1 Corinthians 6:1

Authorized King James Version (1611)

¶ Dare any of you, having a matter against another, go to law before the unjust, and not before the saints?

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  • Acts 18:14-15 : 14 And when Paul was now about to open [his] mouth, Gallio said unto the Jews, If it were a matter of wrong or wicked lewdness, O [ye] Jews, reason would that I should bear with you: 15 But if it be a question of words and names, and [of] your law, look ye [to it]; for I will be no judge of such [matters].
  • Acts 19:38 : 38 Wherefore if Demetrius, and the craftsmen which are with him, have a matter against any man, the law is open, and there are deputies: let them implead one another.
  • Matt 18:15-17 : 15 ¶ ‹Moreover if thy brother shall trespass against thee, go and tell him his fault between thee and him alone: if he shall hear thee, thou hast gained thy brother.› 16 ‹But if he will not hear› [thee, then] ‹take with thee one or two more, that in the mouth of two or three witnesses every word may be established.› 17 ‹And if he shall neglect to hear them, tell› [it] ‹unto the church: but if he neglect to hear the church, let him be unto thee as an heathen man and a publican.›
  • 1 Cor 6:6-7 : 6 But brother goeth to law with brother, and that before the unbelievers. 7 Now therefore there is utterly a fault among you, because ye go to law one with another. Why do ye not rather take wrong? why do ye not rather [suffer yourselves to] be defrauded?
  • 1 Cor 14:33 : 33 For God is not [the author] of confusion, but of peace, as in all churches of the saints.
  • 1 Cor 16:1 : 1 ¶ Now concerning the collection for the saints, as I have given order to the churches of Galatia, even so do ye.
  • 1 Cor 16:15 : 15 I beseech you, brethren, (ye know the house of Stephanas, that it is the firstfruits of Achaia, and [that] they have addicted themselves to the ministry of the saints,)
  • 1 Cor 1:2 : 2 Unto the church of God which is at Corinth, to them that are sanctified in Christ Jesus, called [to be] saints, with all that in every place call upon the name of Jesus Christ our Lord, both theirs and ours:

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  • 1 Cor 6:2-9
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    2Do ye not know that the saints shall judge the world? and if the world shall be 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 judgments of things pertaining to this life, set them to judge who are least esteemed in the church.

    5I speak to your shame. Is it so, that there is not a wise man among you? no, not one that shall be able to judge between his brethren?

    6But brother goeth to law with brother, and that before the unbelievers.

    7Now therefore there is utterly a fault among you, because ye go to law one with another. Why do ye not rather take wrong? why do ye not rather [suffer yourselves to] be defrauded?

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

    9¶ 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 mankind,

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

    12There is one lawgiver, who is able to save and to destroy: who art thou that judgest another?

  • 1 Thess 4:6
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    6That no [man] go beyond and defraud his brother in [any] matter: because that the Lord [is] the avenger of all such, as we also have forewarned you and testified.

  • Luke 12:57-58
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    57‹Yea, and why even of yourselves judge ye not what is right?›

    58‹When thou goest with thine adversary to the magistrate,› [as thou art] ‹in the way, give diligence that thou mayest be delivered from him; lest he hale thee to the judge, and the judge deliver thee to the officer, and the officer cast thee into prison.›

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

  • Jas 5:9
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    9Grudge not one against another, brethren, lest ye be condemned: behold, the judge standeth before the door.

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

    13But them that are without God judgeth. Therefore put away from among yourselves that wicked person.

  • Jas 2:4
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    4Are ye not then partial in yourselves, and are become judges of evil thoughts?

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

  • Jas 2:6
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    6But ye have despised the poor. Do not rich men oppress you, and draw you before the judgment seats?

  • Luke 18:6
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    6And the Lord said, ‹Hear what the unjust judge saith.›

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

  • 2 Cor 6:14
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    14Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness?

  • 2 Chr 19:6
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    6And said to the judges, Take heed what ye do: for ye judge not for man, but for the LORD, who [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 the LORD, before the priests and the judges, which shall be in those days;

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

  • Matt 5:40
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    40‹And if any man will sue thee at the law, and take away thy coat, let him have› [thy] ‹cloke also.›

  • Exod 23:6
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    6Thou shalt not wrest the judgment of thy poor in his cause.

  • Gal 6:1-2
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    1¶ Brethren, if a man be overtaken in a fault, ye which are spiritual, restore such an one in the spirit of meekness; considering 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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    8¶ If 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 into the place which the LORD thy God shall choose;

  • Rom 3:6
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    6God forbid: for then how shall God judge the world?

  • 2 Thess 1:6
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    6Seeing [it is] a righteous thing with God to recompense tribulation to them that trouble you;

  • Rom 2:1-3
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    1¶ Therefore thou art inexcusable, O man, whosoever thou art that judgest: for wherein thou judgest another, thou condemnest thyself; for thou that judgest doest the same things.

    2But we are sure that the judgment of God is according to truth against them which commit such things.

    3And thinkest thou this, O man, that judgest them which do 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 honour the person of the mighty: [but] in righteousness shalt thou judge thy neighbour.

  • 1 Cor 4:6
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    6And these things, brethren, I have in a figure transferred to myself and [to] Apollos for your sakes; that ye might learn in us not to think [of men] above that which is written, that no one of you be puffed up for one against another.

  • 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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    38Wherefore if Demetrius, and the craftsmen which are with him, have a matter against any man, the law is open, and there are deputies: let them implead one another.

    39But if ye enquire any thing concerning other matters, it shall be determined in a lawful assembly.

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

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

  • 1 Cor 11:31-32
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    31For if we would judge ourselves, we should not be judged.

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

  • Jas 5:6
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    6Ye have condemned [and] killed the just; [and] he doth not resist you.

  • 1 Cor 5:10
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    10Yet not altogether with the fornicators of this world, or with the covetous, or 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 [any] man, before it hear him, and know what he doeth?

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

  • Acts 18:15
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    15But if it be a question of words and names, and [of] your law, look ye [to it]; for I will be no judge of such [matters].