for ye were bought with a price [sold to sin (1 Kings 21:20; Romans 7:14), we have been redeemed by the blood of Christ-- Acts 20:28; Romans 6:16-22; Hebrews 9:12; 1 Peter 1:18-19; Revelation 5:9]: glorify God therefore in your body. [Since our bodies belong to God, they should be used to glorify him. The whole passage confutes the slander of those materialists who contend that Christianity depreciates the body.]
1 CORINTHIANS 6:20 dh, Among several variant readings involving dh, is (_a_) the interesting expansion, preserved in Latin witnesses (itg vg Marcion (Tertullian) Cyprian Lucifer Ambrosiaster Speculum...
Verse 1 Corinthians 6:20. _YE ARE BOUGHT WITH A PRICE_] As the _slave_ who is purchased by his master for a sum of money is the sole property of that master, so ye, being bought with the price of the...
FOR YE ARE BOUGHT - Ye Christians are purchaseD; and by right of purchase should therefore be employed as he directs. This doctrine is often taught in the New Testament, and the argument is often urge...
CHAPTER 6 __ 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...
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...
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...
THE FOLLY OF THE LAW COURTS (1 Corinthians 6:1-8)...
ARE. were. BOUGHT. Greek. _agorazo._ Occurs thirty-one times, always translated "buy", save Revelation 5:9; Revelation 14:3; Revelation 14:4. GLORIFY. Greek. _doxazo._ See p. 1511....
The guilt of the Fornicator 12. _All things are lawful unto me_ 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 followe...
_ye are_(lit. WERE) _bought with a price_ the "one sufficient Sacrifice, Oblation and Satisfaction made for the sins of the whole world" by the Death and Passion of our Saviour Christ. Cf. Acts 20:28;...
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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DISCOURSE: 1959 THE DUTY OF DEVOTING OURSELVES TO GOD 1 Corinthians 6:19. _What? know ye not that ……ye are not your own? for ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in you...
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...
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 ju...
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...
BOUGHT WITH A PRICE] Christ has given Himself for you, and you are His; yea, God has given Christ for you, and you belong to God through Him. GLORIFY GOD IN YOUR BODY] RV omits the rest. St. Paul is...
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...
_(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...
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...
WHAT? KNOW YE NOT...? — These verses read better rendered thus: _Do you not know that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you? Which you have from God, and you are not your own. For...
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....
§ 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....
What a _deadly_ sin, an act of high treason, this is for the Christian, Paul's final appeal shows: “Or (if you do not yet realise the heinousness of fornication), do you not know that your _body_ is t...
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,
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...
The Temple of the Holy Spirit Paul said every Christian's body is the dwelling place of the Holy Spirit (1 Corinthians 6:19-20). These verses point to an indwelling. On page 366 of The Timeless Trini...
“Or know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit which is in you, and which ye have of God? And ye are not your own; 20. for ye are bought with a price; therefore glorify God in your bo...
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...
(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...
REFLECTIONS READER! let you and I learn, from this interesting Chapter, how utterly unsuitable, and unbecoming it is, in a child of God, called out of the Adam-fall of nature, and redeemed from the l...
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...
_DIVINE OWNERSHIP_ ‘Ye are not your own.’ 1 Corinthians 6:19 As Christians we are no longer our own. Jesus has acquired by His blood all rights of ownership over us. This is the great truth I desir...
_ON GLORIFYING GOD_ ‘Ye are bought with a price; therefore glorify God.’ 1 Corinthians 6:20 Notice some of the ways in which the Christian is called upon to promote the glory of His God. I. THE PR...
_RELIGIOUS USE OF THE BODY_ ‘Glorify God in your body.’ 1 Corinthians 6:20 ‘From the crown of the head to the sole of the foot’ there is not a part of our frame which may not be the embodiment of s...
20._Glorify God _From this conclusion, it appears that the Corinthians took a liberty to themselves in outward things, that it was necessary to restrain and bridle. The reproof therefore is this he al...
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...
FOR YE ARE BOUGHT WITH A PRICE,.... Not with gold and silver, but with the precious blood of Christ, as the whole church, and all the elect of God are. This proves them to be the Lord's, not only his...
For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God's. Ver. 20. _Ye are bought_] Shall I drink the blood of these men? saith David. So, shall I abuse...
_Know ye not_, &c. As if he had said, There is another view in which the baseness of this crime must appear to you, Christians, in consequence of your relation to that blessed agent, the Spirit of God...
BOUGHT WITH A PRICE; the blood of Christ. Good men feel that they are in the highest sense the property of God; and that the first principles of honesty require them in all things to glorify him....
FOR YE ARE BOUGHT WITH A PRICE; THEREFORE GLORIFY GOD IN YOUR BODY AND IN YOUR SPIRIT, WHICH ARE GOD'S. The apostle speaks in holy zeal, with righteous indignation, without reservation, bringing the t...
An earnest warning against immorality:...
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...
FOR YE WERE BOUGHT WITH. PRICE: GLORIFY GOD THEREFORE IN YOUR BODY. 'for' -proof and justification for the statement, 'ye are not your own.' 'BOUGHT WITH. PRICE' -the price being, the blood of Chris...
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...
FOR YE ARE BOUGHT WITH A PRICE; what price this is that is here mentioned Peter tells us, both negatively and positively, 1 PETER 1:18,19: Forasmuh as ye know that ye were not redeemed with corruptibl...
Irenaeus Against Heresies Book V In order, therefore, that we may be perfected for this, aptly does he say to the Corinthians, "Glorify God in your body."[105] Tertullian Against Marcion Book V Wha...
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‘Or do you not know that your body is a sanctuary of the Holy Spirit which is in you, which you have from God, and you are not your own, for you were bought with a price. Therefore glorify God in your...
1 Corinthians 6:20. FOR YE WERE BOUGHT WITH A PRICE [1] “with precious blood, even Christ's,” says Peter (1 Peter 1:19). Is it so? then, as the purchased property of another, ye are at no liberty to d...
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....
FOR YE WERE BOUGHT WITH A PRICE (ηγορασθητε γαρ τιμης). First aorist passive indicative of αγοραζω, old verb to buy in the marketplace (αγορα). With genitive of price. Paul does not here state the p...
AND IN YOUR Some authorities end verse with "body....
1 Corinthians 6:19 Note: I. God's consecration of the body. The image of the text is that of a shrine in which a god dwells. The body of a Christian believer holds another tenant than his human spiri...
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...
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...
HE BOUGHT YOU. John 3:16. The Cross stands as God's estimate of YOUR value!!! SO USE YOUR BODIES FOR GOD'S GLORY. By holy living and good actions. Compare Matthew 25:31-40....
_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...
_What?_ Know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost? THE DIGNITY AND SERVICE OF THE BODY I. The dignity of the body. The apostle speaks in the accents of surprise, as if to imply tha...
1 CORINTHIANS—NOTE ON 1 CORINTHIANS 6:20 BOUGHT WITH A PRICE. The image is borrowed from the slave market (1 Corinthians 7:23; see also...
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,...
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...
_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
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
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...
1 Corinthians 10:31; 1 Corinthians 7:23; 1 Peter 1:18; 1 Peter 2:9;...
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,...
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 h...