1 Corinthians 6:1

World English Bible (2000)

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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  • Acts 18:14-15 : 14 But when Paul was about to open his mouth, Gallio said to the Jews, "If indeed it were a matter of wrong or of wicked crime, you Jews, it would be reasonable that I should bear with you; 15 but if they are questions about words and names and your own law, look to it yourselves. For I don't want to be a judge of these matters."
  • Acts 19:38 : 38 If therefore Demetrius and the craftsmen who are with him have a matter against anyone, the courts are open, and there are proconsuls. Let them press charges against one another.
  • Matt 18:15-17 : 15 "If your brother sins against you, go, show him his fault between you and him alone. If he listens to you, you have gained back your brother. 16 But if he doesn't listen, take one or two more with you, that at the mouth of two or three witnesses every word may be established. 17 If he refuses to listen to them, tell it to the assembly. If he refuses to hear the assembly also, let him be to you as a Gentile or a tax collector.
  • 1 Cor 6:6-7 : 6 But brother goes to law with brother, and that before unbelievers! 7 Therefore it is already altogether a defect in you, that you have lawsuits one with another. Why not rather be wronged? 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 assemblies of the saints,
  • 1 Cor 16:1 : 1 Now concerning the collection for the saints, as I commanded the assemblies of Galatia, you do likewise.
  • 1 Cor 16:15 : 15 Now I beg you, brothers (you know the house of Stephanas, that it is the first fruits of Achaia, and that they have set themselves to serve the saints),
  • 1 Cor 1:2 : 2 to the assembly of God which is at Corinth; those who are sanctified in Christ Jesus, called to be saints, with all who call on the name of our Lord Jesus Christ in every place, both theirs and ours:

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  • 1 Cor 6:2-9
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    2 Don't you know that the saints will judge the world? And if the world is judged by you, are you unworthy to judge the smallest matters?

    3 Don't you know that we will judge angels? How much more, things that pertain to this life?

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

    5 I say this to move you to shame. Isn't there even one wise man among you who would be able to decide between his brothers?

    6 But brother goes to law with brother, and that before unbelievers!

    7 Therefore it is already altogether a defect in you, that you have lawsuits one with another. Why not rather be wronged? Why not rather be defrauded?

    8 No, but you yourselves do wrong, and defraud, and that against your brothers.

    9 Or don't you know that the unrighteous will not inherit the Kingdom of God? Don't be deceived. Neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor male prostitutes, nor homosexuals,

  • Jas 4:11-12
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    11 Don't speak against one another, brothers. He who speaks against a brother and judges his brother, speaks against the law and judges the law. But if you judge the law, you are not a doer of the law, but a judge.

    12 Only one is the lawgiver, who is able to save and to destroy. But who are you to judge another?

  • 1 Thess 4:6
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    6 that no one should take advantage of and wrong a brother or sister in this 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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    57 Why don't you judge for yourselves what is right?

    58 For when you are going with your adversary before the magistrate, try diligently on the way to be released from him, lest perhaps he drag you to the judge, and the judge deliver you to the officer, and the officer throw you into prison.

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

  • Jas 5:9
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    9 Don't grumble, brothers, against one another, so that you won't be judged. Behold, the judge stands at the door.

  • 1 Cor 5:12-13
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    12 For what have I to do with also judging those who are outside? Don't you judge those who are within?

    13 But those who are outside, God judges. "Put away the wicked man from among yourselves."

  • Jas 2:4
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    4 haven't you shown partiality among yourselves, and become judges with evil thoughts?

  • Matt 7:1
    72%

    1 "Don't judge, so that you won't be judged.

  • Jas 2:6
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    6 But you have dishonored the poor man. Don't the rich oppress you, and personally drag you before the courts?

  • Luke 18:6
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    6 The Lord said, "Listen to what the unrighteous judge says.

  • Rom 14:10
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    10 But you, why do you judge your brother? Or you again, why do you despise your brother? For we will all stand before the judgment seat of Christ.

  • 2 Cor 6:14
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    14 Don't be unequally yoked with unbelievers, for what fellowship have righteousness and iniquity? Or what fellowship has light with darkness?

  • 2 Chr 19:6
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    6 and said to the judges, "Consider what you do: for you don't judge for man, but for Yahweh; and [he is] with you in the judgment.

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

  • Rom 14:13
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    13 Therefore let's not judge one another any more, but judge this rather, that no man put a stumbling block in his brother's way, or an occasion for falling.

  • Matt 5:40
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    40 If anyone sues you to take away your coat, let him have your cloak also.

  • Exod 23:6
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    6 "You shall not deny justice to your poor people in their lawsuits.

  • Gal 6:1-2
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    1 Brothers, even if a man is caught in some fault, you who are spiritual must restore such a one in a spirit of gentleness; looking to yourself so that you also aren't tempted.

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

  • Deut 17:8
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    8 If there arises a matter too hard for you in judgment, between blood and blood, between plea and plea, and between stroke and stroke, being matters of controversy within your gates; then you shall arise, and go up to the place which Yahweh your God shall choose;

  • Rom 3:6
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    6 May it never be! For then how will God judge the world?

  • 2 Thess 1:6
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    6 Since it is a righteous thing with God to repay affliction to those who afflict you,

  • Rom 2:1-3
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    1 Therefore you are without excuse, O man, whoever you are who judge. For in that which you judge another, you condemn yourself. For you who judge practice the same things.

    2 We know that the judgment of God is according to truth against those who practice such things.

    3 Do you think this, O man who judges those who practice such things, and do the same, that you will escape the judgment of God?

  • Lev 19:15
    69%

    15 "'You shall do no injustice in judgment: you shall not be partial to the poor, nor show favoritism to the great; but you shall judge your neighbor in righteousness.

  • 1 Cor 4:6
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    6 Now these things, brothers, I have in a figure transferred to myself and Apollos for your sakes, that in us you might learn not to think beyond the things which are written, that none of you be puffed up against one another.

  • 1 Cor 4:3
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    3 But with me it is a very small thing that I should be judged by you, or by man's judgment. Yes, I don't judge my own self.

  • Acts 19:38-39
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    38 If therefore Demetrius and the craftsmen who are with him have a matter against anyone, the courts are open, and there are proconsuls. Let them press charges against one another.

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

  • 1 Cor 6:11
    69%

    11 Such were some of you, but you were washed. But you were sanctified. But you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and in the Spirit of our God.

  • 1 Pet 4:17
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    17 For the time has come for judgment to begin with the household of God. If it begins first with us, what will happen to those who don't obey the Good News of God?

  • 1 Cor 11:31-32
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    31 For if we discerned ourselves, we wouldn't be judged.

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

  • Jas 5:6
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    6 You have condemned, you have murdered the righteous one. He doesn't resist you.

  • 1 Cor 5:10
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    10 yet not at all meaning with the sexual sinners of this world, or with the covetous and extortioners, or with idolaters; for then you would have to leave the world.

  • John 7:51
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    51 "Does our law judge a man, unless it first hears from him personally and knows what he does?"

  • Acts 7:27
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    27 But he who did his neighbor wrong pushed him away, saying, 'Who made you a ruler and a judge over us?

  • Acts 18:15
    68%

    15 but if they are questions about words and names and your own law, look to it yourselves. For I don't want to be a judge of these matters."