1 Corinthians 6:1 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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¹Dare any of you, having a matter against another, go to law before the unjust, and not before the saints?

1 Corinthians 6:1 —

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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Matthew 18:15-17
Moreover if thy brother shall trespass against thee, go and tell him his fault between thee and him alone: if he shall hear thee, thou hast gained thy brother. …
Acts 19:38
Wherefore if Demetrius, and the craftsmen which are with him, have a matter against any man, the law is open, and there are deputies: let them implead one another.
1 Corinthians 14:33
For God is not the author of confusion, but of peace, as in all churches of the saints.
1 Corinthians 6:6-7
But brother goeth to law with brother, and that before the unbelievers. …
1 Corinthians 16:1
Now concerning the collection for the saints, as I have given order to the churches of Galatia, even so do ye.

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Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 1-8)

Here the apostle reproves them for going to law with one another before heathen judges for little matters; and therein blames all vexatious law-suits. In the previous chapter he had directed them to punish heinous sins among themselves by church-censures. Here he directs them to determine controversies with one another by church-counsel and advice, concerning which observe, I. The fault he blames…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 1)

1Co 6:1-11. 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. 1. 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 concer…