1 Corinthians 6:1
Good News Translation
If any of you have a dispute with another Christian, how dare you go before heathen judges instead of letting God's people settle the matter?

New Revised Standard Version
When any of you has a grievance against another, do you dare to take it to court before the unrighteous, instead of taking it before the saints?

Contemporary English Version
When one of you has a complaint against another, do you take your complaint to a court of sinners? Or do you take it to God's people?

New American Bible
How can any one of you with a case against another dare to bring it to the unjust for judgment instead of to the holy ones?

Douay-Rheims Bible
Dare any of you, having a matter against another, go to be judged before the unjust: and not before the saints?

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Dare any of you, having a matter against another, go to be judged before the unjust: and not before the saints?

having.

Matthew 18:15-17 But if thy brother shall offend against thee, go, and rebuke him between thee and him alone. If he shall hear thee, thou shalt gain thy brother. . . .

Acts 18:14,15 And when Paul was beginning to open his mouth, Gallio said to the Jews: If it were some matter of injustice or an heinous deed, O Jews, I should with reason bear with you. . . .

Acts 19:38 But if Demetrius and the craftsmen that are with him have a matter against any man, the courts of justice are open: and there are proconsuls. Let them accuse one another.

go.

1 Corinthians 6:6,7 But brother goeth to law with brother: and that before unbelievers. . . .

the saints.

1 Corinthians 1:2 To the church of God that is at Corinth, to them that are sanctified in Christ Jesus, called to be saints, with all that invoke the name of our Lord Jesus Christ in every place of theirs and ours.

1 Corinthians 14:33 For God is not the God of dissension, but of peace: as also I teach in all the churches of the saints.

1 Corinthians 16:1,15 Now concerning the collections that are made for the saints: as I have given order to the churches of Galatia, so do ye also. . . .

Context
Lawsuits among Believers
1Dare any of you, having a matter against another, go to be judged before the unjust: and not before the saints? 2Know you not that the saints shall judge this world? And if the world shall be judged by you, are you unworthy to judge the smallest matters?…
Cross References
Matthew 5:45
That you may be the children of your Father who is in heaven, who maketh his sun to rise upon the good, and bad, and raineth upon the just and the unjust.

Matthew 18:17
And if he will not hear them: tell the church. And if he will not hear the church, let him be to thee as the heathen and publican.

1 Corinthians 5:12
For what have I to do to judge them that are without? Do not you judge them that are within?

1 Corinthians 6:5
I speak to your shame. Is it so that there is not among you any one wise man that is able to judge between his brethren?

1 Corinthians 5:13
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