What does 1 Corinthians 6:4 mean? Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse.
"If then ye have judgments of things pertaining to this life, set them to judge who are least esteemed in the church."
Verse 1 Corinthians 6:4. _THINGS PERTAINING TO THIS LIFE_] They could examine all civil cases among themselves, which they were permitted to determine without any hinderance from the heathen governmen...
YE HAVE JUDGMENTS - Causes; controversies; suits. THINGS PERTAINING TO THIS LIFE - Property, etc. SET THEM TO JUDGE ... - The verb translated set καθίζετε kathizete may be either in the imperative m...
CHAPTER 6 __ 1. Concerning Disputes before Heathen Courts. (1 Corinthians 6:1). 2. The Holiness of Believers; Their Bodies the Temples of the Holy Spirit. (1 Corinthians 6:8). Instead of settling t...
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, Christians...
When any of you has a ground of complaint against his fellow, does he dare to go to law before unrighteous men, and not before God's dedicated people? Are you not aware that God's dedicated people wil...
IF. App-118. JUDGMENTS. See 1 Corinthians 6:2. SET... TO JUDGE. Literally cause... to sit. Greek. _kathizo._ Compare Ephesians 1:20. LEAST ESTEEMED. counted as nothing. Greek. _exoutheneo._ See Act...
_judgments domes_, Wiclif. See note on 1 Corinthians 6:2. The meaning (2) seems the only admissible one here, inasmuch as Christians were not likely as yet to possess secular tribunals or to hold secu...
THE WAY TO SETTLE DISPUTES IN THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH The principle is here laid down which is to guide Christians in their lawsuits. Disputes about property are treated by the Apostle as matters of the...
_ LEGAL PROBLEMS AT CORINTH 1 CORINTHIANS 6:1-6:_ The Christians at Corinth not only were dealing with the problem of division and incest there were also legal problems. The brethren had legal matters...
ΜΈΝ ΟΎΝ вводит противопоставление: "но вы" или "нет же, вы" (RP). ΈΧΗΤΕ _praes. conj. act. от_ ΈΧ (G2192) иметь. _Conj._ в _conj._ 3 типа, предполагающем возможность условия, ΈΞΟΥΘΕΝΗΜΈΝΟΥΣPERF.pass...
IF THEN YE HAVE JUDGMENTS— _If therefore you have controversies relating to affairs of this life, do you set them to judge, who are of no esteem in the church;_—that is to say, the heathen magistrates...
BUTLER'S COMMENTS SECTION 1 Defrauders Are Not Brothers (1 Corinthians 6:1-8) 6 When one of you has a grievance against a brother, does he dare go to law before the unrighteous instead of the the s...
If then ye have judgments of things pertaining to this life, set them to judge who are least esteemed in the church. JUDGMENTS - i:e., cases for judgment. LEAST ESTEEMED - literally, those of no e...
1 It is unfortunate that our word "judge" usually takes on the sense of condemnation. The saints are not to condemn the world but to rule it during the eons. Saints in Israel will possess the kingdom...
PARAPHRASE. 'How is it that when you quarrel with one another you go before heathen judges and do not let some of the brethren decide your matter? (2) You spoke of the saints judging the world, why no...
SERVANTS OF CHRIST 1 CORINTHIANS _HILDA BRIGHT_ CHAPTER 6 CHRISTIANS AND THE LAW COURTS 6:1-8 V1 Suppose that one of you has a reason to complain against another Christian. You may take your pro...
IF THEN YE HAVE JUDGMENTS.... — Better, _If, however, you choose to have judgments to be given on matters of this life._ The last words show that the questions which are alluded to are purely worldly...
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 seemed...
§ 17. LAW-SUITS IN HEATHEN COURTS. Beside the πόρνος, amongst those to be excommunicated at Cor [887], stood the πλεονέκτης (1 Corinthians 5:11); fraud and robbery were only less rife than licentiousn...
SETTLING DIFFERENCES BETWEEN BRETHREN 1 Corinthians 6:1 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 heathen tribun...
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...
The Shame of Brother Going To Law Against Brother If they had been called upon as a congregation to judge a matter concerning this life, the Christians having the least sense and experience would not...
(4) If then ye have (c) judgments of things pertaining to this life, set them to judge who are (d) least esteemed in the church. (4) The conclusion, in which he prescribes a remedy for this wrong: th...
_Set them to judge, who are the most despised in the Church. Rather make choice of Christians of lesser parts and talents, than have recourse to infidels, who will be scandalized at the injuries and i...
III. LAWSUITS. 6:1-11 The subject of discipline, though connected with the domain of ecclesiastical life, trenched on the sphere of moral questions. We come now to the subjects which belong exclusive...
(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 judged...
As usual, the introductory words (1 Corinthians 1:1-3) of the epistle give us no little intimation of that which is to follow. The apostle speaks of himself as such "called [to be] an apostle of Jesus...
4._If you have judgments then as to things pertaining to this life _We must always keep in view what causes he is treating of; for public trials are beyond our province, and ought not to be transferre...
1 Corinthians 6:1-11 treats the subject of wrongs. It was shameful that those who were to judge the world and the angels should be incapable of judging the paltry affairs of this world. Let the least...
IF THEN YE HAVE JUDGMENTS OF THINGS PERTAINING TO THIS LIFE,.... Not judgements relating to life and death, for these were not in the power of a Jewish sanhedrim now, and much less of a Christian comm...
If then ye have judgments of things pertaining to this life, set them to judge who are least esteemed in the church. Ver. 4. _If then ye have judgments_] As the Corinthians, being many of them mercha...
The apostle, having mentioned one very great irregularity among the professors of Christianity at Corinth, proceeds now to animadvert upon another, namely, their entering into suits of law with each o...
JUDGMENTS; cases of difference to be settled. OF THINGS PERTAINING TO THIS LIFE; not requiring, therefore, for their settlement the possession of high spiritual gifts. SET THEM TO JUDGE WHO ARE LEAST...
GOING TO LAW WITH BRETHREN. The charge:...
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...
IF THEN YE HAVE TO JUDGE THINGS PERTAINING TO THIS LIFE, DO YE SET THEM TO JUDGE WHO ARE OF NO ACCOUNT IN THE CHURCH? 'If then ye have to judge things pertaining to this life' -'lit., well then, if...
1-8 Christians should not contend with one another, for they are brethren. This, if duly attended to, would prevent many law-suits, and end many quarrels and disputes. In matters of great damage to ou...
IF THEN YE HAVE JUDGMENT OF THINGS PERTAINING TO THIS LIFE, that is, if you have any cause of suing or impleading one another for things that pertain to this life, be they of what nature they will, SE...
If then ye have to judge things pertaining to this life, do ye set them to judge who are of no account in the church?...
Pseudo-Cyprian On the Glory of Martyrdom Moreover, also, the Apostle Paul says: "Be ye imitators of me, as I also am of Christ."[30]...
1 Corinthians 6:4 If G1437 then G3303 G3767 have G2192 (G5725) judgments G2922 life G982 appoint G2523 (G5719) those G5128 esteemed G1848 by G1722 church G1577 judge G1848 (G5772) you - 1 Corinthians...
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 disp...
This topic seems to have been suggested by the closing verses of the preceding chapter, about Christians having nothing to do with judging “them that are without.” ‘Yes (says the apostle), but what is...
IF THEN YE HAVE TO JUDGE THINGS PERTAINING TO THIS LIFE (βιωτικα μεν ουν κριτηρια εαν εχητε). Note emphatic position (proleptic) of βιωτικα κριτηρια (tribunals pertaining to this life, as above). ...
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 could b...
CONTENTS: Saints forbidden to go to law with each other. Sanctity of the body. The body the Lord's temple. CHARACTERS: God, Christ, Holy Spirit. CONCLUSION: Contention of Christians before the law i...
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 is...
WHO HAVE NO STANDING IN THE CHURCH? [The Greek of this verse can be translated three ways. The TEV follows Meyer, Heinrici, W & H, Tisch., et. al. The NIV follows the Vulgate, Beza, KJV, et. al. _Whit...
_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 in...
CHAPTER 6 SYNOPSIS OF THE CHAPTER i. The Apostle passes on to the subject of lawsuits and trials, and reproves the Corinthians for instituting proceedings before the heathen judges, and he declares...
_CRITICAL NOTES_ Two SECTIONS; Two TOPICS.— 1 Corinthians 6:1 1 Corinthians 6:1.—Canon Evans (_Speaker’s Commentary_) thus exhibits the verbal connection: “Deigneth any one of you (_you_ emphatic), h...
EXPOSITION 1 CORINTHIANS 6:1 _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 _audacious _defiance of Chr...
Now Paul brings up another issue, and that was the taking of a brother before the pagan courts. Dare any of you, having a matter against another, go to law before the unjust, and not before the saint...
1 Corinthians 5:12; Acts 6:2...
Judgments [κ ρ ι τ η ρ ι α]. Better, tribunals or courts, as ver. 2. If you have to hold courts for the settlement of private matters. Set [κ α θ ι ζ ε τ ε]. Seat them as judges on the tribunal. It i...
THE INDWELLING HOLY SPIRIT 1 Corinthians 6:1 INTRODUCTORY WORDS The studies in the Epistle to the Corinthians are not written to be shelved, but to be carefully studied, and followed, lest we fall,...
Them who are of no esteem in the church — That is, heathens, who, as such, could be in no esteem with the Christians....
It must be still obsreved, that the apostle, doth not go about to abolish the use of secular judgments, or condemn going to law; but only reproves the abuses that were found among them therein. BROTHE...