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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Gill's Exposition
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…
Barnes' Notes
Ye have judgments - Causes; controversies; suits. Things pertaining to this life - Property, etc. Set them to judge ... - The verb translated set καθίζετε kathizete may be either in the imperative…
Adam Clarke
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…
Here the apostle reproves them for going to law with one another before heathen judges for little matters; and therein blames all vexatious law-suits. In the previous chapter he had directed them to…
Cambridge Bible
judgments domes, Wiclif. See note on 1Co 6:2. The meaning (2) seems the only admissible one here, inasmuch as Christians were not likely as yet to possess secular tribunals or to hold secular trialsin…