Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

Dare any of you, having a matter against another, go to law before the unjust, and not before the saints?

Bible References

Having

Matthew 18:15
“If your brother sins, go and show him his fault in private; if he listens and pays attention to you, you have won back your brother.
Acts 18:14
But when Paul was about to reply, Gallio said to the Jews, “If it were a matter of some misdemeanor or serious crime, O Jews, I would have reason to put up with you;
Acts 19:38
So then, if Demetrius and the craftsmen who are with him have a complaint against anyone, the courts are in session and proconsuls are available; let them bring charges against one another there.

Go

1 Corinthians 6:6
but instead, brother goes to law against brother, and that before [judges who are] unbelievers?

The saints

1 Corinthians 1:2
To the church of God in Corinth, to those sanctified (set apart, made holy) in Christ Jesus, who are selected and called as saints (God’s people), together with all those who in every place call on and honor the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, their Lord and ours:
1 Corinthians 14:33
for God [who is the source of their prophesying] is not a God of confusion and disorder but of peace and order.As [is the practice] in all the churches of the saints (God’s people),
1 Corinthians 16:1
Now concerning the money collected for [the relief of] the saints [in Jerusalem], you are to do the same as I directed the churches of Galatia to do.