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I speak to your shame. Is it so that there is not among you any one wise man, that is able to judge between his brethren?

But brother goeth to law with brother, and that before unbelievers.

Already indeed there is plainly a fault among you, that you have lawsuits one with another. Why do you not rather take wrong? Why do you not rather suffer yourselves to be defrauded?

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I say this to shame you.(A) Is it possible that there is nobody among you wise enough to judge a dispute between believers?(B) But instead, one brother(C) takes another to court—and this in front of unbelievers!(D)

The very fact that you have lawsuits among you means you have been completely defeated already. Why not rather be wronged? Why not rather be cheated?(E)

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