“ Nay, ye do wrong, and defraud, and that your brethren. ”
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...
The Scandal of Christians Suing each other before Heathen Tribunals. Paul has prepared for his next rebuke by his reference to the function of the church to judge its own members. But alas, Christi...
Nay . But. do wrong . act unjustly. Greek. adikeo , as above.
8. But ye do injury. Hence we see for what reason he has inveighed against them with so much bitterness — because there prevailed among them such a base desire of gain, that they did not eve...
Nay, ye do wrong, and defraud, and that your brethren. Nay, ye do wrong - Far from suffering, ye are the aggressors; and defraud your pious, long-suffering brethren, who submit to this wrong rather...
Nay, ye do wrong— That the wrong here spoken of was the fornicator's taking and keeping his father's wife, the words of St. Paul, 2 Corinthians 7:12 instancing this very wrong, are a sufficient...
Nay, ye do wrong, and defraud, and that your brethren. Ye - emphatic. Ye, whom your Lord commanded to return good for evil, on the contrary, "do wrong (by taking) and defraud" (by retaining w...
(c) 6:1-11. Christians and Litigation St. Paul reproves the Corinthians for referring their disputes about ordinary affairs to heathen judges. The subject was suggested by rumours he had heard;...
Nay, ye do wrong. — Better, No, but you yourselves do wrong.
Chapter 9 ON GOING TO LAW ST. PAUL here gives his judgment on the litigiousness of the Corinthians. The Greeks, in general, were fond of going to law. They were not only quarrelsome, but they see...
Settling Differences between Brethren 1 Corinthians 6:1-11 The Apostle was clearly of the opinion that it was wiser for a Christian to bear injustice and wrong than to go to law before a heathe...
The apostle now passed to another dereliction. Disputes in the church were being submitted to heathen tribunals. What these matters were we are not told. The teaching of the apostle is clear, and has...
(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 judge...
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,...
Nay, ye do wrong, and defraud, and that your brethren. Ver. 8. Nay, you do wrong ] In person and name. And defraud ] Of goods and estate. And that your brethren ] Which very name should...
Now therefore But, indeed, there is plainly a fault in you, whoever may have the right on his side; that ye go to law with one another Or that ye quarrel with one another at all, whether ye go to...
In this chapter there is another matter raised in which the Corinthians had not been using proper judgment. No individual is singled out here, but the strong reproof of the apostle is for any who had...
Causes of Litigation Censured. A. D. 57. 1 Dare any of you, having a matter against another, g...
The apostle riseth higher in his charge against them; he had before only charged them for want of self-denial, that they could not bear or suffer wrong; he now chargeth them for doing wrong and defra...
Christians Are Not To Go To Court Against Their Fellow-Christians (6:1-9a). The idea that the church judges internal matters like sin leads on to the idea that the church can also act as judge in...
CRITICAL NOTES Two SECTIONS; Two TOPICS.— 1 Corinthians 6:1-20 1 Corinthians 6:1-8 .—Canon Evans ( Speaker’s Commentary ) thus exhibits the verbal connection: “Deigneth any one of you ( you e...
1. Dare any of you, having a matter against another, go to law before the unjust, and not before the saints? In those days, the courts of law were utterly unjust. It was all a matter of who coul...
1 Corinthians 6:1 . Dare any of you go to law before the unjust? He whose cause is just appeals to equity, but he who does his neighbour wrong is vexatious. In England, our judges, after the cause...
Dare any of you, having a matter against another, go to law before the unjust? On going to law The Greeks were not only quarrelsome, but derived an excitement pleasant to their frivolous nature...
EXPOSITION 1 Corinthians 6:1-46 Litigation before heathen courts forbidden. 1 Corinthians 6:1 Dare any of you? rather, Dare any one of you? It is in St. Paul's view an audacio...
The apostle's reproof:
1 Thessalonians 4:6 ; Colossians 3:25 ; James 5:4 ; Leviticus 19:13 ; Malachi 3:5 ; Micah 2:2 ; Mark 10:19
The Indwelling Holy Spirit 1 Corinthians 6:1-20 INTRODUCTORY WORDS The studies in the Epistle to the Corinthians are not written to be shelved, but to be carefully studied, and followed, lest...
Nay, ye do wrong — Openly. And defraud — Privately. O how powerfully did the mystery of iniquity already work!