1 Corinthians 6:7

1 Peter 2:19-23; 1 Peter 3:9; 1 Thessalonians 5:15; Hosea 10:2; James 4:1-3; Luke 6:29; Matthew 5:39-41; Proverbs 2:5; Proverbs 2:8-10; Proverbs 20:22; Romans 12:17-19

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Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

There is utterly a fault - There is ALtogether a fault; or you are entirely wrong in this thing. That ye go to law ... - That is, in the sens...
Arno Geneva Study Bible

(6) Now therefore there is utterly a (e) fault among you, because ye go to law one with another. (7) Why do ye not rather take wrong? why do ye not r...
Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

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...
Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

utterly . altogether. See 1 Corinthians 5:1 . fault . Greek. hettema. App-128. Only here and Romans 11:12 . go to law . Literally have judgm...
Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

7. Now indeed there is utterly a fault. Here we have the second part of the reproof, which contains a general doctrine; for he now reprov...
Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Now therefore there is utterly a fault among you, because ye go to law one with another. Why do ye not rather take wrong? why do ye not rather suffe...
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Now therefore there is utterly a fault among you, because ye go to law one with another. Why do ye not rather take wrong? why do ye not rather su...
Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

(c) 6:1-11. Christians and Litigation St. Paul reproves the Corinthians for referring their disputes about ordinary affairs to heathen judges. T...
Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

There is utterly a fault] RV 'Already it is altogether a defect in you.' St. Paul here ceases to employ raillery, the weapon he has used so effecti...
Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Paraphrase. 'But the fault lies deeper than this, for you should have no such disputes at all. Far better be wronged and defrauded (8) than wrong a...
Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

A fault. — Better, a falling short of your privilege and dignity as Christians. It is the same word as is rendered “diminishing” in Romans 11:12...
Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

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...
Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

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 inj...
G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

The apostle now passed to another dereliction. Disputes in the church were being submitted to heathen tribunals. What these matters were we are not t...
Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

(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 shal...
John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Now therefore there is utterly a fault among you ,.... Or a "defect": a want of brotherly love, or there would be no occasion to go to law at all; a...
John Trapp Complete Commentary

Now therefore there is utterly a fault among you, because ye go to law one with another. Why do ye not rather take wrong? why do ye not rather suffe...
Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

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...
L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

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 th...
Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Causes of Litigation Censured. A. D. 57. 1 D...
Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

See Poole on " 1 Corinthians 6:6 "
Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

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...
Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

‘No already it is altogether a defeat (or ‘defect') for you that you have lawsuits with one another. Why do you not rather accept wrong? Why not rath...
Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

CRITICAL NOTES Two SECTIONS; Two TOPICS.— 1 Corinthians 6:1-20 1 Corinthians 6:1-8 .—Canon Evans ( Speaker’s Commentary ) thus exhibits the ve...
Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

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 we...
Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

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...
The Biblical Illustrator

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 derive...
The Complete Pulpit Commentary

EXPOSITION 1 Corinthians 6:1-46 Litigation before heathen courts forbidden. 1 Corinthians 6:1 Dare any of you? rather, Dare any...
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The apostle's reproof:
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Now, therefore, there is utterly a fault among you because ye go to law one with another. Why do ye not rather take wrong? Why do ye not rather suff...
Wells of Living Water Commentary

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...
Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Indeed there is a fault, that ye quarrel with each other at all, whether ye go to law or no. Why do ye not rather suffer wrong — All men cannot or...

⁷ Now therefore there is utterly a fault among you, because ye go to law one with another. Why do ye not rather take wrong? why do ye not rather suffer yourselves to be defrauded?

Related Commentaries of 1 Corinthians 6:7

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Arno Geneva Study Bible

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

John Trapp Complete Commentary

Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

The Biblical Illustrator

The Complete Pulpit Commentary

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Wells of Living Water Commentary

Wesley's Explanatory Notes

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