For it has been declared to me concerning you, my brethren, by those of Chloe's household, that there are contentions among you.

Dare any of you, having a matter against another, go to court before the unrighteous, and not before the saints?

Do you not know that we shall judge angels? To say nothing of things that pertain to this life?

I say this to your shame. Is it so, that there is not a wise person among you, not even one, who will be able to judge between his brethren?

Now therefore, it is already an utter failure with you that you go to court against one another. Why do you not rather accept wrong? Why do you not rather be defrauded?

For first of all, I hear that when you come together as a church there are divisions among you, and in part I believe it.

For I fear lest, when I come, I shall not find you such as I wish, and that I shall be found by you such as you do not wish; lest there be contentions, jealousies, outbursts of wrath, selfish ambitions, evil speakings, whisperings, conceits, commotions;

But if you bite and devour one another, take heed that you are not consumed by one another.

Now the works of the flesh are evident, which are: adultery, sexual perversion, uncleanness, licentiousness,

envy, murders, drunkenness, revelries, and the like; of which I tell you beforehand, just as I also told you in time past, that those who practice such things will not inherit the kingdom of God.

For where envy and contention exist, there is confusion and every evil deed.

Where do wars and fightings come from among you? Do they not come from your lusts that war in your members?

You lust and do not have. You murder and covet and cannot obtain. You fight and war. Yet you do not have because you do not ask.

But, like Adam, they have transgressed the covenant; they have dealt treacherously against Me there.

For from within, out of the heart of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, sexual perversions, murders,

thefts, covetousness, wickedness, deceit, licentiousness, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, foolishness.

in which you formerly walked according to the course of this world, according to the ruler of the authority of the air, the spirit who now works in the sons of disobedience,

among whom also we all formerly conducted ourselves in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, just as the others;

that you put off, concerning your former conduct, the old man which is corrupted according to the deceitful lusts,

and that you put on the new man which was created according to God, in true righteousness and holiness.

For we ourselves were also once foolish, disobedient, led astray, enslaved to various lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful and hating one another.

that he no longer should live the rest of his time in the flesh in the lusts of men, but in the will of God.