“Nay, ye do wrong, and defraud, and that your brethren.”
Instead, you yourselves cheat and do wrong, and you do this to your own brothers and sisters! — The indictment reverses the scenario: the Corinthians are not merely defending against litigation but are perpetrators themselves. The emphatic adikēte (you do wrong) and apostereite (you defraud) implicate the community in active injustice. The charge 'to your own brothers and sisters' heightens the violation—kinship language makes the betrayal intimate and theological, not merely interpersonal.
Church Fathers on 1 Corinthians 6:8
“Nay, you yourselves do wrong, and defraud, and that your brethren.” Again, it is a twofold crime, perhaps even threefold or fourfold. One, not to know how to bear being wronged. Another, actually to do wrong. A third, to commit the settlement of these matters even unto the unjust. And yet a fourth, that it should be so done to a brother. For men's offenses are not judged by the same rule, when they are committed against any chance person, and towards one's own member. For…
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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