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1 Corinthians 6:8
8Instead, you yourselves hurt other people, and you even rob them. And those other people are believers like you!
1 Corinthians 6:8 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)Nay, ye do wrong, and defraud, and that your brethren.
- New International Version (NIV)Instead, you yourselves cheat and do wrong, and you do this to your brothers and sisters.
- English Standard Version (ESV)But you yourselves wrong and defraud—even your own brothers!
- New King James Version (NKJV)No, you yourselves do wrong and cheat, and you do these things to your brethren!
Context of 1 Corinthians 6:8
6But instead, some believers among you accuse other believers in front of judges. And those judges are not believers! 7When you accuse each other like that, it shows that you have already failed. It would be better to accept it when other people hurt you. Even if people rob you, it would be better to accept it. Instead, you yourselves hurt other people, and you even rob them. And those other people are believers like you! 9People who do wrong things like that will never belong to God's kingdom. You surely know that. Do not think that people like this will receive God's good things: People who have sex in wrong ways. People who worship idols. People who have sex with anyone that they are not married to. Men who have sex with other men. 10People who rob other people. People who want many things for themselves. Drunks. People who insult other people. People who deceive other people to take things from them. None of these people will receive the good things of God's kingdom.
Read all of 1 Corinthians 61 Corinthians 6:8 word by word
ἀλλ᾽ ὑμεῖς ἀδικεῖτε καὶ ἀποστερεῖτε, καὶ τοῦτο ἀδελφούς.Read the interlinear
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Cross-references for 1 Corinthians 6:8
- Leviticus 19:13You must not rob another person. You must not keep a slave's money until the morning.
- Micah 2:2When they want fields, they take them from other people. When they want houses, they take them. These cruel people take other people's homes and fields; then those people's families have nothing.
- Malachi 3:5At that time, I will come among you as your judge. I will speak clearly against those who have done wrong things. I will punish the magicians, the adulterers and those who tell lies against other people. I will punish those people who are cruel to their workers, or they deceive widows or children who have no family. And I will punish those who do not help foreigners who live among them. People who do those things show that they do not respect me.’ That is what the Lord Almighty says.
- Mark 10:19You know God's rules: “Do not kill anyone. Do not have sex with anyone who is not your wife. Do not rob anyone. Do not say things that are not true about people. Do not take things that are not yours. Love your father and your mother, and obey them.” ’
- Colossians 3:25Remember that God will punish anyone who does wrong things. He always judges people correctly, whoever they are.
- 1 Thessalonians 4:6No man among you should ever have sex with the wife of a Christian friend. That would be the same as if you robbed him. It would be a bad thing to do against him. Remember that the Lord will punish everyone who does things like that. We have already told you that. We warned you very seriously about it.
- James 5:4But you have not paid the workers in your fields the money that you should have paid them. You have cheated them. Now they are shouting against you. The Lord of great power has heard them when they cry to him for help.
Commentaries on 1 Corinthians 6:8
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 8Nay, ye do wrong - Far from suffering, ye are the aggressors; and defraud your pious, long-suffering brethren, who submit to this wrong rather than take those methods of redressing their grievances which the spirit of Christianity forbids. Probably the apostle refers to him who had taken his father's wife.Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 8Nay, ye do wrong - Instead of enduring wrong patiently and cheerfully. they were themselves guilty oi injustice and fraud. And that your brethren - Your fellow Christians. As if they had injured those of their own family - those to whom they ought to be attached by most tender ties. The offence in such cases is aggravated, not because it is in itself any worse to injure a Christian than another man, but because it shows a deeper depravity, when a man…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 8Some of the Corinthian believers were not following Christ's example of sacrificial love. They were cheating even their fellow believers. Their actions and attitudes were wrong.Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 88. ye--emphatic. Ye, whom your Lord commanded to return good for evil, on the contrary, "do wrong (by taking away) and defraud" (by retaining what is entrusted to you; or "defraud" marks the effect of the "wrong" done, namely, the loss inflicted). Not only do ye not bear, but ye inflict wrongs.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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