Paul had not yet reached the end of what the family of Chloe had rep to him about what was going wrong in Corinth. The next problem he writes about is legal disputes amongst those who are supposed t brothers and sisters in Christ. Paul finds it shocking that Christians should bring cases against one another in the public courts of Corinth, instead of settling their difficulties under the guidance of the Holy Spirit within the community. Disputes can arise amongst Christians, but it should be possible for solutions to be found which a public condemnation of one Christian by another in front of those who are not Christians. In the gospels, we find guidance about how disputes should be handled in Matthew 18: 15-17 and Luke 12:57-59.

Paul speaks strongly in the whole of this passage but particular. 6:8-11a. It is clear from what he says that some of the Corinthians been very immoral, selfish, unpleasant people before they were converted, and there was a danger that they might revert to what they agreed to leave behind when they entered the Christian community. In the gospels, Luke 11:24-26 points grimly to the danger of back-sliding Paul tells them forcibly that the Kingdom of God cannot be entered by the wicked (6:9). He reminds the Corinthians again that they have dedicated to God, put right with God by the Lord Jesus Christ. 6 refers again to the return of Jesus Christ in glory. The idea that people are to judge the world comes from the Jewish background of early Church. It was part of the messianic hope of the Jews that the people of God, the righteous ones, would share God's sovereignty over the world, when God's rule was manifested in the universe, on the Day of the Lord (Daniel 7:27). This hope had been carried over into the belief of the early Church. When Jesus Christ returned in glory, the new people of God would share in both the glory and the judgment.