ναὸς τοῦ ἐν ὑμῖν ἁγίου πνεύματός ἐστιν. See note on ch. 1 Corinthians 3:16. Observe also that God in Christ acts through the Spirit (cf. 1 Corinthians 6:11; 1 Corinthians 6:15 of this chapter), so that ‘we are the temple of God’ because ‘the Spirit of God dwelleth in us.’ Nothing can be more effectual than the thought of such an inhabitation, as being the result of our Christian calling, to restrain us from the sin here mentioned.

οὗ ἔχετε�. Whom ye have from God, referring to the Holy Spirit. Cf. John 3:5; John 14:26; John 15:26; Acts 2:33. The A.V. and R.V. ‘which’ is very misleading here.

οὐκ ἐστὲ ἑαυτῶν. Cf. ch. 1 Corinthians 7:22; Romans 6:18; Romans 6:22; John 8:36; also Romans 14:8. The Scriptures frequently remind us that we have passed from slavery to sin into slavery to Christ, the latter slavery, however, being the true freedom of man, enabling him to fulfil the law of his being.

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