1 Corinthians 6:5

For shame to you I say it. So, there is not even one wise man among you, who is competent to do equity between a brother and his brother:

James Murdock's Translation of the Syriac Peshitta

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 ye have a controversy about a worldly matter, seat ye on the bench for you those who are contemned in the church!

6but a brother litigateth with his brother, and also before them that believe not!

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Cross References

1 Corinthians 3:18Let no one deceive himself. Whoever among you thinketh that he is wise in this world, let him become a fool, that he may be wise.

1 Corinthians 4:14I write these things, not to shame you; but I instruct you, as dear children.

1 Corinthians 15:34Let your hearts be righteously excited, and sin not: for there are some, in whom is not the love of God: it is to your shame, I say it.

James 3:13Who is wise and instructed among you? Let him show his works in praiseworthy actions, with modest 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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