1 Corinthians 6:7
Now, therefore, you make yourselves guilty while you have litigation one with another. For why do you not bear injury? and why do you not suffer fraud?
The Peschito Syriac New Testament: Translated into English by John Wesley Etheridge
In The King James Version
In Context
6But a brother with his brother litigates, and, moreover, before those who are unbelievers!
8But you injure, and you defraud, also your brethren!
Cross References
Matthew 5:39But I say unto you, that you shall not rise up against evil: but if any one strike thee on the right cheek, turn to him the other also.
Luke 6:29And to one who striketh you on your cheek, offer to him the other: and whosoever taketh your cloak, forbid him not your coat also.
1 Thessalonians 5:15And beware, lest any of you evil render for evil; but always follow after (those things which are) good (pl.) toward one another, and toward every man.
1 Peter 2:19For these are pleasing before Aloha, who, for the sake of a good conscience, endure the afflictions that come upon them unjustly.
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 →