1 Corinthians 6:5

But to your reproach am I to say to you, So there is not among you even one wise man, who is able to adjust between a brother and his brother?

The Peschito Syriac New Testament: Translated into English by John Wesley Etheridge

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

4But if you have matters to be judged regarding the world, those who are little-esteemed in the church make you to sit in judgment.

6But a brother with his brother litigates, and, moreover, before those who are unbelievers!

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Cross References

1 Corinthians 3:18Let no man deceive himself. Whoever among you supposeth himself wise in this world, let him become foolish, that he may be wise.

1 Corinthians 4:14Not as to shame you write I these things, but as my beloved children I admonish (you).

1 Corinthians 15:34AWAKEN your hearts rightly, and sin not; for there are some who have not the knowledge of Aloha; to your shame I say it.

James 3:13Who of you is wise and instructed? let him show his works in good conversations in meek 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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