1 Corinthians 6:5

I speak shame about you. So there is not among you not even one wise man who will be able to arbitrate between his brother?

A Conservative Version

In The King James Version

I speak to your shame. Is it so, that there is not a wise man among you? no, not one that shall be able to judge between his brethren?

In Context

4Indeed therefore whenever ye have mundane legal disputes, men who are disdained by the church, these ye seat to judge.

6But brother goes to law against brother, and this before unbelievers?

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Cross References

Proverbs 14:8The wisdom of a prudent man is to understand his way, but the folly of fools is deceit.

1 Corinthians 3:18Let not one man deceive himself. If any man among you seems to be wise in this age, let him become foolish so that he may become wise.

1 Corinthians 4:14I do not write these things shaming you, but I warn you as my beloved children.

1 Corinthians 15:34Sober up rightly, and do not sin, for some have ignorance of God. I speak shame about you.

James 3:13Who is wise and understanding among you? Let him show from his good behavior his works in mildness of wisdom.

Matthew Henry on 1 Corinthians 6:2-9

Causes of Litigation Censured. ( a. d. 57.) 1 Dare any of you, having a matter against another, go to law before the unjust, and not before the saints? 2 Do ye not know that the saints shall judge the world? and if the world shall be judged by you, are ye unworthy to judge the smallest matters? 3 Know ye not that we shall judge angels? how much more things that pertain to this life? 4 If then ye have judgments of things pertaining to this life, set them to judge who are least esteemed in the church. 5 I speak to… Read the whole commentary →

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