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*1 Corinthians 6:1-2…* When any of you has a legal dispute with another, does he dare go to court before the unrighteous rather than before the saints? 2 Or do you not know that the saints will judge the world?
And if the world is to be judged by you, are you not competent to settle trivial suits?
*Commentary*
In 1 Corinthians 5:11-13 Paul summed up the issue of judgment.
He said that it is the Christian’s responsibility to judge the behavior of other Christians, but it is God alone who is to judge the behavior of non-Christians.
After all, it is Christians who confess Christ as Lord and vow to live a life that glorifies him.
When they don’t they are to be confronted, but unbelievers are to be left to God alone to judge them, for it is God they have rejected, not Christians.
Now Paul addresses a similar issue in 6:1-11.
The Corinthian Christians were taking one another to court and allowing the secular courts of the day to judge their cases.
Paul is horrified over such behavior because it, just like the incestuous man in the preceding passages, is behavior unbecoming of Christians, and Paul earnestly desires that Christ’s church remain pure.
History reveals that lawsuits in first century Greece, where Corinth was a province, were about as common as they are in the modern-day.
The case in the present passage isn’t specified, but it is possible that it involves the incestuous man and his father – a case that would have received high exposure and granted the church there great embarrassment.
Paul is furious over such a spectacle, and this prompts his teaching in chapter 6.
One can almost hear the anger and confusion in Paul’s tone.
As Gordon Fee has noted, Paul “alternates between statements of horror (vv. 1 & 6), rhetorical questions (vv.
2-4, 5b-6, 7b), sarcasm (v.
5), and threat 9vv.
8-11).”
He is clearly a man on an inspired tirade against the immature behavior of these Christians.
In verse 1 the problem is introduced, and it involves the fact that Christians are suing each other in non-Christian courts as opposed to taking their disputes to the church leaders.
The non-Christian courts are called the “unrighteous” (Greek /adikos/) but this is in reference to the fact that they were non-Christian courts as opposed to immoral courts.
The word is used in scripture in contrast to righteous people – those who call on the Lord Jesus for salvation.
Paul explains in verse 2 how ridiculous the lawsuits were.
The rhetorical question gives great insight as to the end-times judgment of God upon all who reject Jesus Christ.
In keeping with the prophecy of Daniel 7:22, that “judgment was given to the saints of the Most High,” Paul reminds his readers that God’s children will be given authority to judge the world.
The focus is the end of time, but the rhetoric is designed to show how stupid it was for the Corinthians, who will one day judge the world, to allow the same ungodly world to judge them and their legal disputes.
Now if the world is going to be judged by the believers in Corinth, how ludicrous it was for them to allow the same group of ungodly people to judge their “trivial lawsuits.”
*Food for Thought*
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