On the contrary, you yourselves do wrong and defraud. And this to your brothers and sisters!
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.
- 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!
- 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 one should take advantage of and wrong a brother or sister in this matter; because the Lord is an avenger in all these things, as also we forewarned you and testified.
- Col 3:25But he who does wrong will receive again for the wrong that he has done, and there is no partiality.
- Mark 10:19You know the commandments: ‘Do not murder,’ ‘Do not commit adultery,’ ‘Do not steal,’ ‘Do not give false testimony,’ ‘Do not defraud,’ ‘Honor your father and mother.’”
- Mic 2:2They covet fields, and seize them; and houses, and take them away: and they oppress a man and his house, even a man and his heritage.
- Lev 19:13“‘You shall not oppress your neighbor, nor rob him. “‘The wages of a hired servant shall not remain with you all night until the morning.
- Mal 3:5I will come near to you to judgment; and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, and against the adulterers, and against the perjurers, and against those who oppress the hireling in his wages, the widow, and the fatherless, and who deprive the foreigner of justice, and don’t fear me,” says Yahweh of Armies.
- Jas 5:4Behold, the wages of the laborers who mowed your fields, which you have kept back by fraud, cry out, and the cries of those who reaped have entered into the ears of the Lord of Armies.
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