6:3
As well as judging men, we will also be judging angels. Now what does Paul mean by this? Before dealing with the detailed point of what it means to judge angels we should focus on the simpler, and more important point. We need to realise what a great purpose and future God has for us, then we will far less prone to getting involved and upset about petty things. On the angels point, Heb 2:7 says we were made a little lower than the angels, quoting from Psalm 8, a psalm which speaks of God putting everything under our feet.
6:4
The consequence of all this is in the immediate context is that the Corinthian church has no grounds for calling on the world to judge their internal disputes. It is yet another example of the Corinthians, who were so proud of themselves, really being utterly worldly. The NIV speaks of those whose “way of life is scorned by the church”, the ESV has “those who have no standing”. The NIV here seems to be closer to the Greek.
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