Nay, ye do wrong, and defraud, and that your brethren.
Parallel translations
- WEB No, but you yourselves do wrong, and defraud, and that against your brothers.
- BSB Instead, you yourselves cheat and do wrong, even against your own brothers!
- 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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Cross-references · 7
- 1 Th 4:6That 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.
- Col 3:25But he that doeth wrong shall receive for the wrong which he hath done: and there is no respect of persons.
- Mark 10:19Thou 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.
- Mic 2:2And 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.
- Lev 19:13Thou 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.
- Mal 3:5And 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.
- Jas 5:4Behold, 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.
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