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Verse 1 Corinthians 6:15. _KNOW YE NOT THAT YOUR BODIES ARE THE
MEMBERS OF_ _CHRIST?_] Because he has taken your nature upon him, and
thus, as believers in him, ye are the members of Christ.
_SHALL...
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KNOW YE NOT ... - This is the third argument against licentiousness.
It is, that we as Christians are united to Christ (compare the notes
at John 15:1 ff); and that it is abominable to take the member...
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CHAPTER 6
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1. Concerning Disputes before Heathen Courts. (1 Corinthians 6:1).
2. The Holiness of Believers; Their Bodies the Temples of the Holy
Spirit. (1 Corinthians 6:8).
Instead of settling t...
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IMPURITY IS NO TRUE EXPRESSION OF CHRISTIAN FREEDOM, BUT INCOMPATIBLE
WITH THE BELIEVER'S UNION WITH CHRIST. The special case of incest and
the warnings against impurity in the last section (1 Corinth...
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THE FOLLY OF THE LAW COURTS (1 Corinthians 6:1-8)...
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True, all things are allowed to me; but all things are not good for
me. All things are allowed to me, but I will not allow any thing to
get control of me. Foods were made for the stomach and the stoma...
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CHRIST. App-98.
GOD FORBID. Greek. _me genoito._ The eleventh occurance of this
expression in Paul's epistles. See Romans 3:4....
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ΟΥ̓Κ ΟἼΔΑΤΕ. A fresh argument. Not only will our bodies be
raised up hereafter, but they are the members of Christ now. This
solemn truth, that by our calling as Christians we are so closely
united to...
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THE GUILT OF THE FORNICATOR
In this and the next two verses the main argument of the rest of the
Epistle is sketched out, though not in the order afterwards followed
by the Apostle. At present he take...
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_CHRISTIANS ARE THE BODY OF CHRIST 1 CORINTHIANS 6:15-20:_ God has
purchased Christians with the precious blood of Jesus Christ. (1 Peter
1:18-19) We have been bought with blood, therefore we belong t...
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BUTLER'S COMMENTS
SECTION 3
Defilers Are Not Brothers (1 Corinthians 6:12-20)
12 All things are lawful for me, but not all things are helpful. All
things are lawful for me, but I will not be enslave...
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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 ... fo...
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1 It is unfortunate that our word "judge" usually takes on the sense
of condemnation. The saints are not to condemn the world but to rule
it during the eons. Saints in Israel will possess the kingdom...
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PARAPHRASE. 'It is true as you suggest that “all things are
lawful” but this is not an absolute but a relative principle. You
must not argue that the existence of appetites proves the lawfulness
of th...
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_(C) 6:1-11. CHRISTIANS AND LITIGATION_
St. Paul reproves the Corinthians for referring their disputes about
ordinary affairs to heathen judges. The subject was suggested by
rumours he had heard; and...
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SERVANTS OF CHRIST
1 CORINTHIANS
_HILDA BRIGHT_
CHAPTER 6
CHRISTIANS AND THE LAW COURTS 6:1-8
V1 Suppose that one of you has a reason to complain against another
Christian. You may take your pro...
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SHALL I THEN ...? — Having shown the great dignity which attaches to
our bodies as immortal members of Christ, the Apostle asks with
indignant emphasis, “Shall I take them out from that high and holy...
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CHAPTER 10
FORNICATION
IN remonstrating with the Corinthians for their litigiousness, Paul
was forcibly reminded how imperfectly his converts understood the
moral requirements of the kingdom of God....
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§ 19. THE SANCTITY OF THE BODY, The laxity of morals distinguishing
the Cor [964] Church was in some instances defended, or half-excused,
by appealing to the principle of _Christian liberty_, which P....
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1 Corinthians 6:15-17 unfold in its repulsiveness, by vivid concrete
presentment, the opposition between the two claimants for bodily
service already contrasted: the rival of Christ is ἡ πόρνη!
“Or (i...
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KEEPING THE BODY HOLY
1 Corinthians 6:12
It is interesting to compare 1 Corinthians 6:12 with 1 Corinthians
10:23. There are four clauses in each verse, three of which are
similar,
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The apostle now passed to another dereliction. Disputes in the church
were being submitted to heathen tribunals. What these matters were we
are not told. The teaching of the apostle is clear, and has...
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Christians Are A Part of Christ's Body
Christians are free to do anything that is not sinful. The Corinthians
had misapplied their freedom to sinful activities. As God's inspired
spokesman, Paul said...
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(11) 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.
(11) A declaration of the former argument b...
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“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? Let it not be so!”
Paul had just said that the body is not for...
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IV. IMPURITY. 6:12-20.
It has sometimes been imagined that the apostle was here resuming the
subject of chap. 5, from which he had allowed himself to be diverted
by the question of lawsuits. But we ha...
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(15) 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 a
harlot? God forbid. (16) What? know ye not that he which is joined...
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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...
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15._Know ye not that our bodies are the members_, etc. Here we have an
explanation, or, if you prefer it, an amplification of the foregoing
statement. For that expression, _the body is for the Lord_,...
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1 Corinthians 6:1-11 treats the subject of wrongs. It was shameful
that those who were to judge the world and the angels should be
incapable of judging the paltry affairs of this world. Let the least...
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KNOW YE NOT THAT YOUR BODIES ARE THE MEMBERS, OF CHRIST,.... The whole
persons of God's elect were chosen in Christ, and given to him, and
made one with him, their bodies as well as their souls; and b...
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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.
Ver. 15. _Shall I then take_] Scipio, when a har...
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_Know ye not that your bodies are the members of Christ_ Mystically
united to him, as well as your souls, if you are his true disciples,
as you profess to be. _Shall I then take the members of Christ_...
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YOUR BODIES ARE THE MEMBERS OF CHRIST; he has redeemed the bodies as
well as the souls of believers. As such they are spiritually united to
him now, and shall be throughout eternity....
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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!...
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An earnest warning against immorality:...
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In this chapter there is another matter raised in which the
Corinthians had not been using proper judgment. No individual is
singled out here, but the strong reproof of the apostle is for any who
had...
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KNOW YE NOT THAT YOUR BODIES ARE MEMBERS OF CHRIST? SHALL. THEN TAKE
AWAY THE MEMBERS OF CHRIST, AND MAKE THEM MEMBERS OF. HARLOT? GOD
FORBID.
'Know ye not' -'Again it is implied that they had learn...
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12-20 Some among the Corinthians seem to have been ready to say, All
things are lawful for me. This dangerous conceit St. Paul opposes.
There is a liberty wherewith Christ has made us free, in which...
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Christ is united to the person of the believer, and he is the Head of
the church, which is his mystical body; so that the bodies of
believers are in a sense the members of Christ, and should be used b...
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Know ye not that your bodies are members of Christ? [parts of his body
(1 Corinthians 12:27; Ephesians 5:30); branches of the Vine-- John
15:5] shall I then take away the members of Christ, and make t...
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Clement of Alexandria The Instructor Book II "Nor," as Paul says, "is
it meet to make the members of Christ the members of an harlot; nor
must the temple of God be made the temple of base affections....
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‘Do you not know that your bodies are members of Christ. Shall I
then take away the members of Christ and make them members of a
prostitute? May it not be. Or do you not know that he who is joined in...
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From wrong-doing in one particular the apostle is now led to speak of
wrong-doing in its widest sense, but emphatically of that form of it
already dealt with in part....
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1 Corinthians 6:15. KNOW YE NOT THAT YOUR BODIES ARE MEMBERS OF
CHRIST? He expects this to be recognised as a first principle (see
Ephesians 5:30).
SHALL I THEN TAKE AWAY [1] THE MEMBERS OF CHRIST?...
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MEMBERS OF CHRIST
(μελη Χριστου). Old word for limbs, members. Even the
Stoics held the body to be common with the animals (Epictetus, _Diss_.
l. iii. 1) and only the reason like the gods. Without d...
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SHALL I
Paul does not invoke the authority of the seventh commandment, but
appeals to the believer's sacredness as a member of Christ....
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CONTENTS: Saints forbidden to go to law with each other. Sanctity of
the body. The body the Lord's temple.
CHARACTERS: God, Christ, Holy Spirit.
CONCLUSION: Contention of Christians before the law i...
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1 Corinthians 6:1. _Dare any of you go to law before the unjust?_ He
whose cause is just appeals to equity, but he who does his neighbour
wrong is vexatious. In England, our judges, after the cause is...
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YOU KNOW. Current religious thought says man is only valuable because
he has a _soul._ Paul says the Christian's body is part of the body of
Christ. See 1 Corinthians 6:19. THE BODY OF A PROSTITUTE? T...
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_All things are lawful to me, but all things are not expedient._
THE LAWFUL AND THE EXPEDIENT
I. What is lawful for us in life? All things indifferent, _i.e._, not
evil in themselves. The Christian h...
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_Meats for the belly, and the belly for meats._
CHRISTIANITY IN RELATION TO THE BODY
The apostle here states, perhaps in answer to a question on the
subject, that there is a limitation to Christian...
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1 CORINTHIANS—NOTE ON 1 CORINTHIANS 6:15 BODIES... MEMBERS OF
CHRIST. Already in 1 Corinthians 1:13 Paul has suggested that the
church is Christ’s bod
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1 CORINTHIANS—NOTE ON 1 CORINTHIANS 6:12 Some Corinthian Christians
were engaging in sex with prostitutes. Paul reminds them that the
bodies of Christians are one with the resurrected Christ and that,...
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CHAPTER 6
SYNOPSIS OF THE CHAPTER
i. The Apostle passes on to the subject of lawsuits and trials, and
reproves the Corinthians for instituting proceedings before the
heathen judges, and he declares...
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_Know ye not that your bodies are the members of Christ?_ For ye
yourselves, and consequently your body and soul, are members of the
Church of Christ. S. Augustine (_Serm._ 18. _in hæc Verb._) says
be...
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_CRITICAL NOTES_
SECOND MAIN TOPIC.— 1 Corinthians 6:12
1 Corinthians 6:12. LAWFUL.—Here, and in 1 Corinthians 10:23. To be
put in quotation marks, “All … lawful.” His own word
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EXPOSITION
1 CORINTHIANS 6:1
_Litigation before heathen courts forbidden._
1 CORINTHIANS 6:1
DARE ANY OF YOU? rather, _Dare any one of you? _It is in St. Paul's
view an _audacious _defiance of
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Now Paul brings up another issue, and that was the taking of a brother
before the pagan courts.
Dare any of you, having a matter against another, go to law before the
unjust, and not before the saint...
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1 Corinthians 11:3; 1 Corinthians 12:27; 1 Corinthians 6:19;
Colossians 2:19;...
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Members of Christ. The body is not only for the Lord (ver. 13),
adapted for Him : it is also united with Him. See Ephesians 4:16.
Members of a harlot. The union of man and woman, whether lawful or
un...
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THE INDWELLING HOLY SPIRIT
1 Corinthians 6:1
INTRODUCTORY WORDS
The studies in the Epistle to the Corinthians are not written to be
shelved, but to be carefully studied, and followed, lest we fall,...
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A third argument here follows: "Our bodies are the members of Christ,
as well as our souls; that is, the union is made between Christ and
us, consisting of soul and body both.
Now, shall we dispose o...