“Nay, but brother goes to law with brother this too before unbelievers!” This is an answer to the question of 1 Corinthians 6:5, not a continuation of it. The litigation shows that there is no man in the Church wise enough to settle such matters privately; or he would surely have been called in. The ἄδικοι of 1 Corinthians 6:1 here figure as ἄπιστοι; see parls; contrast with οἱ πιστεύοντες (1 Corinthians 1:21).
Verse 1 Corinthians 6:6. _BROTHER GOETH TO LAW WITH BROTHER_] One Christian sues another at law! This is almost as great a scandal as can exist in a Christian society. Those in a religious community w...
BUT BROTHER ... - One Christian goes to law with another. This is designed as a reproof. This was wrong: * Because they ought rather to take wrong and suffer themselves to be injured 1 Corinthians 6...
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...
UNBELIEVERS. Greek. _apistos._ See App-150....
_But brother goeth to law_ "It is not a question between ecclesiastical and civil courts, but between Law and Equity, Litigation and Arbitration.… The remedy is not more elaborate law, nor cheaper law...
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...
ἈΛΛᾺ�. ‘It is not a question between ecclesiastical and civil courts, but between Law and Equity, Litigation and Arbitration.… The remedy is not more elaborate law, nor cheaper law, nor greater facili...
_ 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...
ΆΛΛΆ (G235) но в действительности, ΚΡΊΝΕΤΑΙ _praes. ind. med._/pass. от ΚΡΊΝΩ (G2919) судить (_см._ 1 Corinthians 6:1). ΚΑΊ ΤΟΎΤΟ и в этом, и особенно (BD, 151). Критическое значение _part._ использ...
BROTHER GOETH TO LAW WITH BROTHER— Josephus observes, that the Romans, who were now masters of Corinth, permitted the Jews in foreign countries to decide private affairs, where nothing capital was in...
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...
But brother goeth to law with brother, and that before the unbelievers. BUT - emphatically answering . Translate, 'Nay,' etc....
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. 'How is it that when you quarrel with one another you go before heathen judges and do not let some of the brethren decide your matter? (2) You spoke of the saints judging the world, why no...
BEFORE THE UNBELIEVERS] The Corinthian converts referred their disputes about matters of daily life, such as 'prices and ownership' (Ramsay), to heathen judges or arbitrators. St. Paul urges them, if...
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...
BUT BROTHER GOETH TO LAW WITH BROTHER. — “It would almost seem as if it were not so. Your dragging these disputes before tribunals of the heathen would imply that it is not possible to find a Christia...
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...
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...
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...
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...
“I speak to your shame: is it so that there is not a wise man among you, no not one, that shall be able to judge between his brethren! 6. But brother goeth to law with brother, and that before the unb...
VV. 6 is the exclamatory conclusion of the foregoing development. The ἀλλά is not a particle of gradation; it is simply the _but_ adversative. To understand the contrast which it marks, we must take e...
(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...
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...
BUT BROTHER GOETH TO LAW WITH BROTHER,.... The relation meant is spiritual; it was usual for members of churches to be called brethren, they professing to be born again of the same Father, and belongi...
But brother goeth to law with brother, and that before the unbelievers. Ver. 6. _But brother goeth to law_] Once it was counted ominous to commence actions, and follow suits. Of common barreters, we...
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...
BUT BROTHER GOETH TO LAW WITH BROTHER, AND THAT BEFORE THE UNBELIEVERS....
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...
BUT BROTHER GOETH TO LAW WITH BROTHER, AND THAT BEFORE UNBELIEVERS? 'Not only so, but all of this happens right in the open, "in front of unbelievers". (Fee p. 237) 'AND THAT' -calling attention to...
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...
OLBGrk; Ver. 6,7. NOW THEREFORE THERE IS UTTERLY A FAULT AMONG YOU, BECAUSE YE GO TO LAW ONE WITH ANOTHER; not that it is simply unlawful for men to make use of human laws, and courts, and methods of...
but brother goeth to law with brother, and that before unbelievers? [This question is a crushing rebuke to their vaunted pride as learned sages. The rebuke is intensified by the phrase "know ye not,...
1 Corinthians 6:6 But G235 brother G80 law G2919 (G5743) against G3326 brother G80 and G2532 that G5124 before...
‘If then you have to judge things pertaining to this life, set those to judge who are of no account in the church (or ‘do you set to judge those---'). I say this to move you to shame. Is it so that th...
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...
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...
AND THAT BEFORE UNBELIEVERS (κα τουτο επ απιστων). Climactic force of κα. The accusative of general reference with τουτο. "That there should be disputes about βιωτικα is bad; that Christian should...
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...
INSTEAD. "Your action shows there is no wise man in the Church at Corinth, or he would surely have been called upon to settle the matter." See note on 1 Corinthians 6:1....
_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...
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 Corinthians 6:1; 1 Corinthians 6:7; 1 John 2:9; 1 John 3:11; Ac
Goeth to law [κ ρ ι ν ε τ α ι]. As in ver. 1, and Matthew 5:40. Instead of accepting arbitration....
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,...