1 Corinthians 6:20

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 justice, by the love of God in Christ, for our redemption (; ; ; ; 1 Peter 1:18; ; ). While He thus took off our obligation to punishment, He laid upon us an obligation to obedience ...

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 allows that the body is subject to God no less than the soul, and that accordingly it is reasonable that both be devoted to his glory. “As it is befitting that the mind of a believer should be pure, so there must be a corresponding outward profession also before men, inasmuch as the power of both is in the hands of God, who has redeemed both.” With the same view he declared a little ago, that not only our souls but our bodies also are _temples of the Holy Spirit_, that we may not think that we discharge our duty to him aright, if we do not devote ourselves wholly and entirely to his service, that he may by his word regulate even the outward actions of our life....

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 we must stand fast. But surely a Christian would never put himself into the power of any bodily appetite. The body is for the Lord; is to be an instrument of righteousness to holiness, therefore is never to be made an instrument of sin. It is an honour to the body, that Jesus Christ was raised from the dead; and it will be an honour to our bodies, that they will be raised. The hope of a resurrection to glory, should keep Christians from dishonouring their bodies by fleshly lusts. And if the soul be united to Christ by faith, the whole man is become a member of his spiritual body. Other vices may be conquered in fight; that here cautioned against, only by flight. And vast multitudes are cut o...

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 blood of Christ, are not _your own_, you are his _property_. As the slave is bound to use all his skill and diligence for the emolument of his master, so you should employ body, soul, and spirit in the service of your Lord; promoting, by every means in your power, the honour and glory of your God, whom you must also consider as your _Lord_ and _Master_. There are strange discordances in MSS., _versions_, and _fathers_, on the conclusion of this verse; and the clauses και εν τῳ πνευματι ὑμων, ἁτινα εστι του Θεου, _and in your spirit, which is_ _God's_, is wanting in ABC*D*EFG, some others, Coptic, AEthiopic,

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 urged that, therefore, Christians should be devoted to God; see 1 Corinthians 7:23; 1Pe 1:18-19; 1 Peter 2:9; 2 Peter 2:1; Revelation 5:9; see the note at Acts 20:28. WITH A PRICE - τίμῇ timē. A

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

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 redeemed ones, being ransomed by a price from the bondage of the law, sin, Satan, and the world; but his espoused ones, and which is chiefly designed here; for one way of obtaining and espousing a wife among the Jews was by a price p; "a woman (they say) is obtained or espoused three ways; בכסף, "by silver", by a writing, and by lying with; by silver, the house of Shammai say, by a penny, and the value of a penny; the house of Hillel say, by a "pruta", and the value of a "pruta": how much is a "pruta?" the eighth part of an Italian farthing.'' That is, be it ever so small a price, yet if given and taken on the account of espousals, it made them valid; and it was an ancient rite in marriag...

AND IN YOUR Some authorities end verse with "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 _al_), _Glorificate et portate Deum in corpore vestro_ (“Glorify _and bear_ God in your body”). Apparently this reading arose (in Greek) when a;ra ge was misread as a;rate (arage @ arate). Other variant readings include (_b_) ou=n, syrp copsa Pseudo-Athanasius; (_c_) a;ra ge before doxa,sate, 1611; (_d_) dh. a;rate, Chryso...

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 their disputes amongst themselves, as it becomes the Saints of God, they brought their difficulties before a heathen court. In doing this they had lost sight of the dignity of their calling. The Saints of God are to reign with Christ and share His glory; they shall judge the world and angels in that day. Going to a heathen court to have these matters settled by one who was not a child of God, but unrighteous, was unworthy of them; they were making known their own shame before the world. If they had remembered that coming day of glory, when as Saints they were to par