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1 Corinthians 6:5
I speak to your shame. Is it so that there is not a wise man among you? no, not one that shall be able to judge between his brethren?
I speak to your shame. Is it so that there is not a wise man among you? no, not one that shall be able to judge between his brethren?
Verse 1 Corinthians 6:5. _IS IT SO, THAT THERE IS NOT A WISE MAN AMONG YOU?_] Have you none among yourselves that can be arbitrators of the differences which arise, that you go to the heathen tribunal...
I SPEAK TO YOUR SHAME - I declare that which is a reproach to you, that your matters of dispute are carried before pagan tribunals. IS IT SO ... - Can it be that in the Christian church - the church c...
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...
THE FOLLY OF THE LAW COURTS (1 Corinthians 6:1-8)...
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...
TO. App-104. SHAME. Greek. _entrope._ Only here and 1 Corinthians 15:34. Compare the verb in 1 Corinthians 4:14. IS IT SO. Greek. _houtos._ Emph. standing fist in the sentence. It may be rendered "H...
_I speak to your shame_ -You are not to suppose me in earnest. I only say this to shame you for the undue value you set on the things of this life. Such matters might fitly be left to the decision of...
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...
ἜΝΙ אBC, rec. ἔστιν with DEFG. ΟΥ̓ΔΕῚΣ ΣΟΦΌΣ אBC, σοφὸς οὐδείς FG, rec. σοφὸς οὐδὲ εἷς. Vulg. has _sapiens quisquam_. 5. ΠΡῸΣ ἘΝΤΡΟΠῊΝ ὙΜΙ͂Ν ΛΈΓΩ. ‘You are not to take my words literally. I only say...
_ 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...
ΈΝΤΡΟΠΉ (G1791) позор, смущение, связанное с неудачей (LN, 1:310; GELTS, 155). ΟΎΤΩΣ (G3779) так. "Неужели это дошло до такой степени, что?" "Неужели действительно правда, что?" (Lightfoot, Notes),...
A WISE MAN— If St. Paul uses this word in the sense of the _synagogue,_ it signifies a _rabbi,_ or one ordained, and so capacitated to be a judge; for such were called _wise men._ If in the sense of t...
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 sa...
APPLEBURY'S COMMENTS _Going to Court Before Pagan Judges_ (1-11) _Text_ 1 Corinthians 6:1-11. Dare any of you, having a matter against his neighbor, go to law before the unrighteous, and not before...
I speak to your shame. Is it so, that there is not a wise man among you? no, not one that shall be able to judge between his brethren? YOUR SHAME. He checks their puffed-up spirit (). To shame you...
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...
6:5 brethren! (c-30) Lit. 'between his brother [and brother].'...
_(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; and...
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...
I SPEAK TO YOUR SHAME. — Better, _I say this to cause you to feel ashamed._ From the latent irony of the previous words, the Apostle turns to ask solemnly whether it be a fact that in the whole Christ...
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...
1 Corinthians 6:4-5 _a_. 1 Corinthians 6:4 is rendered in three diff [912] ways, as (_a_) τ. ἐξουθενημένους ἐν τ. ἐκκλησίᾳ is taken to mean _the heathen iudges_, the ἄδικοι of 1 Corinthians 6:1
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 tribuna...
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...
(5) I speak to your shame. Is it so, that there is not a wise man among you? no, not one that shall be able to judge between his brethren? (5) He applies the general proposition to a particular, alwa...
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 in...
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...
“I speak to your shame: is it so that there is not a wise man among you, no not one, that shall be able to judge between his brethren! 6. But brother goeth to law with brother, and that before the unb...
(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...
5._I speak to your shame _The meaning is — “If other considerations do not influence you, let it at least be considered by you, how disgraceful it is to you that _there is not so much as one among you...
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...
I SPEAK TO YOUR SHAME,.... Not that they did set such persons to judge, but that they did not; and instead of so doing went to law with their brethren before the unjust: IS IT SO THAT THERE IS NOT A...
I speak to your shame. Is it so, that there is not a wise man among you? no, not one that shall be able to judge between his brethren? Ver. 5. _No, not one that shall be able_] Our late judge Dier, i...
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...
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...
1 CORINTHIANS 6:5. SAY THIS TO MOVE YOU TO SHAME. WHAT, CANNOT THERE BE FOUND AMONG YOU ONE WISE MAN WHO SHALL BE ABLE TO DECIDE BETWEEN HIS BRETHREN, 'I say this to move you to shame' -'He means to...
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 o...
Ver. 5,6. I do not speak this, as if I would have you make choice of the meanest persons among you to arbitrate and determine all matters that may be in difference between you; but it would be a shame...
I say this to move you to shame. [If called on as a church to judge any matter, would you choose its simpletons and numbskulls as judges? I ask this to make you ashamed, for ye do even more foolishly...
1 Corinthians 6:5 say G3004 (G5719) your G5213 shame G4314 G1791 so G3779 there G2076 (G5748) not...
‘If then you have to judge things pertaining to this life, set those to judge who are of no account in the church (or ‘do you set to judge those---'). I say this to move you to shame. Is it so that th...
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...
1 Corinthians 6:5.... IS IT SO, THAT THERE IS NOT ONE WISE MAN AMONG YOU? WHO, ETC.: ‘Abounding in gifts, and boasting of your wisdom, are ye incompetent to settle your own small disputes?' The _princ...
I SAY THIS TO MOVE YOU TO SHAME (προς εντροπην υμιν λεγω). Old word εντροπη from εντρεπω, to turn in (1 Corinthians 4:14 which see). In N.T. only here and 1 Corinthians 15:34.ONE WISE MAN (σοφος)...
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...
AT LEAST ONE WISE MAN. "With all your boasting about wisdom, you ought to be able to find one wise man!...
_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...
_Is it so that there is not a wise man among you? no, not one that shall be able to judge between his brethren?_ This is severe irony, and a tacit reproof and condemnation. Sedulius and Gregory (_Mor....
_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
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 11:14; 1 Corinthians 15:34; 1 Corinthians 3:18; 1 Corinthians 4:10;...
To your shame [π ρ ο ς ε ν τ ρ ο π η ν υ μ ι ν]. Lit., I speak to you with a view to shame; i e., to move you to shame, as Rev. See on ch. 1 Corinthians 4:14. To judge [δ ι α κ ρ ι ν α ι]. Rev., bette...
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,...
Is there not one among you, who are such admirers of wisdom, that is wise enough to decide such causes?...