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Mark Dunagan Commentaries

1 Corinthians 6:10

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 serious this problem was. There were three kinds of theft which were punishable by death.' (Barclay pp. 58-59) 'And it doesn't matter how the robbery takes place. with or without legal sanction.' (McGuiggan p. 72)

'revilers' -'someone with. "smart mouth", who enjoys, whatever his excuse is, abusing people with his tongue.' (McGuiggan p. 72)

'shall inherit the kingdom of God' -repeated (1 Corinthians 6:9). NOW OR EVER!

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  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    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...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Barclay Daily Study Bible (NT)

    THE FOLLY OF THE LAW COURTS (1 Corinthians 6:1-8)...

  • Barclay Daily Study Bible (NT)

    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...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    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._...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _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...

  • Cambridge Greek Testament for Schools and Colleges Commentary

    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...

  • Cambridge Greek Testament for Schools and Colleges Commentary

    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...

  • Charles Box Commentaries

    _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...

  • Charles Rose Commentaries

    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...

  • Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

    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...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    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...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    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...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    _NOR THIEVES, NOR COVETOUS, NOR DRUNKARDS, NOR REVILERS, NOR EXTORTIONERS, SHALL INHERIT THE KINGDOM OF GOD._ No JFB commentary on this verse....

  • Concordant Commentary on the New Testament by A. E. Knoch

    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...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    _(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...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    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...

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    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...

  • Expositor's Greek Testament (Nicoll)

    § 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;...

  • Expositor's Greek Testament (Nicoll)

    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...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    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...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    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...

  • Gary Hampton Commentaries

    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...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Godet's commentary on Luke, John, Romans, 1 Corinthians

    “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,...

  • Godet's commentary on Luke, John, Romans, 1 Corinthians

    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...

  • Godet's commentary on Luke, John, Romans, 1 Corinthians

    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...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    (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,...

  • Introductory Lectures - Commentary by William Kelly

    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...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    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...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    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...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    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...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _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...

  • Justin Edwards' Family Bible New Testament (1851)

    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...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    A warning to the immoral Christians:...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    NOR THIEVES, NOR COVETOUS, NOR DRUNKARDS, NOR REVILERS, NOR EXTORTIONERS, SHALL INHERIT THE KINGDOM OF GOD....

  • Leslie M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    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...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    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...

  • McGarvey and Pendleton Commentaries

    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...

  • NT Verse References in the Ante-Nicene Fathers

    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...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    1 Corinthians 6:10 nor G3777 thieves G2812 nor G3777 covetous G4123 nor G3777 drunkards G3183 nor G3756 revilers...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    ‘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...

  • Philip Schaff's Popular Commentary on the NT (4 vols)

    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...

  • Philip Schaff's Popular Commentary on the NT (4 vols)

    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....

  • Spurgeon's Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    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...

  • The Bible Study New Testament

    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 THES...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _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...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    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

  • The Great Commentary of Cornelius à Lapide

    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...

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    _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...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    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

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    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...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    1 Corinthians 5:11; 1 Peter 4:15; 1 Thessalonians 4:6; Ephesians 4:28;...

  • Wells of Living Water Commentary

    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,...

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