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# Connecting Statement:
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Paul explains how believers are to settle disagreements with other believers.
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# dispute
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in this case a legal complaint, argument, or disagreement
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# does he dare ... holy people?
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Paul is angry because he thinks that the Corinthians are doing a great wrong by taking their disputes with each other to the civil court. Alternate translation: "it is wrong for him to dare ... holy people." or "he should fear God and not ... God's holy people." (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-rquestion]])
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# to go to law before the unrighteous rather than before God's holy people
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to have the unrighteous, not God's holy people, decide who is right and wrong and how to punish the wrongdoer
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# the unrighteous
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judges who do not believe in Jesus
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