For I speak to your shame. Is it so that there is not a wise one among you, not even one in your midst who shall be able to judge between his brother?
The wisdom of the wise is to understand his way, but the folly of fools is deceit.
And in those days Peter stood up in the midst of the disciples and said, (the number of names together was about a hundred and twenty,)
And Ananias answered, Lord, I have heard from many of this man, how many evil things he has done to Your saints at Jerusalem.
Does not even nature itself teach you that if man has long hair, it is a shame to him?
Be righteously awake, and sin not; for some have ignorance of God. I speak this to your shame.
Let no one deceive himself. If anyone among you seems to be wise in this world, let him become a fool so that he may be wise.
We are fools for Christ's sake, but you are wise in Christ. We are weak, but you are strong. You are honorable, but we are despised.
I do not write these things to shame you, but as my beloved children I warn you.
Do any of you dare, when you have a matter against another, to go to law before the unjust, and not before the saints?
If, then, you truly have judgments of the things of this life, set those who are least esteemed in the church to judge.
But if any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask of God, who gives to all liberally and with no reproach, and it shall be given to him.