7 Indeed even this is altogether a fault among you, that ye have contests with each other. Why do ye not rather suffer wrong?
1 Corinthians 6:7 Cross References - Wesley
Matthew 5:39-41
Romans 12:17-19
17 Mind not high, but condescend to low things. Be not wise in your own conceit. Render to no man evil for evil. Provide things honest in the sight of all men.
18 If it be possible, as much as lieth in you, live peaceably with all men.
19 Dearly beloved, revenge not yourselves, but rather give place unto wrath: for it is written, Vengeance is mine; I will repay, saith the Lord.
Luke 6:29
29 And to him that smiteth thee on the cheek, offer also the other: and him that taketh away thy cloke, forbid not to take thy coat also.
1 Thessalonians 5:15
15 See that none render to any man evil for evil, but ever follow that which is good, both to one another and to all men.
James 4:1-3
1 From whence come wars and fightings among you? Is it not hence, from your pleasures that war in your members?
2 Ye desire and have not, ye kill, and envy, and cannot obtain: ye fight and war; yet ye have not, because ye ask not.
3 Ye ask and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may expend it on your pleasures.
1 Peter 2:19-23
19 For this is thank worthy, if a man for conscience toward God endure grief, suffering wrongfully.
20 For what glory is it, if when ye commit faults and are buffeted, ye take it patiently? But if when ye do well and suffer, ye take it patiently, this is acceptable with God.
21 For even hereunto are ye called; for Christ also suffered for you, leaving you an example, that ye might follow his steps:
22 Who did no sin, neither was guile found in his mouth:
23 Who when he was reviled, reviled not again, when he suffered he threatened not, but committed himself to him that judgeth righteously:
1 Peter 3:9
9 Not rendering evil for evil, or railing for railing, but contrariwise blessing; knowing that ye are called to this, to inherit a blessing.