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Two adult believers discuss a dispute face-to-face with trusted members of the Corinthian gathering; a civic tribunal is distant outside.
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1 Corinthians 6:1-8

Disputes Among Believers

Disputes, Washing, and Bodily Dignity · 1 Corinthians 6

Story guide: Paul challenges lawsuits between believers and calls them to resolve wrongs without turning their conflict into a public status contest.

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1Does any one of you dare, when he has a case against another, to be judged before the unrighteous and not before the saints?

2Or do you not know that the saints will judge the world? And if the world is judged by you, are you unworthy of the smallest courts?

3Do you not know that we will judge angels? How much more, the things of this life!

4So if you have courts for matters of this life, do you appoint as judges those who are of no standing in the church?

5I say this to your shame. Is it really so, that there is not among you even one wise man who will be able to judge between his brothers?

6But brother goes to court against brother, and this before unbelievers?

7Indeed, then, it is already altogether a defeat for you that you have lawsuits among yourselves. Why not rather be wronged? Why not rather be defrauded?

8But you yourselves do wrong and defraud—and this to your brothers.

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