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If you have trials of worldly matters, take those who are least esteemed in the congregation and make them judges. This I say to your shame. Is there really no wise man among you? What, no one at all who can judge between brother and brother? But one brother goes to law against another, and that under the unbelievers?

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Therefore, if you have disputes about such matters, do you ask for a ruling from those whose way of life is scorned in the church? I say this to shame you.(A) Is it possible that there is nobody among you wise enough to judge a dispute between believers?(B) But instead, one brother(C) takes another to court—and this in front of unbelievers!(D)

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