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Complete Jewish Bible

1 Corinthians 6:8

Instead, you yourselves wrong and cheat; and you do it to your own brothers!

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Arbitration;   Fraternity;   Lawsuits;   Litigation;   Retaliation;   Theft and Thieves;   Thompson Chain Reference - Business Life;   Fraud;   Vices;   The Topic Concordance - Judges;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Reproof;  

Dictionaries:

- Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Brother;   Justice;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Corinthians, First and Second, Theology of;   Justice;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Synagogue;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Philosophy in the New Testament;   1 Corinthians;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Christianity;   Corinthians, First Epistle to the;   Decision;   Paul the Apostle;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Business;   Fellowship;   Honest;   Moses;   Parousia;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Conscience;  

Devotionals:

- Every Day Light - Devotion for November 8;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Instead, you yourselves do wrong and cheat—and you do this to brothers and sisters!
King James Version (1611)
Nay, you do wrong and defraud, and that your brethren.
King James Version
Nay, ye do wrong, and defraud, and that your brethren.
English Standard Version
But you yourselves wrong and defraud—even your own brothers!
New American Standard Bible
On the contrary, you yourselves do wrong and defraud. And this to your brothers and sisters!
New Century Version
But you yourselves do wrong and cheat, and you do this to other believers!
Amplified Bible
On the contrary, it is you who wrong and defraud, and you do this even to your brothers and sisters.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
On the contrary, you yourselves wrong and defraud. You do this even to your brethren.
Legacy Standard Bible
On the contrary, you yourselves wrong and defraud. You do this even to your brothers.
Berean Standard Bible
Instead, you yourselves cheat and do wrong, even against your own brothers!
Contemporary English Version
But instead, you cheat and rob other followers.
Darby Translation
But *ye* do wrong, and defraud, and this [your] brethren.
Easy-to-Read Version
But you are the ones doing wrong and cheating. And you do this to your own brothers and sisters in Christ!
Geneva Bible (1587)
Nay, yee your selues doe wrong, and doe harme, and that to your brethren.
George Lamsa Translation
No, you yourselves do wrong, and defraud even your brethren.
Good News Translation
Instead, you yourselves wrong one another and rob one another, even other believers!
Lexham English Bible
But you wrong and defraud, and do this to brothers!
Literal Translation
But you do wrong, and defraud, and these things to brothers!
American Standard Version
Nay, but ye yourselves do wrong, and defraud, and that your brethren.
Bible in Basic English
So far from doing this, you yourselves do wrong and take your brothers' property.
Hebrew Names Version
No, but you yourselves do wrong, and defraud, and that against your brothers.
International Standard Version
Instead, you yourselves practice doing wrong and cheating others, and brothers at that!1 Thessalonians 4:6;">[xr]
Etheridge Translation
8 But you injure, and you defraud, [fn] also your brethren !
Murdock Translation
But ye yourselves commit wrong, and ye defraud even your brethren.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
Nay, ye your selues do wrong, and do harme, and that to your brethren.
English Revised Version
Nay, but ye yourselves do wrong, and defraud, and that [your] brethren.
World English Bible
No, but you yourselves do wrong, and defraud, and that against your brothers.
Wesley's New Testament (1755)
Why do ye not rather suffer yourselves to be defrauded? Nay, ye do wrong, and defraud, even your brethren.
Weymouth's New Testament
On the contrary you yourselves inflict injustice and fraud, and upon brethren too.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
But and ye doen wrong, and doen fraude, and that to britheren.
Update Bible Version
No, but you yourselves do wrong, and defraud, and that [your] brothers.
Webster's Bible Translation
But ye do wrong, and defraud, and that [your] brethren.
New English Translation
But you yourselves wrong and cheat, and you do this to your brothers and sisters!
New King James Version
No, you yourselves do wrong and cheat, and you do these things to your brethren!
New Living Translation
Instead, you yourselves are the ones who do wrong and cheat even your fellow believers.
New Life Bible
Instead, you rob and do wrong to other Christians.
New Revised Standard
But you yourselves wrong and defraud—and believers at that.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Nay! but, ye, are doing wrong, and defrauding, - and that your brethren.
Douay-Rheims Bible
But you do wrong and defraud: and that to your brethren.
Revised Standard Version
But you yourselves wrong and defraud, and that even your own brethren.
Tyndale New Testament (1525)
Naye ye youre selves do wronge and robbe: and that the brethren.
Young's Literal Translation
but ye -- ye do injustice, and ye defraud, and these -- brethren!
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
but ye youre selues do wroge and defraude, and that euen the brethre.
Mace New Testament (1729)
nay, in this case, you act injuriously, and do damage even to your brethren.
Simplified Cowboy Version
Instead, y'all are out there cheating and stealing among yourselves and others.

Contextual Overview

1 How dare one of you with a complaint against another go to court before pagan judges and not before God's people? 2 Don't you know that God's people are going to judge the universe? If you are going to judge the universe, are you incompetent to judge these minor matters? 3 Don't you know that we will judge angels, not to mention affairs of everyday life? 4 So if you require judgments about matters of everyday life, why do you put them in front of men who have no standing in the Messianic Community? 5 I say, shame on you! Can it be that there isn't one person among you wise enough to be able to settle a dispute between brothers? 6 Instead, a brother brings a lawsuit against another brother, and that before unbelievers! 7 Actually, if you are bringing lawsuits against each other, it is already a defeat for you. Why not rather be wronged? Why not rather be cheated? 8 Instead, you yourselves wrong and cheat; and you do it to your own brothers!

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Leviticus 19:13, Micah 2:2, Malachi 3:5, *marg. Mark 10:19, Colossians 3:25, 1 Thessalonians 4:6, James 5:4

Reciprocal: Exodus 2:13 - and he said Leviticus 19:11 - shall not Leviticus 25:14 - General Esther 1:16 - done wrong Isaiah 5:7 - he looked Jeremiah 34:9 - serve Ezekiel 45:9 - take away Matthew 5:24 - there 2 Corinthians 12:20 - debates Colossians 3:13 - quarrel

Cross-References

Genesis 6:12
God saw the earth, and, yes, it was corrupt; for all living beings had corrupted their ways on the earth.
Genesis 6:17
"Then I myself will bring the flood of water over the earth to destroy from under heaven every living thing that breathes; everything on earth will be destroyed.
Genesis 19:19
Here, your servant has already found favor in your sight, and you have shown me even greater mercy by saving my life. But I can't escape to the hills, because I'm afraid the disaster will overtake me, and I will die.
Psalms 84:11
Better a day in your courtyards than a thousand [days elsewhere]. Better just standing at the door of my God's house than living in the tents of the wicked.
Psalms 145:20
Adonai protects all who love him, but all the wicked he destroys.
Proverbs 3:4
Then you will win favor and esteem in the sight of God and of people.
Proverbs 8:35
For he who finds me finds life and obtains the favor of Adonai .
Proverbs 12:2
A good man obtains Adonai 's favor, but the schemer his condemnation.
Jeremiah 31:2
From a distance Adonai appeared to me, [saying,] "I love you with an everlasting love; this is why in my grace I draw you to me.
Luke 1:30
The angel said to her, "Don't be afraid, Miryam, for you have found favor with God.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Nay, you do wrong and defraud,.... So far were they from taking and acting up to the advice given, that instead of taking wrong, they did wrong; and instead of suffering themselves to be defrauded, they defrauded others:

and that your brethren; that were of the same faith, of the same religion, and in the same church and family: in short, neither party, not the plaintiff, nor the defendant, sought anything more or less than to wrong, trick, and defraud each other; such a sad corruption and degeneracy prevailed among them: hence the apostle thought to deal plainly and closely with them, as in the following verses.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Nay, 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 overcomes all the ties of kindness and love, and injures those who are near to him, than it does where no such ties exist. It is for this reason that parricide, infanticide, etc. are regarded everywhere as crimes of special atrocity, because a child or a parent must have severed all the tenderest cords of virtue before it could be done.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 1 Corinthians 6:8. Nay, 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.


 
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