<p>6:7 <i>No, already there is totally a defect in </i><i>you, that you have lawsuits with one another</i><i>- </i>There was a 'lack', a deficit- of the Spirit. For despite having been given the Spirit, they were not spiritual (1 Cor. 3:1).</p><p><i>Why not rather take wrong? Why not rather be defrauded?</i>- 2 Cor. 7:12 speaks of &quot;he that suffered wrong&quot;, presumably the father of the immoral brother, whose wife had been taken from him. But it would appear that the father had launched legal action against his son for going off with his wife. &quot;Defrauded&quot; is used in a sexual sense (1 Cor. 7:5; 1 Thess. 4:6). The man is here being encouraged not to seek legal redress over the matter; and we note that Paul accuses them all of defrauding their brethren, as if they too were guilty of gross sexual misbehaviour. In the same way, he argued in chapter 5 that they had the same leaven within them which was as it were within the immoral brother.</p><p>Paul taught his hopeless Corinthians that they ought not to be taking each other to court in the world, but rather should get brethren to settle disputes between brethren. But then he offers the higher level: don&rsquo;t even do this,&nbsp; but &ldquo;rather take wrong... rather suffer yourselves to be defrauded&rdquo;. This kind of concession to a lower level is something we will find throughout chapter 7.</p>