To begin with, I hear you and, to some extent, I believe it.
While there exist among you jealousy and party feeling, is it not true that you are worldly, and are acting merely as other men do?
There is a wide-spread report respecting a case of immorality among you, and that, too, of a kind that does not occur even among the Gentiles-a man, I hear, is living with his father's wife!
Can it be that, when one of you has a dispute with another, he dares to have his case tried before the heathen, instead of before Christ's People?