1 Corinthians 6:7
Nay, already it is altogether a defect in you, that ye have lawsuits one with another. Why not rather take wrong? why not rather be defrauded?
Revised Version 1895
In The King James Version
In Context
6but brother goeth to law with brother, and that before unbelievers?
8Nay, but ye yourselves do wrong, and defraud, and that your brethren.
Cross References
Proverbs 2:5Then shalt thou understand the fear of the LORD, and find the knowledge of God.
Proverbs 20:22Say not thou, I will recompense evil: wait on the LORD, and he shall save thee.
Matthew 5:39but I say unto you, Resist not him that is evil: but whosoever smiteth thee on thy right cheek, turn to him the other also.
Luke 6:29To him that smiteth thee on the one cheek offer also the other; and from him that taketh away thy cloke withhold not thy coat also.
1 Thessalonians 5:15See that none render unto any one evil for evil; but alway follow after that which is good, one toward another, and toward all.
1 Peter 2:19For this is acceptable, if for conscience toward God a man endureth griefs, 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 →