1 Thessalonians 4:6; Colossians 3:25; James 5:4; Leviticus 19:13; Malachi 3:5; Micah 2:2; Mark 10:19
Nay, ye do wrong ... - Instead of enduring wrong patiently and cheerfully. they were themselves guilty oi injustice and fraud. And that your b...
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...
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...
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-s...
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:...
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,...
(c) 6:1-11. Christians and Litigation St. Paul reproves the Corinthians for referring their disputes about ordinary affairs to heathen judges. T...
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...
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...
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...
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...
(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...
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; an...
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....
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...
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...
Causes of Litigation Censured. A. D. 57. 1 D...
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 wro...
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...
‘No, but you yourselves do wrong and defraud your brothers.' But even worse than the bad witness of Christian brothers falling out is that in fact s...
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...
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...
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...
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...
EXPOSITION 1 Corinthians 6:1-46 Litigation before heathen courts forbidden. 1 Corinthians 6:1 Dare any of you? rather, Dare any...
The apostle's reproof:
Nay, ye do wrong, and defraud, and that your brethren. No wonder that Paul, under such circumstances, must call out shame upon them; their conduct...
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...
Nay, ye do wrong — Openly. And defraud — Privately. O how powerfully did the mystery of iniquity already work!
8 Nay, ye do wrong, and defraud, and that your brethren.