1 Corinthians 6:2

Do not you know that Christ’s People will try the world? And if the world is to be tried by you, are you unfit to try the most trivial cases?

Twentieth Century New Testament

In The King James Version

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?

In Context

1Can it be that, when one of you has a dispute with another, he dares to have his case tried before the heathen, instead of before Christ’s People?

3Do not you know that we are to try angels — to say nothing of the affairs of this life?

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Cross References

Luke 22:30so that you may eat and drink at my table in my Kingdom, and be seated upon twelve thrones as judges of the twelve tribes of Israel.

2 Corinthians 4:18we, all the while, gazing not on what is seen, but on what is unseen; for what is seen is transient, but what is unseen is imperishable.

1 John 2:16for all that the world can offer — the gratification of the earthly nature, the gratification of the eye, the pretentious life — belongs, not to the Father, but to the world.

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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