John Gill Commentary 1 Corinthians 6:7

"Nay, already it is altogether a defect in you, that ye have lawsuits one with another. Why not rather take wrong? why not rather be defrauded?" — 1 Corinthians 6:7 (ASV)

Now therefore there is utterly a fault among you
Or a "defect": a want of brotherly love, or there would be no occasion to go to law at all; a want of wisdom and conduct, or proper persons would be pitched upon, and chosen out from among themselves to be arbitrators and judge between them; and a want of care among their leaders, who else would have pointed out to them such a method of accommodation, and not have suffered them to go the lengths they did:

because you go to law one with another ;
which would never be, was there not a declension among you, a decay of your first love, and of the power of religion and true godliness:

why do you not rather take wrong why do you not rather suffer
yourselves to be defrauded ?
than to go to law, especially before unjust persons and unbelievers, taking the advice of Christ, (Matthew 5:40) It is more advisable to a believer to suffer wrong than to go to law with any man, and especially with a brother.

It is a petition in the Jewish liturgy ^F7 , ``let it please thee, O Lord God, and the God of my fathers, to deliver me this day, and every day---from hard judgment, and a severe adversary, (tyrb Nb wnyav Nybw tyrb) (Nb awhv Nyb) , "whether he be a Son of the covenant, or whether he be not a son of the covenant".''

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FOOTNOTES:

• F7: Seder Tephillot, fol. 3. 2. Ed. Basil. fol. 5. 2. Ed. Amst.