1 Corinthians 6:8

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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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

Cross-References

Genesis 6:12
And God saw the earth, and behold, it was corrupt, for all flesh had corrupted their way on the earth.

Genesis 6:12
And God saw the earth, and, look, it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted their way on the earth.

Genesis 6:12
When God saw that everyone on the earth did only evil,

Genesis 6:12
God saw the earth, and indeed it was ruined, for all living creatures on the earth were sinful.

Genesis 6:12
And God looked upon the earth, and behold, it was corrupt: for all flesh had corrupted his way upon the earth.

Genesis 6:12
God saw the earth, and saw that it was corrupt, for all flesh had corrupted their way on the earth.

Genesis 6:12
God looked on the earth and saw how debased and degenerate it was, for all humanity had corrupted their way on the earth and lost their true direction.

Genesis 6:12
And whanne God seiy, that the erthe was corrupt, for ech fleisch ether man hadde corrupt his weie on erthe,

Genesis 6:12
And God seeth the earth, and lo, it hath been corrupted, for all flesh hath corrupted its way on the earth.

Genesis 6:12
And God looked upon the earth and saw that it was corrupt; for all living creatures on the earth had corrupted their ways.

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.