Lawsuits Discouraged

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? 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? (E)Do you not know that we will judge angels? How much more matters of this life?

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Corinthians 6:1 Lit matter
  2. 1 Corinthians 6:1 Lit the other
  3. 1 Corinthians 6:1 Lit holy ones; i.e., God’s people
  4. 1 Corinthians 6:2 See note 2 v 1
  5. 1 Corinthians 6:2 I.e., to try trivial cases

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? On the contrary, you yourselves do wrong and defraud. And this to your (B)brothers and sisters!

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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Footnotes

  1. 1 Corinthians 6:9 Two Gr words in the text, prob. submissive and dominant male homosexuals

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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Footnotes

  1. 1 Corinthians 6:11 Or by

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