1 Corinthians 6:7
Now, certainly, you are altogether in fault, that you have law-suits with one another. Why do you not rather suffer injustice? Why do you not rather suffer yourselves to be defrauded?
Henry Tompkins Anderson’s 1864 New Testament
In The King James Version
In Context
6But brother goes to law with brother, and this before the unbelievers?
8But you act unjustly, and you defraud, and that, too, your brethren.
Cross References
Matthew 5:39But I say to you, Resist not the injurious. But whoever will smite you on your right cheek, turn to him the other also.
Luke 6:29To him that strikes you on one cheek, offer also the other; and from him that takes away your mantle, withhold not your coat.
1 Thessalonians 5:15See that no one render evil for evil to any, but always pursue that which is good toward one another and toward all.
1 Peter 2:19For this is praiseworthy, if any one, on account of conscience toward God, endure sorrows, suffering unjustly.
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 →