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? There is utterly a fault among you - There is a most manifest defect among you,
1. Of peaceableness;
2. Of brotherly love;
3. Of mutual confidence; and
4. Of reverence for God, and concern for the honor of his cause.
Why do ye not rather take wrong? - Better suffer an injury than take a method of redressing yourselves which must injure your own peace, and greatly dishonor the cause of God.