If you do this, then you will be true sons of your Father in heaven. Your Father lets the sun rise for the good people and the bad people. Your Father sends rain to people that do good and to people that do wrong.
1 Corinthians 6:1 - Easy To Read Version When one of you has something against another person, why do you go to \{the judges in the law courts\}? Those people are not right with God. So why do you let those people decide who is right? You should be ashamed! Why don’t you let God’s people decide who is right? Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Dare any of you, having a matter against another, go to law before the unjust, and not before the saints? Amplified Bible - Classic Edition DOES ANY of you dare, when he has a matter of complaint against another [brother], to go to law before unrighteous men [men neither upright nor right with God, laying it before them] instead of before the saints (the people of God)? American Standard Version (1901) Dare any of you, having a matter against his neighbor, go to law before the unrighteous, and not before the saints? Common English Bible When someone in your assembly has a legal case against another member, do they dare to take it to court to be judged by people who aren’t just, instead of by God’s people? Catholic Public Domain Version How is it that anyone of you, having a dispute against another, would dare to be judged before the iniquitous, and not before the saints? Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version DARE any of you, having a matter against another, go to be judged before the unjust, and not before the saints? |
If you do this, then you will be true sons of your Father in heaven. Your Father lets the sun rise for the good people and the bad people. Your Father sends rain to people that do good and to people that do wrong.
We have courts of law and there are judges. Do Demetrius and those men that work with him have a charge against anyone? They should go to the courts! That is where they can argue with each other!
To the church of God in Corinth, to those people that have been made holy {\cf2\super [2]} in Christ Jesus. You were called to be God’s holy people. You were called with all the people everywhere that trust in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ—their Lord and ours:
Now \{I will write\} about the collection \{of money\} for God’s people. Do the same thing that I told the Galatian churches to do:
You know that Stephanas and his family were the first believers in Achaia. They have given themselves to the service of God’s people. I ask you, brothers and sisters,
I say this to shame you. Surely there is some person in your group wise enough to judge a complaint between two brothers (believers)!