1 Corinthians 6:1
The unjust — The heathens. A Christian could expect no justice from these. The saints — Who might easily decide these smaller differences in a private and friendly manner.... [ Continue Reading ]
The unjust — The heathens. A Christian could expect no justice from these. The saints — Who might easily decide these smaller differences in a private and friendly manner.... [ Continue Reading ]
Know ye not — This expression occurs six times in this single chapter, and that with a peculiar force; for the Corinthians knew and gloried in it, but they did not practise. That the saints — After having been judged themselves. Shall judge the world — Shall be assessors with Christ in the judgment... [ Continue Reading ]
Them who are of no esteem in the church — That is, heathens, who, as such, could be in no esteem with the Christians.... [ Continue Reading ]
Is there not one among you, who are such admirers of wisdom, that is wise enough to decide such causes?... [ Continue Reading ]
Indeed there is a fault, that ye quarrel with each other at all, whether ye go to law or no. Why do ye not rather suffer wrong — All men cannot or will not receive this saying. Many aim only at this, "I will neither do wrong, nor suffer it." These are honest heathens, but no Christians.... [ Continue Reading ]
Nay, ye do wrong — Openly. And defraud — Privately. O how powerfully did the mystery of iniquity already work!... [ Continue Reading ]
Idolatry is here placed between fornication and adultery, because they generally accompanied it. Nor the effeminate — Who live in an easy, indolent way; taking up no cross, enduring no hardship. But how is this? These good — natured, harmless people are ranked with idolaters and sodomites! We may le... [ Continue Reading ]
And such were some of you: but ye are washed — From those gross abominations; nay, and ye are inwardly sanctified; not before, but in consequence of, your being justified in the name — That is, by the merits, of the Lord Jesus, through which your sins are forgiven. And by the Spirit of our God — By... [ Continue Reading ]
All things — Which are lawful for you. Are lawful for me, but all things are not always expedient — Particularly when anything would offend my weak brother; or when it would enslave my own soul. For though all things are lawful for me, yet I will not be brought under the power of any — So as to be u... [ Continue Reading ]
As if he had said, I speak this chiefly with regard to meats; (and would to God all Christians would consider it!) particularly with regard to those offered to idols, and those forbidden in the Mosaic law. These, I grant, are all indifferent, and have their use, though it is only for a time: then me... [ Continue Reading ]
Genesis 2:24.... [ Continue Reading ]
But he that is joined to the Lord — By faith. Is one spirit with him — And shall he make himself one flesh with an harlot?... [ Continue Reading ]
Flee fornication — All unlawful commerce with women, with speed, with abhorrence, with all your might. Every sin that a man commits against his neighbour terminates upon an object out of himself, and does not so immediately pollute his body, though it does his soul. But he that committeth fornicatio... [ Continue Reading ]
And even your body is not, strictly speaking, your own even this is the temple of the Holy Ghost — Dedicated to him, and inhabited by him. What the apostle calls elsewhere "the temple of God," 1 Corinthians 3:16, and "the temple of the living God," 2 Corinthians 6:16, he here styles the temple of th... [ Continue Reading ]
Glorify God with your body, and your spirit — Yield your bodies and all their members, as well as your souls and all their faculties, as instruments of righteousness to God. Devote and employ all ye have, and all ye are, entirely, unreservedly, and for ever, to his glory.... [ Continue Reading ]