Utterly a fault; they did wrong in going to the heathen to decide their differences. They ought to have decided them by arbitration, or in some other way, among themselves. It were better even to suffer wrong, than thus to do wrong. All differences of Christians should be settled among themselves, according to principles of equity, without appealing to civil tribunals, especially those of wicked men.
Verse 1 Corinthians 6:7. _THERE IS UTTERLY A FAULT AMONG YOU_] There is a most manifest _defect_ among you, 1. Of _peaceableness_; 2. Of _brotherly_ _love_; 3. Of _mutual confidence_; and 4. Of _r...
THERE IS UTTERLY A FAULT - There is ALtogether a fault; or you are entirely wrong in this thing. THAT YE GO TO LAW ... - That is, in the sense under discussion, or before pagan magistrates. This was 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...
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...
UTTERLY. altogether. See 1 Corinthians 5:1. FAULT. Greek. _hettema._ App-128. Only here and Romans 11:12. GO TO LAW. Literally have judgments (Greek. _krima_. App-177.) ONE WITH ANOTHER. Literally...
_Why do ye not rather take wrong?_ Cf. St Matthew 5:38-42....
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...
ΚΡΊΜΑΤΑ. Here, clearly, _suits at law_. The word is not used in this sense in classical Greek. ἈΔΙΚΕΙ͂ΣΘΕ … ἈΠΟΣΤΕΡΕΙ͂ΣΘΕ. Middle, ‘permit yourselves to be wronged, defrauded.’ See Winer, _Gr. Gram._...
_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...
ΌΛΩΣ (G3654) _adv._ весьма, точно, действительно. ΉΤΤΗΜΑ (G2275) поражение. Это слово имеет юридическое значение: поражение в суде (Schlatter); здесь относится к моральному или духовному поражению (We...
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...
Now therefore there is utterly a fault among you, because ye go to law one with another. Why do ye not rather take wrong? why do ye not rather suffer yourselves to be defrauded? UTTERLY A FAULT, [ he...
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...
THERE IS UTTERLY A FAULT] RV 'Already it is altogether a defect in you.' St. Paul here ceases to employ raillery, the weapon he has used so effectively in the previous vv., and remonstrates with them...
_(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...
A FAULT. — Better, _a falling short_ of your privilege and dignity as Christians. It is the same word as is rendered “diminishing” in Romans 11:12. The Apostle in this verse goes one step farther, and...
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...
Ἤδη μὲν οὖν, “Indeed then, to begin with”: on ἤδη (_already, i.e. before litigation_), see note to 1 Corinthians 4:8. μὲν here, otherwise than in 1 Corinthians 6:4. suggests a suppressed δέ : “but ye...
§ 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;...
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...
(6) Now therefore there is utterly a (e) fault among you, because ye go to law one with another. (7) Why do ye not rather take wrong? why do ye not rather [suffer yourselves to] be defrauded? (6) Now...
[BIBLIOGRAPHY] Omnino delictum est, _Greek: ettema, a diminutive, from Greek: etton, minus, a failing, a weakness, a fault._...
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...
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...
7._Now indeed there is utterly a fault. _Here we have the _second _part of the reproof, which contains a general doctrine; for he now reproves them, not on the ground of their exposing the gospel to d...
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...
NOW THEREFORE THERE IS UTTERLY A FAULT AMONG YOU,.... Or a "defect": a want of brotherly love, or there would be no occasion to go to law at all; a want of wisdom and conduct, or proper persons would...
Now therefore there is utterly a fault among you, because ye go to law one with another. Why do ye not rather take wrong? why do ye not rather _suffer yourselves to_ be defrauded? Ver. 7. _There is u...
_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...
The apostle's reproof:...
NOW, THEREFORE, THERE IS UTTERLY A FAULT AMONG YOU BECAUSE YE GO TO LAW ONE WITH ANOTHER. WHY DO YE NOT RATHER TAKE WRONG? WHY DO YE NOT RATHER SUFFER YOURSELVES TO BE DEFRAUDED?...
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, ALREADY IT IS ALTOGETHER. DEFECT IN YOU, THAT YE HAVE LAWSUITS ONE WITH ANOTHER. WHY NOT RATHER TAKE WRONG? WHY NOT RATHER BE DEFRAUDED? 'already it is altogether. defect in you' -'Without goin...
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...
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Nay, already [before ye even begin civil action] _it is altogether a defect in you, that ye have lawsuits_ [more correctly, matter worthy of litigation] _one with another_. [Here Paul emphasizes the r...
Clement of Alexandria Stromata Book VII And how shall one "judge" the apostate "angels," who has become himself an apostate from that forgetfulness of injuries, which is according to the Gospel? "Why...
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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 already it is altogether a defeat (or ‘defect') for you that you have lawsuits with one another. Why do you not rather accept wrong? Why not rather be defrauded?' Indeed it demonstrates to the wor...
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 6:7.... WHY NOT RATHER TAKE WRONG? WHY NOT RATHER BE DEFRAUDED? like your Master, submitting to felt wrong (1 Peter 2:23; and see Matthew 5:40;...
NAY, ALREADY IT IS ALTOGETHER A DEFECT AMONG YOU (ηδη μεν ουν ολως ηττημα υμιν εστιν). "Indeed therefore there is to you already (to begin with, ηδη, before any question of courts) wholly defeat." H...
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...
SHOWS THAT YOU HAVE FAILED COMPLETELY. The lawsuits were only symptoms of something far more serious. There was unchristian resentment; but even more, there was antisocial behavior on the part of the...
_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...
_Now, therefore, there us utterly a fault among you. Fault_ Theophylact renders _condemnation and shame._ It is simpler to take it as a defect of shortcoming, as when a man is overcome by another his...
_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 Peter 2:19; 1 Peter 3:9; 1 Thessalonians 5:15; Hosea 10:2; James 4:
Now therefore [η δ η μ ε ν ο υ ν]. Men oun nay, as in ver. 4, at once looks back to the preceding thought, and continues it, bringing under special consideration the fact that brother goes to law with...
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,...
Indeed there is a fault, that ye quarrel with each other at all, whether ye go to law or no. Why do ye not rather suffer wrong — All men cannot or will not receive this saying. Many aim only at this,...