Now therefore there is utterly a fault among you, because ye go to law one with another. Why do ye not rather take wrong? why do ye not rather suffer yourselves to be defrauded?
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Gill's Exposition
Now therefore there is utterly a fault among you,.... Or a "defect": a want of brotherly love, or there would be no occasion to go to law at all; a want of wisdom and conduct, or proper persons would…
Barnes' Notes
There is utterly a fault - There is ALtogether a fault; or you are entirely wrong in this thing. That ye go to law ... - That is, in the sense under discussion, or before pagan magistrates. This was…
Adam Clarke
There is utterly a fault among you - There is a most manifest defect among you,
1. Of peaceableness;
2. Of brotherly love;
3. Of mutual confidence; and
4. Of reverence for God, and concern for the…
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
Why do ye not rather take wrong? Cf. St Mat 5:38-42.
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