This I say to your shame. Is there utterly no wise man among you? what not one at all? that can judge between brother and brother?
¶ And in those days Peter stood up in the midst of the disciples and said (The number of names were about an hundred and twenty)
¶ Ananias answered: Lord I have heard by many of this man, how much hurt he hath done to thy saints at Ierusalem:
Or else doth not nature teach you, that it is a shame for a man, if he have long hair:
Awake truly out of sleep, and sin not. For some have not the knowledge of God. I speak this unto your rebuke.
Let no man deceive himself. If any man seem wise among you, let him be a fool in this world, that he may be wise.
we are fools for Christe's sake, and ye are wise thorow Christ: we are weak, and ye are strong. Ye are honorable, and we are despised.
¶ I write not these things to shame you: but as my beloved sons I warn you.
¶ How dare one of you having business with another, go to law under the wicked? and not rather under the saints?
If ye have judgements of worldly matters, take them which are despised in the congregation, and make them judges.
¶ If any that is among you lack wisdom, let him ask of God (which giveth to all men without doubleness, and casteth no man in the teeth:) and it shall be given him: