1 Corinthians 6
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1 Corinthians 7:33-8:4 in Papyrus 15, written in the 3rd century.
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| Book | First Epistle to the Corinthians |
| Bible part | New Testament |
| Order in the Bible part | 7 |
| Category | Pauline epistles |
1 Corinthians 6 is the sixth chapter of the First Epistle to the Corinthians in the New Testament of the Christian Bible. It is authored by Paul the Apostle and Sosthenes in Ephesus. In this chapter, Paul deals with lawsuits among believers and with sexual immorality.
The New King James Version organises this chapter as follows:
Paul criticises those who take up lawsuits with other believers before the civil authorities - those who have no standing in the church. There should be people within the church who are "wise enough to decide between one believer [or brother] and another": Paul asks whether there are any? It would be better to be wronged and to be defrauded than to take a matter to court before the "unrighteous" - for that is itself a greater fraud.
Theologian Albert Barnes treats Paul's question as rhetorical:
whereas William Robertson Nicoll, in the Expositor's Greek Testament, argues that
Martin Luther, Beza, Lachmann, Osiander, Hofmann and Meyer "make the passage sterner and more telling" as an assertion than the common way of viewing it as a question, which is adopted also by Tischendorf and Ewald.
Cross reference: 1 Timothy 1:10
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