1 Corinthians 6:1-3
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Lawsuits Discouraged
6 Does any one of you, when he has a [a]case against [b]his neighbor, dare to go to law before the unrighteous and (A)not before the [c]saints? 2 Or (B)do you not know that (C)the [d]saints will judge (D)the world? If the world is judged by you, are you not competent to form the smallest [e]law courts? 3 (E)Do you not know that we will judge angels? How much more matters of this life?
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- 1 Corinthians 6:1 Lit matter
- 1 Corinthians 6:1 Lit the other
- 1 Corinthians 6:1 Lit holy ones; i.e., God’s people
- 1 Corinthians 6:2 See note 2 v 1
- 1 Corinthians 6:2 I.e., to try trivial cases
1 Corinthians 6:7-9
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7 Actually, then, it is already a defeat for you, that you have lawsuits with one another. (A)Why not rather suffer the wrong? Why not rather be defrauded? 8 On the contrary, you yourselves do wrong and defraud. And this to your (B)brothers and sisters!
9 Or (C)do you not know that the unrighteous will not (D)inherit the kingdom of God? (E)Do not be deceived; (F)neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor [a]homosexuals,
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- 1 Corinthians 6:9 Two Gr words in the text, prob. submissive and dominant male homosexuals
1 Corinthians 6:11
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11 (A)Such were some of you; but you were (B)washed, but you were (C)sanctified, but you were (D)justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and [a]in the Spirit of our God.
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- 1 Corinthians 6:11 Or by
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