1 Corinthians 6:5

I speak it to your shame. What! is there not one wise man among you, that is able to judge between his bretheren?

1770 John Worsley NT

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

4Therefore if ye have controversies about the things of this life, do ye set them to judge, who are despised by the church?

6But one brother goeth to law with another, and this before infidels.

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Cross References

1 Corinthians 3:18Let no one deceive himself: if any among you seem to be wise in this world, let him become a fool, that he may be truly wise.

1 Corinthians 4:14I do not write these things to shame you, but as my beloved children I admonish you:

1 Corinthians 15:34Behave soberly, as ye ought to do, and sin not: for some of you have not the knowledge of God; to your shame I speak it.

James 3:13Is there any wise and understanding man among you? let him shew his works by a good conversation in the meekness of 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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