1 Corinthians 6:7
More than this, it is not to your credit to have causes at law with one another at all. Why not put up with wrong? why not undergo loss?
Bible in Basic English
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In Context
6But a brother who has a cause at law against another takes it before Gentile judges.
8So far from doing this, you yourselves do wrong and take your brothers' property.
Cross References
Proverbs 2:5Then the fear of the Lord will be clear to you, and knowledge of God will be yours.
Proverbs 20:22Do not say, I will give punishment for evil: go on waiting for the Lord, and he will be your saviour.
Matthew 5:39But I say to you, Do not make use of force against an evil man; but to him who gives you a blow on the right side of your face let the left be turned.
Luke 6:29If a man gives you a blow on one side of your face, then let the other side be turned to him; from him who takes away your coat, do not keep back your robe.
1 Thessalonians 5:15Let no one give evil for evil; but ever go after what is good, for one another and for all.
1 Peter 2:19For it is a sign of grace if a man, desiring to do right in the eyes of God, undergoes pain as punishment for something which he has not done.
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 →