^noteWhy rather suffre ye not wronge? Why suffre ye not youre selues rather to be defrauded? but ye youre selues do wr&obar;ge and defraude, and that euen the brethr&ebar;. Knowe ye not that þe; vnrighteous shal not inheret the kyngdome of God? Be not disceaued. Nether whoremongers, ^note ner worshippers off ymages, ner breakers off wedlocke, ner weaklinges, nether abusers of them selues with mankynde, ner theues, nether the couetous, ner dr&obar;kardes, ner cursed speakers, ner extorcioners shal inheret the kyngdome of God. And soch haue some of you bene, but ye are wa&esset;hed, ye are sanctified, ye are made righteous by the name of the LORDE Iesus, and by the sprete of oure God.

C   I maye do all thinges, but ^note all thinges are not profitable. I maye do all thinges, but I wil be broughte vnder no m&abar;s power. Meates are ordeyned for þe; bely, ∧ the bely for meates. But God shal destroye both it and them. The body belongeth not vnto whordome, but vnto the LORDE, and the LORDE vnto the body ^note God hath raysed vp the LORDE, and shal rayse vs vp also by his power. Knowe ye not that youre bodies are the m&ebar;bres of Christ? Shal I now take the membres of Christ, and make them the membres of an harlot? God forbyd. Or do ye not knowe, that he which cleueth vnto an harlot, is one body? For they shalbe two ( ^note sayeth he) in one fle&esset;he. But he that cleueth vnto the LORDE, is one sprete.

Fle whordome. All synnes þt; a man doth, are without the body. But he that commytteth whordome, synneth agaynst his awne body. ^noteOr knowe ye not that youre body is the temple of the holy goost? Whom ye haue of God, and are not youre awne? ^noteFor ye are dearly boughte. Prayse ye God therfore in yo&highr; body ∧ in yo&highr; sprete, which are Gods.

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