1 Corinthians 6:7 - Exposition

Now therefore; rather, Nay more, already. Utterly ; rather, generally, "altogether," "looking at the question as a whole." A fault. The word means "a defect," or possibly "a loss" ( Romans 11:12 , "the diminishing"). Your going to law is an inferiority or deficiency; you ought to know of "a more excellent way." Why do ye not rather take wrong? Strange as such advice would sound to heathens, who prided themselves on the passionate resentment of injuries as though it were a virtue, this had been the distinct teaching of our Lord; "Resist not evil" ( Matthew 5:39 ).