1 Corinthians 6:8

World English Bible (2000)

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

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  • 1 Thess 4:6 : 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.
  • Jas 5:4 : 4 Behold, the wages of the laborers who mowed your fields, which you have kept back by fraud, cry out, and the cries of those who reaped have entered into the ears of the Lord of Armies.
  • Lev 19:13 : 13 "'You shall not oppress your neighbor, nor rob him. "'The wages of a hired servant shall not remain with you all night until the morning.
  • Mic 2:2 : 2 They covet fields, and seize them; and houses, and take them away: and they oppress a man and his house, even a man and his heritage.
  • Mal 3:5 : 5 I will come near to you to judgment; and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, and against the adulterers, and against the perjurers, and against those who oppress the hireling in his wages, the widow, and the fatherless, and who deprive the foreigner of justice, and don't fear me," says Yahweh of Armies.
  • Mark 10:19 : 19 You know the commandments: 'Do not murder,' 'Do not commit adultery,' 'Do not steal,' 'Do not give false testimony,' 'Do not defraud,' 'Honor your father and mother.'"
  • Col 3:25 : 25 But he who does wrong will receive again for the wrong that he has done, and there is no partiality.

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  • 1 Cor 6:5-7
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    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?

  • 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.

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

  • 1 Cor 6:9-10
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    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,

    10 nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor slanderers, nor extortioners, will inherit the Kingdom of God.

  • 12 Thus, sinning against the brothers, and wounding their conscience when it is weak, you sin against Christ.

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

  • 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.

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

  • Jas 2:6-9
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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?

    7 Don't they blaspheme the honorable name by which you are called?

    8 However, if you fulfill the royal law, according to the Scripture, "You shall love your neighbor as yourself," you do well.

    9 But if you show partiality, you commit sin, being convicted by the law as transgressors.

  • 2 You are puffed up, and didn't rather mourn, that he who had done this deed might be removed from among you.

  • Acts 7:26-27
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    26 "The day following, he appeared to them as they fought, and urged them to be at peace again, saying, 'Sirs, you are brothers. Why do you wrong one another?'

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

  • 2 Open your hearts to us. We wronged no one. We corrupted no one. We took advantage of no one.

  • 57 Why don't you judge for yourselves what is right?

  • Mal 3:8-9
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    8 Will a man rob God? Yet you rob me! But you say, 'How have we robbed you?' In tithes and offerings.

    9 You are cursed with the curse; for you rob me, even this whole nation.

  • 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.

  • 25 But he who does wrong will receive again for the wrong that he has done, and there is no partiality.

  • 19 then you shall do to him as he had thought to do to his brother: so you shall put away the evil from the midst of you.

  • 10 Don't oppress the widow, nor the fatherless, the foreigner, nor the poor; and let none of you devise evil against his brother in your heart.'

  • Lev 6:2-3
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    2 "If anyone sins, and commits a trespass against Yahweh, and deals falsely with his neighbor in a matter of deposit, or of bargain, or of robbery, or has oppressed his neighbor,

    3 or has found that which was lost, and dealt falsely therein, and swearing to a lie; in any of all these things that a man does, sinning therein;

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

  • 11 "'You shall not steal. "'You shall not lie. "'You shall not deceive one another.

  • 16 Don't be deceived, my beloved brothers.

  • 16 But now you glory in your boasting. All such boasting is evil.

  • 6 For you have taken pledges from your brother for nothing, and stripped the naked of their clothing.

  • 4 Behold, the wages of the laborers who mowed your fields, which you have kept back by fraud, cry out, and the cries of those who reaped have entered into the ears of the Lord of Armies.

  • 12 But above all things, my brothers, don't swear, neither by heaven, nor by the earth, nor by any other oath; but let your "yes" be "yes," and your "no," "no;" so that you don't fall into hypocrisy.

  • 27 Yes, you would even cast lots for the fatherless, and make merchandise of your friend.

  • 12 unlike Cain, who was of the evil one, and killed his brother. Why did he kill him? Because his works were evil, and his brother's righteous.

  • 14 "'If you sell anything to your neighbor, or buy from your neighbor, you shall not wrong one another.

  • 6 Your boasting is not good. Don't you know that a little yeast leavens the whole lump?

  • 6 Let no one deceive you with empty words. For because of these things, the wrath of God comes on the children of disobedience.

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

  • 13 For this is not that others may be eased and you distressed,

  • 2 No, in your heart you plot injustice. You measure out the violence of your hands in the earth.

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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.

    11 But as it is, I wrote to you not to associate with anyone who is called a brother who is a sexual sinner, or covetous, or an idolater, or a slanderer, or a drunkard, or an extortioner. Don't even eat with such a person.

  • 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.

  • 31 "As you would like people to do to you, do exactly so to them.

  • 18 But if he has wronged you at all, or owes you anything, put that to my account.

  • 8 Your wickedness may hurt a man as you are, and your righteousness may profit a son of man.