1 Corinthians 6:1-11
If any of you has a dispute with another, do you dare to take it before the ungodly for judgment instead of before the Lord’s people?
I say this to shame you. Is it possible that there is nobody among you wise enough to judge a dispute between believers? But instead, one brother takes another to court—and this in front of unbelievers!
The very fact that you have lawsuits among you means you have been completely defeated already.
Or do you not know that wrongdoers will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: Neither the sexually immoral nor idolaters nor adulterers nor men who have sex with men nor thieves nor the greedy nor drunkards nor slanderers nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God. And that is what some of you were. But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God.
Christians should not take one another to court, as some of the Corinthians have done. Jews did not take cases before Gentile courts - not because the courts were corrupt, but because it would be an admission of Jewish inability to operate their own laws. Surely the Christian community - their 'wise' Corinthians - should be capable of settling internal disputes. Better to be wronged than drag one another to court.
Why?
Christians should not take one another to court, for we love each other, if there is a dispute among us, there is someone wise to judge a dispute between believers.
Why take suit before the unbelievers? It is shame among the Christian and churches.
It is shame to take a Christian dispute before the ungodly for judgment. For we are love and righteousness people before the Lord. We have excellent laws and power beyond this world.
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信徒的身份權柄是超越世界的。為什麼不在教會裏處理，怎麼去教會外法院，讓不義的人來審判基督徒，不是矮化自己嗎？豈不是教會的羞恥?將來基督徒要審判天使，今天面對的都是短暫的事，為此事使弟兄跌倒還是得著一個弟兄?聖經的原則最高是公義，公義中包含愛！不可去欺壓人。愛是不求自己的益處！世界以競爭為原則，教會是以愛為原則。
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How?
Love is the true value among Christians!
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