1 Corinthians 6:5

I speak to your shame. Is it so that there is not among you any one wise man, that is able to judge between his brethren ?

Douay-Rheims 1899

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

4If therefore you have judgments of things pertaining to this world, set them to judge, who are the most despised in the church.

6But brother goeth to law with brother, and that before unbelievers.

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Cross References

Proverbs 14:8The wisdom of a. discreet man is to understand his way: and the imprudence of fools erreth.

1 Corinthians 3:18Let no man deceive himself: if any man among you seem to be wise in this world, let him become a fool, that he may be wise.

1 Corinthians 4:14I write not these things to confound you; but I admonish you as my dearest children.

1 Corinthians 15:34Awake, ye just, and sin not. For some have not the knowledge of God, I speak it to your shame.

James 3:13Who is a wise man, and endued with knowledge among you? Let him shew, by a good conversation, his work in the meekness 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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