Nay, but ye yourselves do wrong, and defraud, and that your brethren. [Far from enduring wrong and obeying Christ (Matthew 5:40; 1 Peter 2:22; comp. Proverbs 20:22), they were actually perpetrating wrong upon their brethren. In view of this flagrant wickedness Paul proceeds to warn them of the results of wickedness, and of their professed repentance as to it.]
Verse 1 Corinthians 6:8. _NAY, YE DO WRONG_] Far from suffering, ye are the aggressors; and defraud your pious, long-suffering brethren, who submit to this wrong rather than take those methods of redr...
NAY, YE DO WRONG ... - Instead of enduring wrong patiently and cheerfully. they were themselves guilty oi injustice and fraud. AND THAT YOUR BRETHREN - Your fellow Christians. As if they had injured t...
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...
THE FOLLY OF THE LAW COURTS (1 Corinthians 6:1-8)...
NAY. But. DO WRONG. act unjustly. Greek. _adikeo_, as above....
_Nay, you do wrong, and defraud, and that_(your) _brethren_ Not only are you not willing to suffer injury, but you inflict it, and you inflict it upon those with whom you are conjoined in relations as...
ἈΛΛᾺ ὙΜΕΙ͂Σ�. Not only are you not willing to suffer injury, but you inflict it, and you inflict it upon those with whom you are conjoined in relations as affectionate as the ties of blood. ‘One is yo...
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...
_WRONG THOUGH THEY WERE RIGHT 1 CORINTHIANS 6:7-8:_ Paul wanted it understood that their going to law before unbelievers was contrary to the spirit of Christianity. These brethren were utterly wrong o...
ΎΜΕΪ́Σ (G4771) вы! Эмфатическое, ΆΔΙΚΕΪ́ΤΕ _praes. ind. act. от_ ΆΔΙΚΈΩ (G91) винить кого-л. (_см._ 1 Corinthians 6:7). Обе формы _praes._ указывают на развивающееся действие, ΚΑΊ ΤΟΎΤΟ и притом ...
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 7:12 instancing this very _wrong,_ are a sufficient evid...
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 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...
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, "do wrong (by taking) and defraud" (by retaining what i...
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...
_(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. '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...
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...
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 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;...
ἀλλὰ ὑμεῖς κ. τ. λ.: “Nay, but _you_ commit wrong and robbery this too (_cf._ 6) upon your brothers!” Mr [951] reads this, like the parl [952] ἀλλὰ clause of 1 Corinthians 6:6, as a further question;...
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...
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...
But there is more: to account for a lawsuit, there is needed something else than the lack of charity on the one hand; there must be a graver want still on the other, the want of justice. To speak of m...
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...
“Nay, already it is altogether a defect in you that ye have lawsuits one with another. Why not rather take wrong? why not rather be defrauded? 8. Nay but ye yourselves do wrong and defraud, and that y...
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...
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 such a base desire of gain, that they did not even refrain...
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...
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; and instead of suffering themselves to be defrauded, th...
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. _ And that your brethren_] Which very name should char...
_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 quarrel with one another at all, whether ye go to...
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 is disgraceful and altogether unbecoming that of meek...
The apostle's reproof:...
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...
NAY, BUT YE YOURSELVES DO WRONG, AND DEFRAUD, AND THAT YOUR BRETHREN. 'but ye yourselves do wrong' -Far from enduring wrong (Matthew 5:40; 1 Peter 2:22), or forfeiting "their rights" for others, the...
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...
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 wrong; he now chargeth them for doing wrong and defrau...
1 Corinthians 6:8 No G235 you G5210 wrong G91 (G5719) and G2532 cheat G650 (G5719) and G2532 things...
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...
‘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 some of them are actually using the law to defraud th...
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...
NAY, BUT YE YOURSELVES DO WRONG AND DEFRAUD (αλλα υμεις αδικειτε κα αποστερειτε). "But (adversative αλλα, on the contrary) you (emphatic) do the wronging and the robbing" (active voices) "and that...
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...
EVEN YOUR VERY BROTHERS. We are ONE in Christ. This makes it even more sinful when we destroy each other!...
_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...
1 CORINTHIANS—NOTE ON 1 CORINTHIANS 6:7 SUFFER WRONG.... WRONG. These terms translate the same Greek verb. Paul used the adjectival form of this verb in v....
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
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 Thessalonians 4:6; Colossians 3:25; James 5:4; Leviticus 19:13;...
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,...
Nay, ye do wrong — Openly. And defraud — Privately. O how powerfully did the mystery of iniquity already work!...