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CHAPTER VI.
_The Corinthians are reproved for their litigious disposition;_
_brother going to law with brother, and that before the_
_heathen_, 1-6.
_They should suffer wrong rather than do any_,...
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DARE ANY OF YOU - The reasons why the apostle introduced this subject
here may have been:
* That he had mentioned the subject of judging 1 Corinthians 5:13,
and that naturally suggested the topic wh...
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CHAPTER 6
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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...
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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...
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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...
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THE FOLLY OF THE LAW COURTS (1 Corinthians 6:1-8)...
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ANY. App-123.
AGAINST. App-104.
ANOTHER. the other. App-124.
GO TO LAW. Literally be judged. App-122.
BEFORE. App-104.
UNJUST. Greek. _adikos._ See Acts 24:15 and compare App-128.
SAINTS. See Ac...
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1 Corinthians 6:1-11. The way to settle disputes in the Christian
Church
1. _Dare any of you, having a matter against another_ The principle is
here laid down which is to guide Christians in their law...
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ΤΟΛΜΑ͂Ι. The word is a strong one, expressive of what St Paul
felt to be the grave evil of a contentious spirit in Christian men.
ΤΙΣ. Some particular person or persons are in St Paul’s mind. It
is n...
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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...
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_ 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...
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ΤΟΛΜΆ _praes. ind. act. от_ ΤΟΛΜΆΩ (G5111)
осмеливаться. _Praes._ указывает на
текущее действие,
ΠΡΆΓΜΑ (G4229) _асс. sing._ дело, судебное
разбирательство. Некоторые считают,
что дело в 1 Кор. 6 — э...
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BEFORE THE UNJUST, AND NOT BEFORE THE SAINTS— The heathen judges, as
St. Paul here in effect declares, were generally unjust; Christians at
that time were generally good, righteous, and holy men: ther...
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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...
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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...
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Dare any of you, having a matter against another, go to law before
the unjust, and not before the saints?
DARE - implying treason against Christian brotherhood.
BEFORE THE UNJUST. Gentile judges...
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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...
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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...
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VI.
(1) DARE ANY OF YOU. — Having rebuked the Corinthian Christians for
any attempt to judge those who are outside the Church — _i.e.,_ the
heathen — St. Paul now insists, on the other hand, on the im...
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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...
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Τολμᾷ τις ὑμῶν κ. τ. λ.; “Does any one of you
dare?”etc. “notatur læsa majestas Christianorum” (Bg [889]):
τολμᾶν, _sustinere, non erubescere_. This also was matter of
common knowledge, like the crime...
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§ 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...
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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...
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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...
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Judging Matters Between Brethren
Jesus instructed his followers to go to the brother who sinned against
them and tell him privately in the hope he would be restored. "But if
he will not hear you, take...
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Dare (1) (a) any of you, having a matter against another, go to law
(b) before the unjust, (2) and not before the saints?
(1) The third question is of civil judgments. Whether it is lawful for
one of...
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Go to law before the unjust. St. Paul here dissuades the new
Christians from carrying their differences and causes about their
temporal concerns before judges who were infidels, especially seeing
the...
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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...
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“Dare any of you, having a matter against another, go to law before
the unjust, and not before the saints?”
The word τολμᾶ, _dares he_, heads this passage, exactly because
it appeals vigorously to Chr...
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CONTENTS
The Apostle opens this Chapter, with giving Directions to the Church,
how to manage their Disputes without the Law. He closeth the Chapter
with a short, but very blessed Account, that the Bo...
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(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...
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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...
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Here, he begins to reprove another fault among the Corinthians — an
excessive fondness for litigation, which took its rise from avarice.
Now, this reproof consists of two parts. The _first _is, that b...
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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...
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DARE ANY OF YOU, HAVING A MATTER AGAINST ANOTHER,...., Any thing in
difference, an action, cause, or suit. The apostle having dispatched
the affair of the incestuous person, and blamed this church for...
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Dare any of you, having a matter against another, go to law before the
unjust, and not before the saints?
Ver. 1. _Go to law before the unjust_] All unbelievers are, 1. Void
of Christ's righteousness...
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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...
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THE UNJUST; heathen magistrates, the same as "unbelievers," verse 1
Corinthians 6:6....
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DARE ANY OF YOU, HAVING A MATTER AGAINST ANOTHER, GO TO LAW BEFORE THE
UNJUST AND NOT BEFORE THE SAINTS?...
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GOING TO LAW WITH BRETHREN.
The charge:...
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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...
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DARE ANY OF YOU, HAVING. MATTER AGAINST HIS NEIGHBOR, GO TO LAW BEFORE
THE UNRIGHTEOUS, AND NOT BEFORE THE SAINTS?
'Dare' -'does not express the boldness of the act involved but the
lack of shame th...
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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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1 CORINTHIANS CHAPTER 6 1 CORINTHIANS 6:1 The Corinthians are reproved
for bringing their controversies before heathen judges, which they
ought to decide among themselves. 1 CORINTHIANS 6:7 There woul...
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Dare any of you, having a matter against his neighbor, go to law
before the unrighteous, and not before the saints? [1. Division, 2.
Incest, 3. Litigation: such is the order of Paul's rebukes. With
re...
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Clement of Alexandria Stromata Book VII
For in the first Epistle to the Corinthians the divine apostle says:
"Dare any of you, having a matter against the other, go to law before
the unrighteous, and...
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1 Corinthians 6:1 Dare G5111 (G5719) any G5100 you G5216 having G2192
(G5723) matter G4229 against G4314 an
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‘Dare any of you, having a matter against a fellow Christian, go to
law before the unrighteous and not before those who are holy (‘the
saints')?'
‘Having a matter.' The use of the middle voice might...
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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...
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1 Corinthians 6:1. DARE ANY OF YOU, HAVING A MATTER AGAINST HIS
NEIGHBOUR, GO TO LAW BEFORE THE UNRIGHTEOUS, AND NOT BEFORE THE
SAINTS? Excellently, says Bengel here, ‘by this grand word
“Dare” does t...
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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...
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DARE ANY OF YOU?
(τολμα τις υμων;). Does any one of you dare? Rhetorical
question with present indicative of τολμαω, old verb from
τολμα, daring. Bengel: _grandi verbo notatur laesa majestas
Christi...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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HOW DARE HE. It was the custom at Corinth to sue each other in the
heathen courts of justice over worldly matters, often over unimportant
things. After becoming Christians, they had continued to do th...
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_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...
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1 CORINTHIANS—NOTE ON 1 CORINTHIANS 6:1 A GRIEVANCE AGAINST ANOTHER.
Paul seems to be addressing disputes related to property or money
(compare “Why not rather be defrauded?” v....
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_Dare any of you... go to law?_ Literally, _be judged_, _i.e._,
contend in judgment. Cf. 1 Samuel 12:7; Ezekiel 20:35; and Jeremiah
2:35. The Apostle is not censuring those who were dragged before the...
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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...
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_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...
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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
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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...
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1 Corinthians 1:2; 1 Corinthians 14:33; 1 Corinthians 16:1; 1
Corinthians 16:15;...
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Dare. "The insulted majesty of Christians is denoted by a grand word"
(Bengel)....
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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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The unjust — The heathens. A Christian could expect no justice from
these. The saints — Who might easily decide these smaller
differences in a private and friendly manner....
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Observe here, 1. That it was not simply and absolutely their going to
law which the apostle condemns, but their impleading one another at
pagan tribunals, and before heathen judges; THE LAW IS GOOD, I...