Commentaries:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
utterly a fault--literally, "a shortcoming" (not so strong as sin). Your going to law at all is a falling short of your high privileges, not to say your doing so before unbelievers, which aggravates it.
rather take wrong-- (Proverbs 20:22; Matthew 5:39-40); that is, "suffer yourselves to be wronged."
Other commentary entries containing this verse:
Matthew 5:5
1 Corinthians 6:1
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