1 Corinthians 6:8 “Instead, you yourselves cheat and do wrong, even against your own brot…”

1 Corinthians 6:8

Instead, you yourselves cheat and do wrong, even against your own brothers!

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

Nay, ye do wrong, and defraud, and that your brethren.

World English Bible

No, but you yourselves do wrong and defraud, and that against your brothers.

American Standard Version

Nay, but ye yourselves do wrong, and defraud, and that your brethren.

Geneva Bible 1599

Nay, yee your selues doe wrong, and doe harme, and that to your brethren.

Darby Translation

But ye do wrong, and defraud, and this [your] brethren.

Young's Literal Translation

but ye — ye do injustice, and ye defraud, and these — brethren!

Bible in Basic English

So far from doing this, you yourselves do wrong and take your brothers' property.

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Cross references

“Nay, ye do wrong, and defraud, and that your brethren.”

1 Thessalonians 4:6 Colossians 3:25 Leviticus 19:13 Micah 2:2 Malachi 3:5 Mark 10:19

1 Thessalonians 4:6 · BSB

and no one should ever violate or exploit his brother in this regard, because the Lord will avenge all such acts, as we have already told you and solemnly warned you.

Colossians 3:25 · BSB

Whoever does wrong will be repaid for his wrong, and there is no favoritism.

Leviticus 19:13 · BSB

You must not defraud your neighbor or rob him. You must not withhold until morning the wages due a hired hand.

Micah 2:2 · BSB

They covet fields and seize them; they take away houses. They deprive a man of his home, a fellow man of his inheritance.

Malachi 3:5 · BSB

“Then I will draw near to you for judgment. And I will be a swift witness against sorcerers and adulterers and perjurers, against oppressors of the widowed and fatherless, and against those who defraud laborers of their…

Mark 10:19 · BSB

You know the commandments: ‘Do not murder, do not commit adultery, do not steal, do not bear false witness, do not cheat others, honor your father and mother.’ ”

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

7The very fact that you have lawsuits among you means that you are thoroughly defeated already. Why not rather be wronged? Why not rather be cheated?

9Do you not know that the wicked will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: Neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor men who submit to or perform homosexual acts,

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