1 Corinthians 6:1

American Standard Version (1901)

Dare any of you, having a matter against his neighbor, go to law before the unrighteous, and not before the saints?

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Referenced Verses

  • Acts 18:14-15 : 14 But when Paul was about to open his mouth, Gallio said unto the Jews, If indeed it were a matter of wrong or of wicked villany, O ye Jews, reason would that I should bear with you: 15 but if they are questions about words and names and your own law, look to it yourselves; I am not minded to be a judge of these matters.
  • Acts 19:38 : 38 If therefore Demetrius, and the craftsmen that are with him, have a matter against any man, the courts are open, and there are proconsuls: let them accuse one another.
  • Matt 18:15-17 : 15 And if thy brother sin against thee, go, show him his fault between thee and him alone: if he hear thee, thou hast gained thy brother. 16 But if he hear [thee] not, take with thee one or two more, that at the mouth of two witnesses or three every word may be established. 17 And if he refuse to hear them, tell it unto the church: and if he refuse to hear the church also, let him be unto thee as the Gentile and the publican.
  • 1 Cor 6:6-7 : 6 but brother goeth to law with brother, and that before unbelievers? 7 Nay, already it is altogether a defect in you, that ye have lawsuits one with another. Why not rather take wrong? why not rather be defrauded?
  • 1 Cor 14:33 : 33 for God is not [a God] of confusion, but of peace. As in all the churches of the saints,
  • 1 Cor 16:1 : 1 Now concerning the collection for the saints, as I gave order to the churches of Galatia, so also do ye.
  • 1 Cor 16:15 : 15 Now I beseech you, brethren (ye know the house of Stephanas, that it is the firstfruits of Achaia, and that they have set themselves to minister unto the saints),
  • 1 Cor 1:2 : 2 unto the church of God which is at Corinth, [even] them that are sanctified in Christ Jesus, called [to be] saints, with all that call upon the name of our Lord Jesus Christ in every place, their [Lord] and ours:

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • 1 Cor 6:2-9
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    2Or know ye not that the saints shall judge the world? and if the world is judged by you, are ye unworthy to judge the smallest matters?

    3Know ye not that we shall judge angels? how much more, things that pertain to this life?

    4If then ye have to judge things pertaining to this life, do ye set them to judge who are of no account in the church?

    5I say [this] to move you to shame. What, cannot there be [found] among you one wise man who shall be able to decide between his brethren,

    6but brother goeth to law with brother, and that before unbelievers?

    7Nay, already it is altogether a defect in you, that ye have lawsuits one with another. Why not rather take wrong? why not rather be defrauded?

    8Nay, but ye yourselves do wrong, and defraud, and that [your] brethren.

    9Or know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with men,

  • Jas 4:11-12
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    11Speak not one against another, brethren. He that speaketh against a brother, or judgeth his brother, speaketh against the law, and judgeth the law: but if thou judgest the law, thou art not a doer of the law, but a judge.

    12One [only] is the lawgiver and judge, [even] he who is able to save and to destroy: but who art thou that judgest thy neighbor?

  • 1 Thess 4:6
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    6that no man transgress, and wrong his brother in the matter: because the Lord is an avenger in all these things, as also we forewarned you and testified.

  • Luke 12:57-58
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    57And why even of yourselves judge ye not what is right?

    58For as thou art going with thine adversary before the magistrate, on the way give diligence to be quit of him; lest haply he drag thee unto the judge, and the judge shall deliver thee to the officer, and the officer shall cast thee into prison.

  • Deut 25:1
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    1If there be a controversy between men, and they come unto judgment, and [the judges] judge them; then they shall justify the righteous, and condemn the wicked;

  • Jas 5:9
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    9Murmur not, brethren, one against another, that ye be not judged: behold, the judge standeth before the doors.

  • 1 Cor 5:12-13
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    12For what have I to do with judging them that are without? Do not ye judge them that are within?

    13But them that are without God judgeth. Put away the wicked man from among yourselves.

  • Jas 2:4
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    4do ye not make distinctions among yourselves, and become judges with evil thoughts?

  • Matt 7:1
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    1Judge not, that ye be not judged.

  • Jas 2:6
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    6But ye have dishonored the poor man. Do not the rich oppress you, and themselves drag you before the judgment-seats?

  • Luke 18:6
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    6And the Lord said, Hear what the unrighteous judge saith.

  • Rom 14:10
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    10But thou, why dost thou judge thy brother? or thou again, why dost thou set at nought thy brother? for we shall all stand before the judgment-seat of God.

  • 2 Cor 6:14
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    14Be not unequally yoked with unbelievers: for what fellowship have righteousness and iniquity? or what communion hath light with darkness?

  • 2 Chr 19:6
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    6and said to the judges, Consider what ye do: for ye judge not for man, but for Jehovah; and [he is] with you in the judgment.

  • Deut 19:17
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    17then both the men, between whom the controversy is, shall stand before Jehovah, before the priests and the judges that shall be in those days;

  • Rom 14:13
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    13Let us not therefore judge one another any more: but judge ye this rather, that no man put a stumblingblock in his brother's way, or an occasion of falling.

  • Matt 5:40
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    40And if any man would go to law with thee, and take away thy coat, let him have thy cloak also.

  • Exod 23:6
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    6Thou shalt not wrest the justice [due] to thy poor in his cause.

  • Gal 6:1-2
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    1Brethren, even if a man be overtaken in any trespass, ye who are spiritual, restore such a one in a spirit of gentleness; looking to thyself, lest thou also be tempted.

    2Bear ye one another's burdens, and so fulfil the law of Christ.

  • Deut 17:8
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    8If there arise a matter too hard for thee in judgment, between blood and blood, between plea and plea, and between stroke and stroke, being matters of controversy within thy gates; then shalt thou arise, and get thee up unto the place which Jehovah thy God shall choose;

  • Rom 3:6
    69%

    6God forbid: for then how shall God judge the world?

  • 2 Thess 1:6
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    6if so be that it is righteous thing with God to recompense affliction to them that afflict you,

  • Rom 2:1-3
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    1Wherefore thou art without excuse, O man, whosoever thou art that judgest: for wherein thou judges another, thou condemnest thyself; for thou that judgest dost practise the same things.

    2And we know that the judgment of God is according to truth against them that practise such things.

    3And reckonest thou this, O man, who judgest them that practise such things, and doest the same, that thou shalt escape the judgment of God?

  • Lev 19:15
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    15Ye shall do no unrighteousness in judgment: thou shalt not respect the person of the poor, nor honor the person of the mighty; but in righteousness shalt thou judge thy neighbor.

  • 1 Cor 4:6
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    6Now these things, brethren, I have in a figure transferred to myself and Apollos for your sakes; that in us ye might learn not [to go] beyond the things which are written; that no one of you be puffed up for the one against the other.

  • 1 Cor 4:3
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    3But with me it is a very small thing that I should be judged of you, or of man's judgment: yea, I judge not mine own self.

  • Acts 19:38-39
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    38If therefore Demetrius, and the craftsmen that are with him, have a matter against any man, the courts are open, and there are proconsuls: let them accuse one another.

    39But if ye seek anything about other matters, it shall be settled in the regular assembly.

  • 1 Cor 6:11
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    11And such were some of you: but ye were washed, but ye were sanctified, but ye were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, and in the Spirit of our God.

  • 1 Pet 4:17
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    17For the time [is come] for judgment to begin at the house of God: and if [it begin] first at us, what [shall be] the end of them that obey not the gospel of God?

  • 1 Cor 11:31-32
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    31But if we discerned ourselves, we should not be judged.

    32But when we are judged, we are chastened of the Lord, that we may not be condemned with the world.

  • Jas 5:6
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    6Ye have condemned, ye have killed the righteous [one] ; he doth not resist you.

  • 1 Cor 5:10
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    10not at all [meaning] with the fornicators of this world, or with the covetous and extortioners, or with idolaters; for then must ye needs go out of the world:

  • John 7:51
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    51Doth our law judge a man, except it first hear from himself and know what he doeth?

  • Acts 7:27
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    27But he that did his neighbor wrong thrust him away, saying, Who made thee a ruler and a judge over us?

  • Acts 18:15
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    15but if they are questions about words and names and your own law, look to it yourselves; I am not minded to be a judge of these matters.