1 Corinthians 6:7

Now therefore there is utterly a fault among you, because ye go to law one with another. Why do ye not rather take wrong? why do ye not rather suffer yourselves to be defrauded? (KJV)

Then: Of course, any society which is "busy, busy" accumulating stuff to show off when they get to the top would never abide being defrauded -although, it might give kudos to defrauders. There is an icy hot chasm between Christian values and sophist values. Those with Christian attitudes back away from insistence on personal justice in the same degree that they back away from pride based on assumed superiority. With an undercut thrust Paul uses words from Socratic teaching, not a reference to Jesus. Since it's even below the Sophists to engage in court battles, these churchly Corinthians fail in both venues (Hayes p. 96). In the end, Paul uses the same principles to evaluate a Christian's actions in the field of law as he does in the field of education (Thiselton, p. 436). Giving up rights to vindication matches their abandonment of pride of knowledge.

Now: During class discussion, Lee Magness used the question, "Why not rather be wrong?" as a guiding principle. Good on-going advice for today and necessary as a personal check on behavior and attitudes.

Extra source: The First Epistle to the Corinthians: a commentary on the Greek text by Anthony C. Thiselton (Authentic Media, c2000) online at 717http://books.google.com/books?id=IHG_DNLpmroC&dq=1st+Corinthian+commentaries&printsec=frontcover&source=in&hl=en&ei=W9fQSpC1GILplAfHiumoCg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=11&ved=0CB8Q6AEwCg#v=onepage&q=&f=false
First Corinthians by Richard B. Hayes (John Knox Press, 1997) on line athttp://books.google.com/books?id=M_PC0PAs3VYC&dq=1+Corinthians+and+Richard+B.+Hays&printsec=frontcover&source=in&hl=en&ei=2oPcStDCIIvf8Aaq0Ki3BQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=11&ved=0CCMQ6AEwCg#v=onepage&q=1%20Corinthians%20and%20Richard%20B.%20Hays&f=false