8 Instead, you yourselves cheat and do wrong, and you do this to your brothers and sisters.
8 Nay, ye do wrong, and defraud, and that your brethren.
8 But you yourselves wrong and defraud--even your own brothers!
8 All you're doing is providing fuel for more wrong, more injustice, bringing more hurt to the people of your own spiritual family.
8 No, you yourselves do wrong and cheat, and you do these things to your brethren!
8 Instead, you yourselves are the ones who do wrong and cheat even your fellow believers.
Matthew Henry's Commentary on 1 Corinthians 6:8
Commentary on 1 Corinthians 6:1-8
(Read 1 Corinthians 6:1-8)
Christians should not contend with one another, for they are brethren. This, if duly attended to, would prevent many law-suits, and end many quarrels and disputes. In matters of great damage to ourselves or families, we may use lawful means to right ourselves, but Christians should be of a forgiving temper. Refer the matters in dispute, rather than go to law about them. They are trifles, and may easily be settled, if you first conquer your own spirits. Bear and forbear, and the men of least skill among you may end your quarrels. It is a shame that little quarrels should grow to such a head among Christians, that they cannot be determined by the brethren. The peace of a man's own mind, and the calm of his neighbourhood, are worth more than victory. Lawsuits could not take place among brethren, unless there were faults among them.