I say this to your shame!(A) Can it be that there is not one wise person among you who is able to arbitrate between his brothers?(B) Instead, believer[a] goes to court against believer, and that before unbelievers!(C)

Therefore, to have legal disputes against one another is already a moral failure for you.(D) Why not rather put up with injustice?(E) Why not rather be cheated?(F)

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Corinthians 6:6 Lit brothers

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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