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1 Corinthians 6:2

Is it not certain that the saints will be the judges of the world? if then the world will be judged by you, are you unable to give a decision about the smallest things?

Bible in Basic English

In The King James Version

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?

In Context

1How is it, that if any one of you has a cause at law against another, he takes it before a Gentile judge and not before the saints?

3Is it not certain that we are to be the judges of angels? how much more then of the things of this life?

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Cross References

Psalms 49:14\49:13\This is the way of the foolish; their silver is for those who come after them, and their children get the pleasure of their gold. (Selah.)

Daniel 7:18But the saints of the Most High will take the kingdom, and it will be theirs for ever, even for ever and ever.

Zechariah 14:5And the valley will be stopped ... and you will go in flight as you went in flight from the earth-shock in the days of Uzziah, king of Judah: and the Lord my God will come, and all his holy ones with him.

Luke 22:30So that you may take food and drink at my table in my kingdom, and be seated like kings, judging the twelve tribes of Israel.

2 Corinthians 4:18While our minds are not on the things which are seen, but on the things which are not seen: for the things which are seen are for a time; but the things which are not seen are eternal.

1 John 2:16Because everything in the world, the desire of the flesh, the desire of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father but of the world.

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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