1 Corinthians 6:7
Indeed it is already altogether a small matter to you, that you have law-suits one with another. Why do you not rather stiffer injustice? why are you not rather defrauded?
1902 William Baxter Godbey NT
In The King James Version
In Context
6But does brother go to law with brother, and that before the unbelievers?
8But you inflict injustice, and defraud, and that your brethren.
Cross References
Matthew 5:39But I say unto you, Resist not him that is evil: but whosoever smites thee on thy right cheek, turn to him the other also:
Luke 6:29To the one smiting thee on the cheek turn the other also; and from the one taking away thy cloak do not withhold even the coat.
1 Thessalonians 5:15See that no one may return evil for evil to any one; but always pursue good toward one another, and toward all.
1 Peter 2:19For this is grace, if, through the conscience of God, one bears sorrows and suffering 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 →