1 Corinthians 6:3

Contextual Overview

¹ When one of you has something against someone else in your group, why do you go to the judges in the law courts? The way they think and live is wrong. So why do you let them decide who is right? Why don't you let God's holy people decide who is right? ¹ When one of you has a grievance against a brother, does he dare go to law before the unrighteous instead of the saints? ¹ How dare one of you havinge busines with another goo to lawe vnder the wicked and not rather vnder the sainctes? ¹ Dare any of you, having a matter against his neighbor, go to law before the unrighteous, and not before the holy ones? ¹ When one of you has a complaint against another, does he dare to take it before the unrighteous and not before the saints? ¹ Does any one of you, when he has a case against his neighbor, dare to go to law before the unrighteous and not before the saints? ¹ When you have something against another Christian, how can you bring yourself to go before judges who are not right with God? Why do you not let God's people decide who is right? ¹ Dare any of you, having a matter against his neighbor, go to law before the unrighteous, and not before the saints? ¹ Dare any of you, having a matter against another, go to law before the unjust, and not before the saints? ¹ When one of you has a grievance against another, does he dare go to law before the unrighteous instead of the saints?

Bible Verse Review
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judge: Matthew 25:41, 2 Peter 2:4, Jude 1:6

pertain: 1 Corinthians 6:4, Psalms 17:14, Luke 8:14, Luke 21:34, 2 Timothy 2:4, 2 Timothy 4:10

Reciprocal: Job 21:22 - he judgeth Psalms 50:5 - my saints Psalms 149:9 - this honour Isaiah 40:28 - thou not known Ezekiel 23:36 - wilt Daniel 7:22 - judgment Obadiah 1:21 - to judge Zechariah 3:7 - judge Matthew 19:28 - ye also Luke 22:30 - and sit John 16:11 - judgment Romans 6:3 - Know 1 Corinthians 3:16 - Know 1 Corinthians 6:9 - Know 1 Corinthians 15:19 - this Revelation 2:26 - to him will I give Revelation 3:21 - to sit Revelation 20:4 - thrones

Cross-References

Genesis 6:1
When man began to multiply on the face of the land and daughters were born to them,

Genesis 6:1
And it came to pass, when man began to multiply on the face of the ground, and daughters were born to them,

Genesis 6:1
The number of people on earth began to grow, and daughters were born to them.

Genesis 6:1
When humankind began to multiply on the face of the earth, and daughters were born to them,

Genesis 6:1
And it came to pass, when men began to multiply on the face of the earth, and daughters were born to them,

Genesis 6:1
It happened, when men began to multiply on the surface of the ground, and daughters were born to them,

Genesis 6:1
Now it happened, when men began to multiply on the face of the land, and daughters were born to them,

Genesis 6:1
And whanne men bigunnen to be multiplied on erthe, and hadden gendrid douytris,

Genesis 6:1
And it cometh to pass that mankind have begun to multiply on the face of the ground, and daughters have been born to them,

Genesis 6:1
Now when men began to multiply on the face of the earth and daughters were born to them,

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Know ye not that we shall judge angels,.... Meaning not the ministers of the Gospel, and pastors of churches, called "angels", Revelation 1:20 whose doctrines are examined, tried, and judged by the saints, according to the word of God; nor the good angels, who, were it possible that they could, or should publish a Gospel contrary to what has been preached by the apostle, would be contradicted, condemned, and accursed by him, see Galatians 1:8 but the evil angels, the devil and his angels: and this is to be understood not of their future final judgment and condemnation at the last day, when saints will subscribe unto, and approve of the sentence pronounced upon them, and will triumph over them in their destruction; but of the judgment of them, and of their ejection out of the Gentile world, out of their oracles, idols, and idol temples, to which Christ refers, John 12:31 and calls the judgment of this world, and the casting out of the prince of it by the ministry of his apostles; and which was now already begun, and ere long would be fully accomplished: accordingly the Syriac version renders it, "know ye not

דלמלאכא דינינן, that we are about to judge angels?" and the Arabic, "know ye not that we judge angels?" from whence the apostle infers very justly,

how much more things that pertain to this life? this animal life; to the trade and business of life; to pecuniary matters, to estates and possessions in this world, about which differences may arise between one saint and another.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Shall judge angels - All the angels that shall be judged, good or bad. Probably the reference is to fallen angels, as there is no account that holy angels will then undergo a trial. The sense is, “Christians will be qualified to see the justice of even the sentence which is pronounced on fallen angels. They will be able so to embrace and comprehend the nature of law, and the interests of justice, as to see the propriety of their condemnation. And if they can so far enter into these important and eternal relations, assuredly they ought to be regarded as qualified to discern the nature of justice ‘among men,’ and to settle the unimportant differences which may arise in the church.” Or, perhaps, this may mean that the saints shall in the future world be raised to a rank in some respects more elevated than even the angels in heaven. (Prof. Stuart.) In what respects they will be thus elevated, if this is the true interpretation, can be only a matter of conjecture. It may be supposed that it will be because they have been favored by being interested in the plan of salvation - a plan that has done so much to honor God; and that “to have been” thus saved by the “immediate and painful” intervention of the Son of God, will be a higher honor than all the privileges which beings can enjoy who are innocent themselves.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 1 Corinthians 6:3. Know ye not that we shall judge angels? — Dr. Lightfoot observes that "the apostle does not say here, as he said before, the saints shall judge the angels, but WE shall judge them. By angels, all confess that demons are intended; but certainly all saints, according to the latitude with which that word is understood, i.e. all who profess Christianity, shall not judge angels. Nor is this judging of angels to be understood of the last day; but the apostle speaks of the ministers of the Gospel, himself and others, who, by the preaching of the Gospel, through the power of Christ, should spoil the devils of their oracles and their idols, should deprive them of their worship, should drive them out of their seats, and strip them of their dominion. Thus would God subdue the whole world under the Christian power, so that Christian magistrates should judge men, and Christian ministers judge devils."