Instead, you yourselves cheat and do wrong, even against your own brothers!
Parallel translations
- WEB No, but you yourselves do wrong, and defraud, and that against your brothers.
- KJV Nay, ye do wrong, and defraud, and that your brethren.
- NKJV No, you yourselves do wrong and cheat, and you do these things to your brethren!
- NASB On the contrary, you yourselves do wrong and defraud. And this to your brothers and sisters!
- NLT Instead, you yourselves are the ones who do wrong and cheat even your fellow believers.
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Quick answer
Worse still, they themselves commit wrong and fraud against fellow believers. It matters because injuring a brother contradicts the love that should mark Christ's people.
Overview
Paul exposes the deeper problem: they are not merely failing to absorb wrongs but actively wronging and defrauding their own brothers. Such behavior toward fellow members of Christ's body is a grave inconsistency with their faith. This leads into his sober warning about the kind of life that has no place in God's kingdom.
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- 1 Th 4:6and 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.
- Col 3:25Whoever does wrong will be repaid for his wrong, and there is no favoritism.
- Mark 10:19You 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.’”
- Mic 2:2They covet fields and seize them; they take away houses. They deprive a man of his home, a fellow man of his inheritance.
- Lev 19:13You must not defraud your neighbor or rob him. You must not withhold until morning the wages due a hired hand.
- Mal 3:5“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 wages and deny justice to the foreigner but do not fear Me,” says the LORD of Hosts.
- Jas 5:4Look, the wages you withheld from the workmen who mowed your fields are crying out against you. The cries of the harvesters have reached the ears of the Lord of Hosts.
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