1 Corinthians 6:8

Nay, you do wrong and defraud,.... So far were they from taking and acting up to the advice given, that instead of taking wrong, they did wrong; and instead of suffering themselves to be defrauded,…

Nay, ye do wrong ... - Instead of enduring wrong patiently and cheerfully. they were themselves guilty oi injustice and fraud. And that your brethren - Your fellow Christians. As if they had injured…

Nay, ye do wrong - Far from suffering, ye are the aggressors; and defraud your pious, long-suffering brethren, who submit to this wrong rather than take those methods of redressing their grievances…

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…

Nay, you do wrong, and defraud, and that(your) brethren Not only are you not willing to suffer injury, but you inflict it, and you inflict it upon those with whom you are conjoined in relations as…