1 Korinther 6:8

Schlachter Bibel

Sondern ihr übet Unrecht und Übervorteilung, und zwar an Brüdern!

Parallel Translations

Lutherbible (1912)
Sondern ihr tut Unrecht und übervorteilt, und solches an den Brüdern!

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Leviticus 19:13, Micah 2:2, Malachi 3:5, *marg. Mark 10:19, Colossians 3:25, 1 Thessalonians 4:6, James 5:4

Reciprocal: Exodus 2:13 - and he said Leviticus 19:11 - shall not Leviticus 25:14 - General Esther 1:16 - done wrong Isaiah 5:7 - he looked Jeremiah 34:9 - serve Ezekiel 45:9 - take away Matthew 5:24 - there 2 Corinthians 12:20 - debates Colossians 3:13 - quarrel

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Nay, you do wrong and defraud,.... So far were they from taking and acting up to the advice given, that instead of taking wrong, they did wrong; and instead of suffering themselves to be defrauded, they defrauded others:

and that your brethren; that were of the same faith, of the same religion, and in the same church and family: in short, neither party, not the plaintiff, nor the defendant, sought anything more or less than to wrong, trick, and defraud each other; such a sad corruption and degeneracy prevailed among them: hence the apostle thought to deal plainly and closely with them, as in the following verses.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Nay, ye do wrong ... - Instead of enduring wrong patiently and cheerfully. they were themselves guilty oi injustice and fraud.

And that your brethren - Your fellow Christians. As if they had injured those of their own family - those to whom they ought to be attached by most tender ties. The offence in such cases is aggravated, not because it is in itself any worse to injure a Christian than another man, but because it shows a deeper depravity, when a man overcomes all the ties of kindness and love, and injures those who are near to him, than it does where no such ties exist. It is for this reason that parricide, infanticide, etc. are regarded everywhere as crimes of special atrocity, because a child or a parent must have severed all the tenderest cords of virtue before it could be done.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 1 Corinthians 6:8. Nay, ye do wrong — Far from suffering, ye are the aggressors; and defraud your pious, long-suffering brethren, who submit to this wrong rather than take those methods of redressing their grievances which the spirit of Christianity forbids. Probably the apostle refers to him who had taken his father's wife.