1 Corinthians 6:7
Now there is certainly an offense among you, beyond everything else, when you have court cases against one another. Should you not accept injury instead? Should you not endure being cheated instead?
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In Context
6Instead, brother contends against brother in court, and this before the unfaithful!
8But you are doing the injuring and the cheating, and this toward brothers!
Cross References
Proverbs 2:5then you will understand the fear of the Lord, and you will discover the knowledge of God.
Proverbs 20:22Do not say, “I will repay evil.” Wait for the Lord, and he will free you.
Matthew 5:39But I say to you, do not resist one who is evil, but if anyone will have struck you on your right cheek, offer to him the other also.
Luke 6:29And to him who strikes you on the cheek, offer the other also. And from him who takes away your coat, do not withhold even your tunic.
1 Thessalonians 5:15See to it that no one repays evil for evil to anyone. Instead, always pursue whatever is good, with one another and with all.
1 Peter 2:19For this is grace: when, because of God, a man willingly endures sorrows, suffering injustice.
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 →