Dare any of you, having a matter against another, go to law before the unjust, and not before the saints? DARE - implying treason against Christian brotherhood. BEFORE THE UNJUST. Gentile judges are so termed by an epithet appropriate to the subject, which concerns justice. Though all Gentiles... [ Continue Reading ]
Do ye not know that the saints shall judge the world? and if the world shall be judged by you, are ye unworthy to judge the smallest matters? DO YE NOT KNOW - a truth universally recognized by Christians Notwithstanding all your glorying in your DO YE NOT KNOW - a truth universally recognized by... [ Continue Reading ]
Know ye not that we shall judge angels? how much more things that pertain to this life? JUDGE ANGELS. We who are now "a spectacle to angels" shall then, by Christ in us, "judge (bad) angels." What Christ is and does, the Church is and does (; , end). The saints shall join in pronouncing the sent... [ Continue Reading ]
If then ye have judgments of things pertaining to this life, set them to judge who are least esteemed in the church. JUDGMENTS - i:e., cases for judgment. LEAST ESTEEMED - literally, those of no esteem. Any, however low in the church, rather than the pagan. Earthly questions, being secondary in... [ Continue Reading ]
I speak to your shame. Is it so, that there is not a wise man among you? no, not one that shall be able to judge between his brethren? YOUR SHAME. He checks their puffed-up spirit (). To shame you out of your present unworthy course, I have said (), 'Set the least esteemed to judge.' IS IT SO?... [ Continue Reading ]
But brother goeth to law with brother, and that before the unbelievers. BUT - emphatically answering . Translate, 'Nay,' etc.... [ Continue Reading ]
Now therefore there is utterly a fault among you, because ye go to law one with another. Why do ye not rather take wrong? why do ye not rather suffer yourselves to be defrauded? UTTERLY A FAULT, [ heetteema (G2275)] - literally, a shortcoming (not so strong as sin). Your going to law at all is a fa... [ Continue Reading ]
Nay, ye do wrong, and defraud, and that your brethren. YE - emphatic. Ye, whom your Lord commanded to return good for evil, on the contrary, "do wrong (by taking) and defraud" (by retaining what is intrusted to you). Contrast the Church's first love ().... [ Continue Reading ]
Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind, UNRIGHTEOUS. Translate, 'doers of wrong:' referring to (). KINGDOM OF GOD - which is a kingdom of... [ Continue Reading ]
_NOR THIEVES, NOR COVETOUS, NOR DRUNKARDS, NOR REVILERS, NOR EXTORTIONERS, SHALL INHERIT THE KINGDOM OF GOD._ No JFB commentary on this verse.... [ Continue Reading ]
And such were some of you: but ye are washed, but ye are sanctified, but ye are justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and by the Spirit of our God. YE ARE WASHED - the Greek middle voice, 'ye have had yourselves washed.' This implies admission to the benefits of salvation generally; of which... [ Continue Reading ]
All things are lawful unto me, but all things are not expedient: all things are lawful for me, but I will not be brought under the power of any. ALL THINGS ARE LAWFUL UNTO ME. Paul's own words on some former occasion (cf. 1 Corinthians 10:23) were made a pretext for excusing the eating of meats o... [ Continue Reading ]
Meats for the belly, and the belly for meats: but God shall destroy both it and them. Now the body is not for fornication, but for the Lord; and the Lord for the body. The argument from the indifference of meats (; ; : cf. ; Colossians 2:20) to that of fornication does not hold good. Meats doubtl... [ Continue Reading ]
And God hath both raised up the Lord, and will also raise up us by his own power. (Romans 8:11). RAISED UP - rather, "raised" (a simple verb), to distinguish it from "will also raise up us" [ exegerei (G1825), 'Aleph (') C, Vulgate. But A f, exegeirei, raiseth up], a compound. Believers shall be... [ Continue Reading ]
Know ye not that your bodies are the members of Christ? shall I then take the members of Christ, and make them the members of an harlot? God forbid. Resuming 1 Corinthians 6:13, "the body is ... for the Lord" (1 Corinthians 12:27; Ephesians 4:12; Ephesians 4:15; Ephesians 5:30). SHALL I THEN TAK... [ Continue Reading ]
What? know ye not that he which is joined to an harlot is one body? for two, saith he, shall be one flesh. Fornicators are "members of an harlot" (1 Corinthians 6:15). JOINED - by carnal, sexual intercourse; literally, cemented to [ kolloomenos (G2853)] (Numbers 25:3). ONE BODY - with her.... [ Continue Reading ]
But he that is joined unto the Lord is one spirit. ONE SPIRIT - with Him. In union with a harlot, the fornicator becomes one "body" with her, not one "spirit;" for the spirit-the normal organ of the Holy Spirit in man-is in the carnal so overlaid with what is sensual that it is in abeyance. The... [ Continue Reading ]
Flee fornication. Every sin that a man doeth is without the body; but he that committeth fornication sinneth against his own body. FLEE. Our safety in such temptations is flight (; ). EVERY SIN THAT - Greek, 'Whatsoever a man doeth.' Every other sin-even gluttony, drunkenness, and self-murder-a... [ Continue Reading ]
What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own? YOUR BODY - not 'bodies.' Proof of 1 Corinthians 6:18. As in 1 Corinthians 3:17 he represented the whole company of believers, the Church, as "the temple of God" the Sp... [ Continue Reading ]
For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God's. BOUGHT WITH A [GREAT] PRICE - therefore Christ's blood is strictly a ransom paid to God's justice, by the love of God in Christ, for our redemption (; ; ; ; 1 Peter 1:18; ; ). While He thus to... [ Continue Reading ]