Philip Schaff's Popular Commentary (4 vols)
1 Corinthians 6:17
1 Corinthians 6:17. But he that is joined unto the Lord is one spirit becomes by that union partaker of a life in common with the Lord, spiritual and imperishable.
1 Corinthians 6:17. But he that is joined unto the Lord is one spirit becomes by that union partaker of a life in common with the Lord, spiritual and imperishable.
Verse 17. _IS ONE SPIRIT._] He who is united to God, by faith in Christ Jesus, receives his Spirit, and becomes a partaker of the Divine nature. Who can change such a relationship for communion with a...
BUT HE THAT IS JOINED TO THE LORD - The true Christian, united by faith to the Lord Jesus; see John 15:1 ff. IS ONE SPIRIT - That is, in a sense similar to that in which a man and his wife are one bod...
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...
THE FOLLY OF THE LAW COURTS (1 Corinthians 6:1-8)...
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...
SPIRIT. App-101. Compare 1 Corinthians 6:15; 1 Corinthians 12:13....
_he that is joined unto the Lord is one spirit_ Literally, CLEAVETH TO THE LORD. No words, save perhaps those in St John 17, could more forcibly express the closeness of the union between Christ and H...
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...
Ὁ ΚΟΛΛΏΜΕΝΟΣ ΤΩ͂Ι ΚΥΡΊΩΙ. Literally, CLEAVETH TO THE LORD. No words, save perhaps those in John 17, could more forcibly express the closeness of the union between Christ and His faithful disciple. The...
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...
_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...
ΈΝ ΠΝΕΎΜΑ (G1520; G4151) один дух. Блуд с проституткой является физическим союзом, который противоречит требованиям Господа к телу и создает противоречие между телом и духом — который по-прежнему оста...
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...
But he that is joined unto the Lord is one spirit. ONE SPIRIT - with Him. In union with a harlot, the fornicator becomes one "body" with her, not one "spirit;" for the spirit-the normal organ of th...
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...
_(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...
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...
ONE SPIRIT] i.e. he shares in the life of the Lord: cp. John 15:4; John 15:5....
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...
ONE SPIRIT. — The union betwixt Christ and each member of His Church is a spiritual one. This explains the sense in which we are the Lord’s body, and intensifies the argument against any degradation o...
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....
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...
ὁ δὲ κολλώμενος τῳ Κυρίῳ κ. τ. λ.: “But he who cleaves to the Lord is one spirit (with Him)”. Adhesion by the act of faith (1 Corinthians 1:21, etc.) to Christ (as _Lord, cf._ 1 Corinthians 12:3, etc....
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...
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...
“Or know ye not that he which is joined to an harlot is one body [with her]; for the two, it is said, shall be one flesh. 17. And he that is joined unto the Lord is one spirit [with Him].” The ἤ, _or_...
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...
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...
17._He that is joined to the Lord. _He has added this to show that our connection with Christ is closer than that of a husband and wife, and that the former, accordingly, must be greatly preferred bef...
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...
HE THAT IS JOINED UNTO THE LORD,.... As every elect person is; his whole person, soul and body, is united to the Lord Jesus Christ, to his whole person, as God-man and Mediator; even as Adam and Eve,...
But he that is joined unto the Lord is one spirit. Ver. 17. _Is one spirit_] That is, one spiritual body: while Christ lays hold on us by his Spirit, we lay hold on him by faith. Hence the Church is...
_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_...
IS ONE SPIRIT; one spirit with Christ: Christ dwells in him and he in Christ. This mutual union makes him spiritual as Christ is spiritual....
An earnest warning against immorality:...
BUT HE THAT IS JOINED UNTO THE LORD IS ONE SPIRIT....
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...
BUT HE THAT IS JOINED UNTO THE LORD IS ONE SPIRIT. When "joined" the Lord in the act of faith expressed in baptism,. took upon myself the obligation to become "one spirit" with Him. Because that's tru...
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...
This phrase JOINED UNTO THE LORD, is thought to be taken out of DEUTERONOMY 10:20: _To him shalt thou cleave._ He that hath attained to that mystical union which is between Christ and every one that i...
But he that is joined unto the Lord is one spirit. [Having closest spiritual union with Christ-- Galatians 2:20; Galatians 3:27; Colossians 3:17]...
Origen de Principiis Book II one spirit, according to the promise of the apostle to those who ought to imitate it, that "he who is joined in the Lord is one spirit."[84] Origen Against Celsus Book I...
1 Corinthians 6:17 But G1161 joined G2853 (G5746) Lord G2962 is G2076 (G5748) one G1520 spirit G4151...
‘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...
ONE SPIRIT (εν πνευμα). With the Lord, the inner vital spiritual union with the Lord Jesus (Ephesians 4:4; Ephesians 5:30)....
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...
BUT HE. Paul uses the marriage relationship (the physical union) to symbolize the spiritual union to Christ. Compare Ephesians 5:25-33; 2 Corinthians 5:17; Galatians 3:27....
_He that is joined unto the Lord is one spirit._ --The apostle was wont to associate the commonest duties with the highest motives. In dissuading from the sin of impurity, he might have adduced consi...
_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...
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,...
1 CORINTHIANS—NOTE ON 1 CORINTHIANS 6:16 Sexual union has a spiritual component. That means sexual activity outside marriage is a sin against Christ (v. 1 Corinthians 6:15) and
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 12:13; Ephesians 4:3; Ephesians 4:4; Ephesians 5:30;...
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,...
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?...