1 Corinthians 6:7
Now, it is utterly a defeat for you that you go to law one with another. Why do you not rather suffer the wrong? why do you not rather allow yourselves to be defrauded?
Revised King James New Testament
In The King James Version
In Context
6But brother goes to law against brother, and that before the unbelievers.
8Instead, you yourselves do wrong, and defraud, and you do this to your brethren.
Cross References
Matthew 5:39But I say to you, Do not resist evil: but whoever shall strike you on your right cheek, turn to him the other also.
Luke 6:29And to him who strikes you on the cheek, offer him the other also; and from him who takes away your coat do not withhold your shirt either.
1 Thessalonians 5:15See that no one repays another with evil for evil; but always seek that which is good, both for yourselves, and for all men.
1 Peter 2:19For this is commendable, if for the sake of conscience toward God, a man endures sorrow while suffering wrongfully.
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 →