1 Corinthians 6:4 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

⁴ If you have ordinary cases, then, do you appoint as judges those who have no standing in the church?

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁴ If then ye have judgments of things pertaining to this life, set them to judge who are least esteemed in the church.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁴ If then you do have such cases of everyday life to decide, why do you appoint [as judges to lay them before] those who [from the standpoint] of the church count for least and are without standing?

American Standard Version (1901)

⁴ If then ye have to judge things pertaining to this life, do ye set them to judge who are of no account in the church?

Common English Bible

⁴ So then if you have ordinary lawsuits, do you appoint people as judges who aren’t respected by the church?

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁴ Therefore, if you have matters to judge concerning this age, why not appoint those who are most contemptible in the Church to judge these things!

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁴ If therefore you have judgments of things pertaining to this world, set them to judge, who are the most despised in the church.

1 Corinthians 6:4 Cross References

1 Corinthians 5:12

For what have I to do with judging those outside? Are you not judges of those who are inside?

1 Corinthians 6:3

Do you not know that we are to judge angels, to say nothing of ordinary matters?

1 Corinthians 6:5

I say this to your shame. Can it be that there is no one person wise enough to decide between brothers and sisters?