American Standard Version
1 Corinthians 6:5
5I say this to move you to shame. What, cannot there be found among you one wise man who shall be able to decide between his brethren,
1 Corinthians 6:5 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)I 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?
- New International Version (NIV)I say this to shame you. Is it possible that there is nobody among you wise enough to judge a dispute between believers?
- English Standard Version (ESV)I say this to your shame. Can it be that there is no one among you wise enough to settle a dispute between the brothers,
- New King James Version (NKJV)I say this to your shame. Is it so, that there is not a wise man among you, not even one, who will be able to judge between his brethren?
Context of 1 Corinthians 6:5
3Know ye not that we shall judge angels? how much more, things that pertain to this life? 4If then ye have to judge things pertaining to this life, do ye set them to judge who are of no account in the church? I say this to move you to shame. What, cannot there be found among you one wise man who shall be able to decide between his brethren, 6but brother goeth to law with brother, and that before unbelievers? 7Nay, already it is altogether a defect in you, that ye have lawsuits one with another. Why not rather take wrong? why not rather be defrauded?
Read all of 1 Corinthians 61 Corinthians 6:5 word by word
πρὸς ἐντροπὴν ὑμῖν λέγω. οὕτως οὐκ ἔνι ἐν ὑμῖν οὐδεὶς σοφός, ὃς δυνήσεται διακρῖναι ἀνὰ μέσον τοῦ ἀδελφοῦ αὐτοῦ;Read the interlinear
Cross-references for 1 Corinthians 6:5
- 1 Corinthians 4:14I write not these things to shame you, but to admonish you as my beloved children.
- 1 Corinthians 11:14Doth not even nature itself teach you, that, if a man have long hair, it is a dishonor to him?
- 1 Corinthians 15:34Awake to soberness righteously, and sin not; for some have no knowledge of God: I speak this to move you to shame.
- 1 Corinthians 3:18Let no man deceive himself. If any man thinketh that he is wise among you in this world, let him become a fool, that he may become wise.
- 1 Corinthians 4:10We are fools for Christ’s sake, but ye are wise in Christ; we are weak, but ye are strong; ye have glory, but we have dishonor.
- Proverbs 14:8The wisdom of the prudent is to understand his way; But the folly of fools is deceit.
- James 1:5But if any of you lacketh wisdom, let him ask of God, who giveth to all liberally and upbraideth not; and it shall be given him.
- James 3:13Who is wise and understanding among you? let him show by his good life his works in meekness of wisdom.
Commentaries on 1 Corinthians 6:5
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 5Is it so, that there is not a wise man among you? - Have you none among yourselves that can be arbitrators of the differences which arise, that you go to the heathen tribunals?Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 5I speak to your shame - I declare that which is a reproach to you, that your matters of dispute are carried before pagan tribunals. Is it so - Can it be that in the Christian church - the church collected in refined and enlightened Corinth - there is not a single member so wise, intelligent and prudent that his brethren may have confidence in him, and refer their causes to him? Can this be the case in a church that boasts so much of its wisdom, and that…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 4-6I say this to your shame: It is a problem for Christians to settle disputes in non-religious courts, as if no one in the church can help resolve them.Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 55. your shame--Thus he checks their puffed-up spirit (1Co 5:2; compare 1Co 15:34). To shame you out of your present unworthy course of litigation before the heathen, I have said (1Co 6:4), "Set the least esteemed in the Church to judge." Better even this, than your present course. Is it so?--Are you in such a helpless state that, &c.? not a wise man--though ye admire "wisdom" so much on other occasions (1Co 1:5, 22). Paul alludes probably to the title…Read the comment
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Commentaries on 1 Corinthians 6
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Calvin’s Commentaries
- John Wesley’s Notes
- Illustrated New Testament
- Burkitt’s Expository Notes
- Darby Translation Notes
- Family Bible Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- The People’s New Testament
- Robertson’s Word Pictures
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Original Douay–Rheims Annotations
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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