1 Corinthians 6:4 BSB

1 Corinthians 6:4

So if you need to settle everyday matters, do you appoint as judges those of no standing in the church?

BSB

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ASV

If then ye have to judge things pertaining to this life, do ye set them to judge who are of no account in the church?

KJV

If then ye have judgments of things pertaining to this life, set them to judge who are least esteemed in the church.

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Commentary

3 voices

John Gill

1697–1771

Exposition of the New Testament (1746-1748)

If then ye have judgments of things pertaining to this life,.... Not judgements relating to life and death, for these were not in the power of a Jewish sanhedrim now, and much less of a Christian community, but were wholly in the power of the Roman magistrates; but judgments relating to the common affairs of life, or what the Jews call דיני ממונות, "pecuniary judgments" (b), in distinction from דיני נפשות, "judgments of souls", or capital ones.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

John Wesley

1703–1791

Explanatory Notes upon the New Testament (1755)

Them who are of no esteem in the church - That is, heathens, who, as such, could be in no esteem with the Christians.

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible (1832)

Things pertaining to this life - They could examine all civil cases among themselves, which they were permitted to determine without any hinderance from the heathen governments under which they lived. Who are least esteemed in the Church - Τους εξουθενημενους, Those who were in the lowest order of judges; for the apostle may refer here to the order in the Jewish benches, as Dr. Lightfoot conjectures, of which there were five, viz.: - 1. The great Sanhedrin, consisting of seventy-two elders, which presided in Jerusalem. 2. The little Sanhedrin of twenty-five, in large cities, out of Jerusalem.

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Original language & word study

13 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
βιωτικὰ	biōtika	Things of this life	G982 →
μὲν	men	indeed	G3303 →
οὖν	oun	so	G3767 →
κριτήρια	kritēria	judgment [as to]	G2922 →
ἐὰν	ean	if	G1437 →
ἔχητε,	echēte	you shall have,	G2192 →
τοὺς	tous	the [ones]	G3588 →
ἐξουθενημένους	exouthenēmenous	despised	G1848 →
ἐν	en	in	G1722 →
τῇ	tēa	the	G3588 →
ἐκκλησίᾳ,	ekklēsia	church,	G1577 →
τούτους	toutous	those	G3778 →
καθίζετε.	kathizete	set you up!	G2523 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

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Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
1 Corinthians 5:12
What business of mine is it to judge those outside the church? Are you not to judge those inside?
leads to
- Mark 4:11
  He replied, “The mystery of the kingdom of God has been given to you, but to those on the outside everything is expressed in parables,
- Luke 12:14
  But Jesus replied, “Man, who appointed Me judge or executor between you?”
- 1 Timothy 3:7
  Furthermore, he must have a good reputation with outsiders, so that he will not fall into disgrace and into the snare of the devil.
- 1 Corinthians 5:3–5
  Although I am absent from you in body, I am present with you in spirit, and I have already pronounced judgment on the one who did this, just as if I were present.
- 1 Thessalonians 4:12
  Then you will behave properly toward outsiders, without being dependent on anyone.

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Where the connections lead

04Related verses

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06About 1 Corinthians

The record, by era

Where the connections lead

Commentary

Original language & word study

The walk

Related verses

Featured studies on this passage

About 1 Corinthians