1 Corinthians 6:5

Conflict and reconciliation Wisdom Shame

³ Know ye not that we shall judge angels? how much more things that pertain to this life?

⁴ If then ye have judgments of things pertaining to this life, set them to judge who are least esteemed in the church.

I speak to your shame. Is it so, that there is not a wise man among you? no, not one that shall be able to judge between his brethren?

⁶ But brother goeth to law with brother, and that before the unbelievers.

⁷ 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?

Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.

Compare

BSB: I say this to your shame. Is there really no one among you wise enough to arbitrate between his brothers?
KJV: I speak to your shame. Is it so, that there is not a wise man among you? no, not one that shall be able to judge between his brethren?
WEB: I say this to move you to shame. Isn’t there even one wise man among you who would be able to decide between his brothers?
ASV: I say [this] to move you to shame. What, cannot there be [found] among you one wise man who shall be able to decide between his brethren,
DARBY: I speak to you [to put you] to shame. Thus there is not a wise person among you, not even one, who shall be able to decide between his brethren!
BLB: I speak to you⁺ for shame. Thus is there no one wise among you⁺ who will be able to discern in the midst of his brother?

ÅB: Til skam for dere sier jeg det. Så finnes det da ikke noen vis mann iblant dere, ikke en eneste én, som kan skille tretten for sin bror?
OTB: Jeg sier dette til deres skam. Er det virkelig slik at det ikke finnes én klok person blant dere som vil være i stand til å avgjøre mellom sine brødre eller søstre?
B1930: Til skam for eder sier jeg det. Så finnes det da ikke nogen vis mann iblandt eder, ikke en eneste én, som kan skille tretten for sin bror?

Study notes (Tyndale)

Original text and word study

Cross references

1 Corinthians 4:14
I write not these things to shame you, but as my beloved sons I warn you.
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1 Corinthians 15:34
Awake to righteousness, and sin not; for some have not the knowledge of God: I speak this to your shame.
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James 3:13–18
Who is a wise man and endued with knowledge among you? let him shew out of a good conversation his works with meekness of wisdom.
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1 Corinthians 4:10
We are fools for Christ’s sake, but ye are wise in Christ; we are weak, but ye are strong; ye are honourable, but we are despised.
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Proverbs 14:8
The wisdom of the prudent is to understand his way: but the folly of fools is deceit.
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1 Corinthians 11:14
Doth not even nature itself teach you, that, if a man have long hair, it is a shame unto him?
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James 1:5
If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, that giveth to all men liberally, and upbraideth not; and it shall be given him.
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1 Corinthians 3:18
Let no man deceive himself. If any man among you seemeth to be wise in this world, let him become a fool, that he may be wise.
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