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

Do ye not know that the saints shall judge the world? And if the world shall be judged by you, are ye unworthy to judge the smallest matters?

Know ye not that we shall judge angels? How much more, things that pertain to this life?

If then ye have judgments to make on things pertaining to this life, set them to judge who are least esteemed in the church!

I speak to shame you! Is it so, that there is not a wise man among you, no, not one, who shall be able to judge between his brethren?

But brother goeth to law with brother, and that before the unbelievers!

Now therefore, there is utterly a fault among you, because ye go to law one against another. Why do ye not rather accept wrong? Why do ye not rather suffer yourselves to be defrauded?

Nay, ye do wrong and defraud, and that your own brethren!

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Dare any of you, having a matter against [a]his neighbor, go to law before the unrighteous, and not before the saints? Or know ye not that the saints shall judge the world? and if the world is judged by you, are ye unworthy [b]to judge the smallest matters? Know ye not that we shall judge angels? how much more, things that pertain to this life? If then ye have [c]to judge things pertaining to this life, [d]do ye set them to judge who are of no account in the church? I say this to move you to shame. [e]What, cannot there be found among you one wise man who shall be able to decide between his brethren, but brother goeth to law with brother, and that before unbelievers? Nay, already it is altogether [f]a defect in you, that ye have lawsuits one with another. Why not rather take wrong? why not rather be defrauded? Nay, but ye yourselves do wrong, and defraud, and that your brethren.

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Corinthians 6:1 Greek the other. See Rom. 13:8.
  2. 1 Corinthians 6:2 Greek of the smallest tribunals.
  3. 1 Corinthians 6:4 Greek tribunals pertaining to.
  4. 1 Corinthians 6:4 Or, set them . . . church
  5. 1 Corinthians 6:5 Or, Is it so, that there cannot etc.
  6. 1 Corinthians 6:7 Or, a loss to you