1 Corinthians 6:7

7 More than this, it is not to your credit to have causes at law with one another at all. Why not put up with wrong? why not undergo loss?

1 Corinthians 6:7 Meaning and Commentary

1 Corinthians 6:7

Now therefore there is utterly a fault among you
Or a "defect": a want of brotherly love, or there would be no occasion to go to law at all; a want of wisdom and conduct, or proper persons would be pitched upon, and chosen out from among themselves to be arbitrators and judge between them; and a want of care among their leaders, who else would have pointed out to them such a method of accommodation, and not have suffered them to go the lengths they did:

because ye go to law one with another;
which would never be, was there not a declension among you, a decay of your first love, and of the power of religion and true godliness:

why do ye not rather take wrong why do ye not rather suffer
yourselves to be defrauded?
than to go to law, especially before unjust persons and unbelievers, taking the advice of Christ, ( Matthew 5:40 ) It is more advisable to a believer to suffer wrong than to go to law with any man, and especially with a brother. It is a petition in the Jewish liturgy ^F7,

``let it please thee, O Lord God, and the God of my fathers, to deliver me this day, and every day---from hard judgment, and a severe adversary, (tyrb Nb wnyav Nybw tyrb) (Nb awhv Nyb) , "whether he be a Son of the covenant, or whether he be not a son of the covenant".''

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FOOTNOTES:

F7 Seder Tephillot, fol. 3. 2. Ed. Basil. fol. 5. 2. Ed. Amst.

1 Corinthians 6:7 In-Context

5 I say this to put you to shame. Is there not among you one wise man who may be able to give a decision between his brothers?

6 But a brother who has a cause at law against another takes it before Gentile judges.

7 More than this, it is not to your credit to have causes at law with one another at all. Why not put up with wrong? why not undergo loss?

8 So far from doing this, you yourselves do wrong and take your brothers' property.

9 Have you not knowledge that evil-doers will have no part in the kingdom of God? Have no false ideas about this: no one who goes after the desires of the flesh, or gives worship to images, or is untrue when married, or is less than a man, or makes a wrong use of men,