Who rob. Who break in and steal. Greedy. Covetous persons. Drunkards. The Bible severely condemns drunkenness. Slander. Compare Matthew 5:22 and note. Thieves. Extortioners, blackmailers. None of these. To gain the favor of the Greeks, the false teacher had taught that opulence and immorality were permitted by the gospel; and he had used all the standard arguments to justify his claim. Paul makes it plain that this is not true!
NOR COVETOUS; - See the note at 1 Corinthians 5:10. It is remarkable that the apostle always ranks “the covetous” with the most abandoned classes of people. NOR REVILERS - The same word which in 1 Cor...
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)...
Are you not aware that the unrighteous will not inherit the Kingdom of God? Make no mistake--neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor sensualists, nor homosexuals, nor thieves, nor rapa...
THIEVES. Greek. _kleptes._ See John 10:1. COVETOUS, &C. See 1Co 5:10, 1 Corinthians 5:11. NOR. The three last occurances are Greek. _ou._...
_nor covetous_ See note on ch. 1 Corinthians 5:10. _nor drunkards, nor revilers_ Here, as in ch. 1 Corinthians 5:11, where the same word is translated _railer_, we have the inevitable conjunction bet...
ΠΛΕΟΝΈΚΤΑΙ. See note on ch. 1 Corinthians 5:10. ΜΈΘΥΣΟΙ, ΛΟΊΔΟΡΟΙ. Here, as in ch. 1 Corinthians 5:11, where the latter word is translated _railer_ in A.V., we have the inevitable conjunction between...
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...
_CHRISTIANS BELONG TO GOD 1 CORINTHIANS 6:9-14:_ Those that are saved are changed people. Before their conversion some of the Corinthians had been, "fornicators, idolaters, adulterers, effeminate, abu...
ΚΛΈΠΤΗΣ (G2812) вор, грабитель, ΠΛΕΟΝΈΚΤΗΣ (G4123) тот, кто хочет иметь все больше и больше, и не остановится ни перед чем для выполнения своих желаний (_см._ 1 Corinthians 5:10). ΜΈΘΥΣΟΣ (G3183) пь...
DISCOURSE: 1958 GOD’S MERCY TO THE VILEST SINNERS 1 Corinthians 6:9. Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adu...
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...
BUTLER'S COMMENTS SECTION 2 Debauched Are Not Brothers (1 Corinthians 6:9-11) 9 Do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived; neither the immoral, nor...
_NOR THIEVES, NOR COVETOUS, NOR DRUNKARDS, NOR REVILERS, NOR EXTORTIONERS, SHALL INHERIT THE KINGDOM OF GOD._ No JFB commentary on this verse....
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. '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 and defraud your brethren. (9, 10) After all, in the e...
_(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...
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...
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...
§ 18. WARNING TO IMMORAL CHRISTIANS. Behind the scandal of the law-suits there lay a deeper mischief in their _cause_. They were immediately due to unchristian resentment on the part of the aggrieved;...
On ἤ οὐκ οἴδατε; see note to 1 Corinthians 6:2. The wrongers of their brethren are surely unaware of the fact that “wrong-doers (ἄδικοι) will not inherit God's kingdom” (which nevertheless they profes...
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...
Becoming A Christian Means Changing Relationships Those in the church at Corinth needed to remember that those wronging others would not see heaven. Sin will be punished (Galatians 6:7-8). Paul then w...
Defraud....your brethren. That is, you still make yourselves much more guilty by the injustices done to one another: for the unjust, and all they who are guilty of such crimes as I have mentioned, sha...
“Or know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind,...
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...
Provisionally the apostle had passed over in silence the fact itself of the discussion of selfish interests between Christians, to condemn only their having recourse to the judicial intervention of he...
(9) Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind,...
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...
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...
NOR THIEVES,.... Who take away another man's property, secret or openly, by fraud or force. NOR COVETOUS: insatiable, in the lust of uncleanness; or greedy of worldly gain, bent upon increasing their...
Nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God. Ver. 10. _Nor thieves, nor covetous_] These two be fitly set together, as near akin; so are...
_Know ye not_ With all your boasted knowledge; _that the unrighteous_ That is, not only the _unjust_, but those destitute of true righteousness and holiness, comprehending the various classes of sinne...
The dishonest, the unjust, the impure, and those who seek wealth, honor, or pleasure as the chief good, whatever their professions, or to whatever church they may externally belong, if they continue s...
A warning to the immoral Christians:...
NOR THIEVES, NOR COVETOUS, NOR DRUNKARDS, NOR REVILERS, NOR EXTORTIONERS, SHALL INHERIT THE KINGDOM OF GOD....
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...
NOR THIEVES, NOR COVETOUS, NOR DRUNKARDS, NOR REVILERS, NOR EXTORTIONERS, SHALL INHERIT THE KINGDOM OF GOD. 'thieves' -'The ancient world was cursed with them...The state of the law shows how seriou...
9-11 The Corinthians are warned against many great evils, of which they had formerly been guilty. There is much force in these inquiries, when we consider that they were addressed to a people puffed...
NOR THIEVES; nor such as take away the goods of their neighbours clandestinely, or by violence, without their consent or any just authority. NOR COVETOUS; nor persons who discover themselves excessive...
nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God. [Paul here accords with James that faith without works is dead (James 2:17). Our highest pri...
Origen Against Celsus Book VIII and it is said that "revilers shall not inherit the kingdom of God."[84] Origen Against Celsus Book VIII " Now to these statements I would answer that we revile no on...
1 Corinthians 6:10 nor G3777 thieves G2812 nor G3777 covetous G4123 nor G3777 drunkards G3183 nor G3756 revilers...
‘Do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the Kingly Rule of God?' Do they not realise in all this that those who behave unjustly or wrongly thereby reveal that they are disqualified from...
1 Corinthians 6:10. NOR THIEVES, ETC. 1 Corinthians 6:11. AND SUCH WERE SOME OF YOU. Not all but only “some” of his converts are thus spoken of; and when he says of them that “such” they were, he simp...
From wrong-doing in one particular the apostle is now led to speak of wrong-doing in its widest sense, but emphatically of that form of it already dealt with in part....
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...
_Know ye not Shall the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God?_ PERSISTENT SELF-DECEPTION Sometimes we persistently deceive ourselves. We insist upon pursuing a policy for our benefit which...
1 CORINTHIANS—NOTE ON 1 CORINTHIANS 6:9 Paul’s use of the word UNRIGHTEOUS (the same Greek word discussed in the note on vv. 1 Corinthians 6:7) imp
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_ TRANSITIONAL SECTION.— 1 Corinthians 6:9 1 Corinthians 6:9.—Query, is the particular “_wrong_” and “_defrauding_” in 1 Corinthians 6:8 connected with...
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 5:11; 1 Peter 4:15; 1 Thessalonians 4:6; Ephesians 4:28;...
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,...