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Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - 1 Corinthians 6:1-6

The shame on the church 6:1-6The failure of the two men who were suing each other was another evidence that the Corinthian church was not functioning properly. It indicated how lacking in true wisdom these Christians were. Paul argued with a series of rhetorical questions in this pericope. read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - 1 Corinthians 6:1-11

2. Litigation in the church 6:1-11The apostle continued to deal with the general subject of discipline in the church that he began in 1 Corinthians 5:1. He proceeded to point out some other glaring instances of inconsistency that had their roots in the Corinthians’ lax view of sin. Rather than looking to unsaved judges to solve their internal conflicts, they should have exercised discipline among themselves in these cases. Gallio had refused to get involved in Jewish controversies in Corinth... read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - 1 Corinthians 6:2

"Do you not know?" appears six times in this chapter (1 Corinthians 6:2-3; 1 Corinthians 6:9; 1 Corinthians 6:15-16; 1 Corinthians 6:19). In each case it introduces a subject that the Corinthian Christians should have known, probably because Paul or others had previously instructed them.The earlier revelation that the saints will have a part in judging unbelievers in the future may be Daniel 7:18; Daniel 7:22; Daniel 7:27. This judgment will evidently take place just after the Lord returns to... read more

John Darby

Darby's Synopsis of the New Testament - 1 Corinthians 6:2

6:2 (a-0) A question, with some expression of surprise, as 'is it so that you do not?' previous circumstances leading one to suppose they could not know. see Romans 6:3 ; Romans 7:1 ; Romans 11:2 . I have added 'then' to give the force in English. In Romans 2:4 the force as seen in 'or' is more apparent. judgments? (b-27) 'To judge the smallest matters?' read more

John Dummelow

John Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible - 1 Corinthians 6:1-20

(c) 6:1-11. Christians and LitigationSt. Paul reproves the Corinthians for referring their disputes about ordinary affairs to heathen judges. The subject was suggested by rumours he had heard; and the mention of ’judgment’ in 1 Corinthians 6:13 of the previous chapter prompted its treatment at this stage.1-6. Paraphrase. ’How is it that when you quarrel with one another you go before heathen judges and do not let some of the brethren decide your matter? (2) You spoke of the saints judging the... read more

Charles John Ellicott

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - 1 Corinthians 6:2

(2) Do ye not know . . . ?—The knowledge which they possessed of the great future which was in store for the Church of Christ was the strongest argument against the humiliating degradation to which their conduct was subjecting it.The saints shall judge the world.—The Apostle here claims for all Christians the glorious prerogative which Christ had Himself promised to His immediate personal followers (Matthew 19:28; Luke 22:30). Bearing in mind the deep conviction of the early Church that the... read more

William Nicoll

Expositor's Dictionary of Texts - 1 Corinthians 6:1-20

1 Corinthians 6:3 Astronomy without Christianity only reaches as far as 'Thou hast made him a little lower than the angels and put all things under his feet'; Christianity says beyond this 'Know ye not that we shall judge angels (as also the lower creatures shall judge us!)' Ruskin, Mornings in Florence (137). Reference. VI. 3, 4. Expositor (6th Series), vol. vii. p. 109. 1 Corinthians 6:9 Religion co-exists, as it were, in the mind of an Italian Catholic, with a faith in that of which all... read more

William Nicoll

Expositor's Bible Commentary - 1 Corinthians 6:1-14

Chapter 9ON GOING TO LAWST. PAUL here gives his judgment on the litigiousness of the Corinthians. The Greeks, in general, were fond of going to law. They were not only quarrelsome, but they seemed to derive an excitement pleasant to their frivolous nature in the suspense and uncertainty of cases before the courts. The converts to Christianity seemed not to have discarded this taste, and as a habit of going to law not merely involved great loss of time, but was also dangerous to the feeling of... read more

Arno Clemens Gaebelein

Arno Gaebelein's Annotated Bible - 1 Corinthians 6:1-20

CHAPTER 6 1. Concerning Disputes before Heathen Courts. (1 Corinthians 6:1-7 ). 2. The Holiness of Believers; Their Bodies the Temples of the Holy Spirit. (1 Corinthians 6:8-20 ). Instead of settling their disputes amongst themselves, as it becomes the Saints of God, they brought their difficulties before a heathen court. In doing this they had lost sight of the dignity of their calling. The Saints of God are to reign with Christ and share His glory; they shall judge the world and angels in... read more

John Calvin

Geneva Study Bible - 1 Corinthians 6:2

6:2 {3} 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?(3) He gathers by a comparison that the faithful cannot seek to be judged by infidels, without great injury done to the saints, seeing that God himself will make the saints judges of the world, and of the devils, with his Son Christ. Much more ought they to judge these light and final causes which may be by equity, and good conscience determined. read more