1 Corinthians 6:11

Lange's Commentary on the Holy Scriptures: Critical, Doctrinal and Homiletical - 1 Corinthians 6:1-11

XI.—A LACK OF PROPER CHURCH SPIRIT IN THE MANAGEMENT OF THE CIVIL RELATIONS OF THE CHURCH-MEMBERS AMONG THEMSELVES. LITIGATION BEFORE HEATHEN TRIBUNALS1 Corinthians 6:1-111Dare any of you, having a matter against another, go to the law before the unjust, 2and not before the saints? Do [Or1 do] 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 [to say... read more

Frederick Brotherton Meyer

F.B. Meyer's 'Through the Bible' Commentary - 1 Corinthians 6:1-11

Settling Differences between Brethren 1 Corinthians 6:1-11 The Apostle was clearly of the opinion that it was wiser for a Christian to bear injustice and wrong than to go to law before a heathen tribunal. It would have been a happy solution of myriads of disputes if his advice had been followed. Where a course of lawless crime has to be arrested in the interests of the weak and defenseless, it is necessary to call in the law and police to vindicate and protect; but when our private,... read more

G. Campbell Morgan

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible - 1 Corinthians 6:1-20

The apostle now passed to another dereliction. Disputes in the church were being submitted to heathen tribunals. What these matters were we are not told. The teaching of the apostle is clear, and has application for all time. Disputes among saints should be settled between saints, and wholly within the confines of the church. The argument as to the fitness of the saints for the work is that as they will finally have to judge angels, surely they ought to be able to judge things pertaining to... read more

Robert Neighbour

Wells of Living Water Commentary - 1 Corinthians 6:1-20

The Indwelling Holy Spirit 1 Corinthians 6:1-20 INTRODUCTORY WORDS The studies in the Epistle to the Corinthians are not written to be shelved, but to be carefully studied, and followed, lest we fall, as saints, into the same line of carnalities, as those into which they fell. In the last study we discovered a deplorable condition in the Church at Corinth. Now, other shortcomings are before us. All of these are due to the one fact, the Corinthians failed to walk in the Spirit, and to yield... read more

James Nisbet

James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary - 1 Corinthians 6:11

LIVING MIRACLES‘And 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 Corinthians 6:11 The Evangel preached by St. Paul works miracles. It acted in some measure on all ranks of society; it even saved the waifs and strays of heathen cities like Rome, Ephesus, and Corinth. Men sometimes ask for ethics, for morality to be preached. But such preaching has been tried and it has failed over and over... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - 1 Corinthians 6:1-20

Important Scandals That Have To Be Dealt With (5:1-6:20). Having dealt with the central spiritual concern which has been to do with their divisiveness over secondary matters, over ‘the wisdom of words’, which were in danger of squeezing out ‘the word of the cross’ (1 Corinthians 1:18), Paul now moves abruptly on to two scandals which are among them. These are important for their own sake, but equally important because they demonstrate that the teachers who are opposing him have clearly not... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - 1 Corinthians 6:9-11

‘Do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the Kingly Rule of God?’ Do they not realise in all this that those who behave unjustly or wrongly thereby reveal that they are disqualified from the coming Kingly Rule of God? Paul is always quite firm in his view that those who continually fail to reveal Christian virtues, those who do not seek to ‘put on the new man’, thereby reveal that they are not really truly Christian at all. Those who are at ease in Zion may well discover that they... read more

Arthur Peake

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - 1 Corinthians 6:1-11

1 Corinthians 6:1-1 Kings : . The Scandal of Christians Suing each other before Heathen Tribunals.— Paul has prepared for his next rebuke by his reference to the function of the church to judge its own members. But alas, Christians are to be found who will go so far as shamelessly to carry their disputes with each other before a tribunal of the unrighteous (what a paradox to appeal for justice to the unjust!) instead of submitting them to their fellow-Christians. They cannot be so... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - 1 Corinthians 6:11

In the two last verses the apostle had pronounced a terrible sentence, especially to the Corinthians, who, having been heathens lately, had wallowed in a great deal of this guilt; he therefore here, that they might be humbled, and have low thoughts of themselves, and not be puffed up, (as he had before charged them), mindeth them, that some of them had been guilty of some of these enormous sins, some of them of one or some of them, and others of other of them. But, that they might not despair... read more

Joseph Exell

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - 1 Corinthians 6:9-11

CRITICAL NOTESTRANSITIONAL SECTION.—1 Corinthians 6:9-111 Corinthians 6:9.—Query, is the particular “wrong” and “defrauding” in 1 Corinthians 6:8-9 connected with 2 Corinthians 7:12, the case of “the incestuous person”? Had the father been ready to appeal to a secular court for redress? Some such connection would explain the transition in this verse from “litigation” to “fornication.” [In 2 Corinthians 7:2 Paul uses in negatived connection with himself “wrong” and “defraud.”] N.B., like Romans... read more

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