1 Corinthians 6:7
Indeed, to say nothing more, the fact that you have lawsuits with one another is altogether a defect in you. Why not rather suffer injustice? Why not rather endure being cheated?
Montgomery New Testament
In The King James Version
In Context
6Must brother go to law with brother, and that, too, before unbelievers?
8On the contrary, you yourselves are inflicting injustice and fraud, and that upon your brothers.
Cross References
Matthew 5:39"But I tell you not to retaliate the injury; but whoever strikes you on the right cheek, turn the other to him also;
Luke 6:29To him who gives you a blow on the jaw Turn the other jaw also; And from him who is robbing you of your cloak Withhold not your coat also.
1 Thessalonians 5:15Take care that none of you ever return evil for evil, but always pursue what is kind to one another and to all.
1 Peter 2:19For it is an acceptable thing to God, if from a sense of duty to him, a man endures a wrong, even 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 →