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Do Not Sue the Brethren

1 Dare any of you, having a matter against another, go to law before the unrighteous, and not before the asaints?  
2 Do you not know that athe saints will judge the world? And if the world will be judged by you, are you unworthy to judge the smallest matters?  
3 Do you not know that we shall ajudge angels? How much more, things that pertain to this life?  
4 If then you have1 judgments concerning things pertaining to this life, do you appoint those who are least esteemed by the church to judge?  
5 I say this to your shame. Is it so, that there is not a wise man among you, not even one, who will be able to judge between his brethren?
6 But brother goes to law against brother, and that before unbelievers!
7 Now therefore, it is already an utter failure for you that you go to law against one another. aWhy do you not rather accept wrong? Why do you not rather let yourselves be cheated?  
Commentaries:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
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1 Corinthians 6:1

LITIGATION OF CHRISTIANS IN HEATHEN COURTS CENSURED: ITS VERY EXISTENCE BETRAYS A WRONG SPIRIT: BETTER TO BEAR WRONG NOW, AND HEREAFTER THE DOERS OF WRONG SHALL BE SHUT OUT OF HEAVEN. (I Corinthians 6:1-11)

Dare—This word implies treason against Christian brotherhood [BENGEL].

before the unjust—The Gentile judges are here so termed by an epithet appropriate to the subject in question, namely, one concerning justice. Though all Gentiles were not altogether unjust, yet in the highest view of justice which has regard to God as the Supreme Judge, they are so: Christians, on the other hand, as regarding God as the only Fountain of justice, should not expect justice from them.

before . . . saints—The Jews abroad were permitted to refer their disputes to Jewish arbitrators [JOSEPHUS, Antiquities, 14.10,17]. So the Christians were allowed to have Christian arbitrators.




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