1 Corinthians 6:11

And such were some of you: but ye are washed, but ye are sanctified, but ye are justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and by the Spirit of our God. YE ARE WASHED - the Greek middle voice, 'ye have had yourselves washed.' This implies admission to the benefits of salvation generally; of which the parts are (1) Sanctification, the setting apart from the world, and numbering among the "saints" (: so ; ). In it means the setting apart of one as consecrated by the Spirit in the eternal purpose of God. (2) Justification from condemnation, through the righteousness of God in Christ by faith ...

11._And such were ye. _Some add a term of speciality: _Such were some of you_, as in Greek the word τινὲς is added; but I am rather of opinion that the Apostle speaks in a general way. I consider that term to be redundant, in accordance with the practice of the Greeks, who frequently make use of it for the sake of ornament, not by way of restriction. We must not, however, understand him as putting all in one bundle, so as to attribute all these vices to each of them, but he simply means to intimate, that no one is altogether free from these vices, until he has been renewed by the Spirit. For we must hold this, that man’s nature universally contains the seed of all evils, but that some vices prevail and discover themselves more in some than in others, according as the Lord brings out to view the depravity of the flesh by its fruits. Thus Paul, in the first chapter of his Epistle to the Ro...

9-11 The Corinthians are warned against many great evils, of which they had formerly been guilty. There is much force in these inquiries, when we consider that they were addressed to a people puffed up with a fancy of their being above others in wisdom and knowledge. All unrighteousness is sin; all reigning sin, nay, every actual sin, committed with design, and not repented of, shuts out of the kingdom of heaven. Be not deceived. Men are very much inclined to flatter themselves that they may live in sin, yet die in Christ, and go to heaven. But we cannot hope to sow to the flesh, and reap everlasting life. They are reminded what a change the gospel and grace of God had made in them. The blood of Christ, and the washing of regeneration, can take away all guilt. Our justification is owing to the suffering and merit of Christ; our sanctification to the working of the Holy Spirit; but both...

Verse 1 Corinthians 6:11. _AND SUCH WERE SOME OF YOU_] It was not with the prospect of collecting _saints_ that the apostles went about preaching the Gospel of the kingdom. None but _sinners_ were to be found over the face of the earth; they preached that sinners might be converted unto God, made saints, and constituted into a Church; and this was the _effect_ as well as the _object_ of their preaching. _BUT YE ARE WASHED_] Several suppose that the _order_ in which the operations of the grace of God take place in the soul is here inverted; but I am of a very different mind. Every thing will appear here in its order, when we understand the _terms_ used by the apostle. _Ye are washed_, απελουσασθε; ye have been _baptized_ into the Christian faith, and ye have promised in this baptism to p

AND SUCH - Such drunkards, lascivious, and covetous persons. This shows: (1) The exceeding grace of God that could recover even such persons from sins so debasing and degrading. (2) It shows that we are not to despair of reclaiming the most abandoned and wretched people. (3) It is well for Christians to look back on what they once were. It will produce: (a)Humility, (b)Gratitude, (c)A deep sense of the sovereign mercy of God, (d)An earnest desire that others may be recovered and saved in like manner; compare

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 Christian duties to seek from the heathen the justice due from brother to brother. A MATTER; some ground of civil dispute. AGAINST ANOTHER; _i.e. _against another Christian. When one of the litigants was a heathen, Christians were allowed to go before heathen law courts, because no other remedy was possible. GO TO LAW BEFORE THE UNJUST. The "unjust" is here used for "Gentiles," because it at once suggests a reason against the dereliction

AND SUCH WERE SOME OF YOU,.... Not all, but some of them; and of these everyone was not guilty of all these crimes; but some had been guilty of one, and others of another; so that they had been all committed by one or another of them. The Corinthians were a people very much given to uncleanness and luxury, without measure i, which was the ruin of their state: and among these wicked people God had some chosen vessels of salvation; who are put in mind of their former state, partly for their present humiliation, when they considered what they once were, no better than others, but children of wrath, even as others; and partly to observe to them, and the more to illustrate and magnify the grace of God in their conversion, pardon, justification, and salvation; as also to point out to them the obligations that lay upon them to live otherwise now than they formerly did. BUT YE ARE WASHED; which...

1. _Dare any of you, having a matter against another, go to law before the unjust, and not before the saints?_ In those days, the courts of law were utterly unjust. It was all a matter of who could bribe the most, for he would gain the suit. I think that we cannot say that it is quite like this at the present time in our law courts, neither can this verse be strictly a rule for the guidance of men in these days, except that, in the spirit of Paul's words, all lawsuits among Christians should be avoided if possible. 1 Corinthians 6:2. _Do ye not know that the saints shall judge the world? and if the world shall be judged by you, are ye unworthy to judge the smallest matters? Know ye not that we shall judge angels?_ Sitting with Christ, at the last great day of judgment, we shall give our «Amen» to the condemnation of the fallen spiri

ARE WASHED Were, and so throughout the verse. JUSTIFIED Justification. (Galatians 2:16); (Luke 18:14); (Romans 3:28)....

1 CORINTHIANS 6:11 VIhsou/ Cristou/ {C} The readings with h`mw/n (B Cvid P 33 1739 itar, r vg syrp, h with * copsa, bo arm eth _al_) appear to have arisen by scribal assimilation to the following h`mw/n. Even though the Textus Receptus, following A Dc Y 88 614 _Byz Lect_ syrh, has the shortest reading (VIhsou/), a majority of the Committee interpreted the absence of Cristou/ to be the result of an accident in transcription and preferred to read VIhsou/ Cristou/ with î11vid, 46 a D* P itd I...