1 Corinthians 6 · Verse 8

1 Corinthians 6:8

Nay, ye do wrong, and defraud, and that your brethren.
1 Corinthians 6:8, King James Version

1 Corinthians 6:8 in other translations

BSBInstead, you yourselves cheat and do wrong, even against your own brothers!
WEBNo, but you yourselves do wrong and defraud, and that against your brothers.
ASVNay, but ye yourselves do wrong, and defraud, and that your brethren.
YLTbut ye--ye do injustice, and ye defraud, and these--brethren!
DARBYBut ye do wrong, and defraud, and this your brethren.
BBESo far from doing this, you yourselves do wrong and take your brothers' property.
WebsterBut ye do wrong, and defraud, and that your brethren.

What does 1 Corinthians 6:8 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown
8. ye--emphatic. Ye, whom your Lord commanded to return good for evil, on the contrary, "do wrong (by taking away) and defraud" (by retaining what is entrusted to you; or "defraud" marks the effect of the "wrong" done, namely, the loss inflicted). Not only do ye not bear, but ye inflict wrongs.

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown, 1871 · public domain

Barnes' Notes
Verse 8. Nay, ye do wrong, etc. Instead of enduring wrong patiently and cheerfully, they were themselves guilty of injustice and fraud.

And that your brethren. Your fellow Christians. As if they had injured those of their own family--those to whom they ought to be attached by most tender ties. The offence in such cases is aggravated, not because it is in itself any worse to injure a Christian than another man, but because it shows a deeper depravity, when a man overcomes all the ties of kindness and love, and injures those who are near to him, than it does where no such ties exist. It is for this reason that parricide, infanticide, etc., are regarded everywhere as crimes of peculiar atrocity, because a child or a parent must have sundered all the tenderest cords of virtue before it could be done.

(a) "defraud" 1Thes 4:6

Albert Barnes, 1834 · public domain

Adam Clarke's Commentary
Verse 8 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 which the spirit of Christianity forbids. Probably the apostle refers to him who had taken his father's wife.

Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on 1 Corinthians 6:1-8

Christians should not contend with one another, for they are brethren. This, if duly attended to, would prevent many law-suits, and end many quarrels and disputes. In matters of great damage to ourselves or families, we may use lawful means to right ourselves, but Christians should be of a forgiving temper. Refer the matters in dispute, rather than go to law about them. They are trifles, and may easily be settled…

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1 Corinthians 6:8 in the original Greek

Word-by-word with transliteration, English gloss and Strong's number. Tap a number for the full definition and every place the word is used.

ἀλλ᾽all᾽ButG235
ὑμεῖςhumeisyou yourselvesG4771
ἀδικεῖτεadikeitedo wrongG91
καὶkaiandG2532
ἀποστερεῖτε,apostereitedefraud,G650
καὶkaiandG2532
τοῦτοtoutothis [thing]G3778
ἀδελφούς.adelphousto brothers!G80

Source: STEPBible TAHOT/TAGNT (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Cross references for 1 Corinthians 6:8

  • 1 Thessalonians 4:6

    That no man go beyond and defraud his brother in any matter: because that the Lord is the avenger of all such, as we also have forewarned you and testified.

  • Colossians 3:25

    But he that doeth wrong shall receive for the wrong which he hath done: and there is no respect of persons.

  • Malachi 3:5

    And I will come near to you to judgment; and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, and against the adulterers, and against false swearers, and against those that oppress the hireling in his wages, the widow, and the fatherless, and that turn aside the stranger from his right, and fear not me, saith the Lord of hosts.

  • Leviticus 19:13

    Thou shalt not defraud thy neighbour, neither rob him: the wages of him that is hired shall not abide with thee all night until the morning.

  • James 5:4

    Behold, the hire of the labourers who have reaped down your fields, which is of you kept back by fraud, crieth: and the cries of them which have reaped are entered into the ears of the Lord of sabaoth.

  • Micah 2:2

    And they covet fields, and take them by violence; and houses, and take them away: so they oppress a man and his house, even a man and his heritage.

  • Mark 10:19

    Thou knowest the commandments, Do not commit adultery, Do not kill, Do not steal, Do not bear false witness, Defraud not, Honour thy father and mother.

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Le 19:13; Mic 2:2; Mal 3:5; *marg:
Mr 10:19; Col 3:25; 1Th 4:6; Jas 5:4

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Context

  • 1 Corinthians 6:7

    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?

  • 1 Corinthians 6:8

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

  • 1 Corinthians 6:9

    Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind,

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1 Corinthians 6:8 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909		Empero vosotros hacéis la injuria, y defraudáis, y esto á los hermanos.
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885		Mais vous, vous faites des injustices et vous faites tort, et cela à vos frères.
German
Elberfelder 1871		Aber ihr tut unrecht und übervorteilt, und das Brüder!
Latin
Clementine Vulgate		Sed vos injuriam facitis, et fraudatis: et hoc fratribus.