With a price. Viz. with the price of the precious blood of Christ. (Estius) --- Him only should we serve, for whatever draws us from this allegiance, is perfect servitude, such as the love of any person or thing out of God.
Verse 23. _YE ARE BOUGHT WITH A PRICE_] As truly as your bodies have become the property of your masters, in consequence of his paying down a price for you; so sure you are now the Lord's property, in...
YE ARE BOUGHT WITH A PRICE - Though you are slaves to people, yet you have been purchased for God by the blood of His Son; see the note at 1 Corinthians 6:20. You are, therefore, in his sight of inest...
4. CONCERNING THE RELATIONSHIP OF MAN AND WOMAN CHAPTER 7 _ 1. The Single and the Married Life. (1 Corinthians 7:1)._ 2. Separation and Divorce. (1 Corinthians 7:10). 3. Abiding in the Different Ca...
He now passes on to special classes. First, those who are unmarried or have lost their partners. It would be best for them to follow Paul's example and remain as they are. But if they have not the gif...
The one thing that is necessary is that each man should walk as God has allotted to him and as God has called him. It is thus that I order things in all the Churches. Was any man called after he had b...
COMPLETE ASCETICISM (1 Corinthians 7:1-2)...
ARE. were. BOUGHT. See 1 Corinthians 6:20....
Christianity not intended to revolutionize the relations between the believer and society 17. _But as God hath distributed_ The permission to live apart from a heathen husband or wife is given only to...
_be not ye the servants of men_ Literally, SLAVES OF MEN. Let your minds and spirits be free, whatever may be your outward condition, i.e. be indifferent to mere external relations altogether, for tho...
CHRISTIANITY NOT INTENDED TO REVOLUTIONIZE THE RELATIONS BETWEEN THE BELIEVER AND SOCIETY...
ΤΙΜΗ͂Σ ἨΓΟΡΆΣΘΗΤΕ. See ch. 1 Corinthians 6:20. ΔΟΥ͂ΛΟΙ�. SLAVES OF MEN. Let your minds and spirits be free, whatever may be your outward condition, i.e. be indifferent to mere external relations altog...
_CONCERNING GOD'S CALL 1 CORINTHIANS 7:17-24:_ The Bible teaches that we should be content in whatever situation we are in. Paul said, "As the Lord hath called every one, so let him walk. And so ordai...
ΤΙΜΉΣ _gen. sing._ (G5092), _см._ 1 Corinthians 6:20. _Gen._ стоимости, ΉΓΟΡΆΣΘΗΤΕ _aor. ind. pass. от_ ΑΓΟΡΆΖΩ (G59) покупать на рынке, приобретать (_см._ 1 Corinthians 6:20; АРС,
YE ARE BOUGHT WITH A PRICE— _Slaves_ were bought and sold in the market, as cattle are, and the laws of the Roman Empire considered them as the property of the purchasers. This therefore is a reason f...
APPLEBURY'S COMMENTS _Directions for the Married_ (10-24) _Commentary_ Unto the married, I give charge.Paul, speaking as an apostle of Christ, gives direction to those who are already married. It is...
BUTLER'S COMMENTS SECTION 3 The Pressures of Marriage (1 Corinthians 7:17-40) 17 Only, let every one lead the life which the Lord has assigned to him, and in which God has called him. This is my rul...
Ye are bought with a price; be not ye the servants of men. BE (BECOME) NOT YE. Paul changes from "thou" () to "ye." YE ALL are "bought" with the costly blood of Christ to be free men () - 'become n...
8 It is evident that the preceding concession is only a general rule, not applicable to those not then married. Their relations are to be regulated by mutual consideration, but the unmarried need to c...
BOUGHT WITH A PRICE] cp. 1 Corinthians 6:20. SERVANTS] (RV 'bondservants') OF MEN] i.e. slavishly yielding to their desires; slaves to custom or public opinion: cp. 2 Corinthians 11:20....
_(A) ANSWER TO QUESTIONS ABOUT MARRIAGE_ The Corinthians had in their letter (1 Corinthians 7:1) asked St. Paul's opinion on several points connectedwithmarriage. His language in reply is guarded; he...
SERVANTS OF CHRIST 1 CORINTHIANS _HILDA BRIGHT_ CHAPTER 7 ADVICE ABOUT WHETHER TO MARRY 7:1-2 V1 But now I will deal with the matters that you wrote about. It is good for a man not to marry. V2...
YE ARE BOUGHT WITH A PRICE... — Better, _You were bought with a price therefore become not slaves of men._ This carries on the idea of freedmen of the previous verse. With a great price — even the blo...
CHAPTER 11 MARRIAGE THERE are two preliminary considerations which throw some light on this much-contested passage. First, Paul had to speak about marriage as he found it, as it existed among those t...
§ 22. GOD'S CALLING AND ONE'S EARTHLY STATION. In treating of questions relating to marriage, the Apostle's general advice admitting of large exceptions (1 Corinthians 7:2; 1 Corinthians 7:9; 1 Corint...
τιμῆς ἠγοράσθητε (see note on 1 Corinthians 6:20) explains the position both of the δοῦλος ἀπελεύθερος and the ἐλεύθ. δοῦλος by the same act of purchase: the slave has been liberated from sin, and the...
SERVE GOD IN YOUR CALLING 1 Corinthians 7:15 There was much unsettlement in regard to marriage in the church at Corinth. An unnatural asceticism was showing itself in some quarters and a lawless self...
Certain difficulties had arisen in the Corinthian Church concerning which they had sent inquiries to Paul. He now answers their questions. These answers contain principles of permanent application. Th...
The Christian's Social Relations Becoming a Christian should not be used as an excuse for disrupting normal social relations, assuming they are not sinful. Christianity is only disruptive to that whic...
(14) Ye are bought with a price; be not ye the servants of men. (14) He shows the reason of the unlikeness, because he that desired to be circumcised makes himself subject to man's tradition and not...
The second person plural which comes in here shows that the apostle is addressing the entire Church without distinction. If some from being slaves have become free, and the others from being free have...
“For he that was called in the Lord being a slave, is the Lord's freedman; likewise he that was called being free is Christ's slave. 23. Ye were bought with a price: become not the slaves of men!” Acc...
To illustrate the spirit of the prescriptions which he has just given, and to trace at the same time the line of conduct to be followed in certain analogous cases which occurred in the life of the Chu...
Notwithstanding the intrinsic excellence of celibacy, marriage should be the rule in practice. Such is the general meaning of this first passage....
(18) Is any man called being circumcised? let him not become uncircumcised. Is any called in uncircumcision? let him not be circumcised. (19) Circumcision is nothing, and uncircumcision is nothing, bu...
As usual, the introductory words (1 Corinthians 1:1-3) of the epistle give us no little intimation of that which is to follow. The apostle speaks of himself as such "called [to be] an apostle of Jesus...
23._Yea are bought with a price _We had these words in the preceding chapter, (1 Corinthians 6:20,) but for a different purpose. As to the word _price_, I have stated there, what is my view of it. The...
The apostle proceeds by answering a question in connection with the subject he had been treating the will of God with regard to the relationship between man and woman. They do well who remain outside...
YE ARE BOUGHT WITH A PRICE,.... Some read these words interrogatively, as 1 Corinthians 7:18, "are ye bought with a price?" and suppose them directed to such who had bought out their time of servitude...
Ye are bought with a price; be not ye the servants of men. Ver. 23. _Ye are bought with a price_] The redeemed among the Romans were to addict themselves to the service of their redeemers, and to obs...
_Let every man abide wherein he was called_ Affect not to change without the clear and evident leadings of Providence, as there is generally greater reason to expect a man will enjoy comfort, and be h...
YE; Christians of all countries and conditions, high and low, rich and poor, bond and free. ARE BOUGHT WITH A PRICE; redeemed from endless bondage to sin, Satan, and death by the precious blood of Ch...
A general application of these truths:...
YE ARE BOUGHT WITH A PRICE; BE NOT YE THE SERVANTS OF MEN....
Those things in Chapter s 5 and 6, which were of such serious importance as demanding correction, had evidently not even been questions in the minds of the Corinthians. But Paul was required to raise...
YE WERE BOUGHT WITH. PRICE; BECOME NOT BONDSERVANTS OF MEN. 'Ye were bought with. price' -the price of our freedom and our slavery. (1 Corinthians 6:20; 1 Peter 1:18) 'BECOME NOT BONDSERVANTS OF MEN...
17-24 The rules of Christianity reach every condition; and in every state a man may live so as to be a credit to it. It is the duty of every Christian to be content with his lot, and to conduct himse...
What PRICE we ARE BOUGHT WITH, we heard, 1 CORINTHIANS 6:20: the apostle there pressed it upon us as our duty to glorify God with our bodies and our spirits; here he presseth upon us another duty, viz...
Ye were bought with a price; become not bondservants of men....
1 Corinthians 7:23 bought G59 (G5681) price G5092 not G3361 become G1096 (G5737) slaves G1401 men G444...
‘You were bought with a price. Do not be the bondservants of men.' Taken literally this would contradict what he has said above. But he does not intend it to be taken literally. It continues the thoug...
CHRISTIANS NEED NOT FEEL COMPELLED TO LEAVE THE STATE IN WHICH THEY WERE WHEN THEY WERE CALLED (7:17-24). Paul now stresses that from a spiritual point of view Christians need not worry about their ea...
_The forgoing Principles applied to other Cases,_ 18-24. And first, _Circumcision._ 1 Corinthians 7:18. WAS ANY MAN CALLED BEING CIRCUMCISED? LET HIM NOT BECOME UNCIRCUMCISED which, under the persec...
YE WERE BOUGHT WITH A PRICE (τιμης ηγορασθητε). See on 1 Corinthians 6:20 for this very phrase, here repeated. Both classes (slaves and freemen) were purchased by the blood of Christ.BECOME NOT BON...
1 Corinthians 7:23 I. St. Paul's words, "Be not ye the slaves of men," have an important bearing upon the exercise of the understanding. "Bought with a price" by one who claims, not one part, but the...
CONTENTS: Sanctity of marriage. Regulation of marriage among Gentile believers. CHARACTERS: God, Christ, Holy Spirit, Paul. CONCLUSION: Marriage is by divine wisdom prescribed for the preventing of f...
It is evident from the tenor of this chapter that the Corinthians had written to the apostle for advice on the subject of marriage and its obligations, and that he is here resolving their various diff...
GOD BOUGHT YOU FOR A PRICE. Compare Acts 20:28; Galatians 2:20; 2 Corinthians 5:14-21. God buys us from our old owner, _sin,_ through the DEATH of his Son! SO DO NOT BECOME MEN'S SLAVES. "Do not let h...
_But as God hath distributed to every man, as the Lord hath called every one, so let him walk._ EVERY CHRISTIAN AT HIS POST 1. God appoints every man his station and condition in life. 2. Has calle...
CHAPTER 7 SYNOPSIS OF THE CHAPTER In this chapter he answers five questions of the Corinthians about the laws of matrimony, and about the counsel of virginity and celibacy i. The first question is...
_CRITICAL NOTES_ A. 1. Observe: With this chapter commences a NEW SECTION of the Epistle; the topics, and perhaps their order, suggested by a letter of formal inquiry brought from Corinth: vii. Marri...
EXPOSITION 1 CORINTHIANS 7:1 _Answers to the inquiries of the Corinthians respecting marriage._ 1 CORINTHIANS 7:1 _The_ _lawfulness of marriage, and its duties._...
Shall we turn now in our Bibles to the seventh chapter of I Corinthians. The Corinthian church was a mess. There were just a lot of problems, a problem with carnality. There were divisions in the chur...
1 Corinthians 6:20; 1 Peter 1:18; 1 Peter 1:19; 1 Peter 3:18; Acts
The servants of men. Not referring to the outward condition of bondage, but to spiritual subjection to the will and guidance of men as contrasted with Christ....
Ye are bought with a price — Ye belong to God; therefore, where it can be avoided, do not become the bondslaves of men — Which may expose you to many temptations....