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1 Corinthians 6:9
Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom, of God? Be not deceived; neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind,
Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom, of God? Be not deceived; neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind,
Verse 1 Corinthians 6:9. _THE UNRIGHTEOUS SHALL NOT INHERIT THE KINGDOM_] The unrighteous, αδικοι, those who act _contrary_ to _right_, cannot _inherit_, for the inheritance is by _right_. He who is...
KNOW YE NOT ... - The apostle introduces the declaration in this verse to show the evil of their course, and especially of the injustice which they did one to another, and their attempt to enforce and...
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...
THE SCANDAL OF CHRISTIANS SUING EACH OTHER BEFORE HEATHEN TRIBUNALS. Paul has prepared for his next rebuke by his reference to the function of the church to judge its own members. But alas, Christians...
THE FOLLY OF THE LAW COURTS (1 Corinthians 6:1-8)...
Are you not aware that the unrighteous will not inherit the Kingdom of God? Make no mistake--neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor sensualists, nor homosexuals, nor thieves, nor rapa...
UNRIGHTEOUS. Same as unjust (1 Corinthians 6:1). THE KINGDOM OF GOD. See App-114, and Compare 1 Corinthians 4:20. NOT. App-105. DECEIVED. Greek. _planao._ This caution occurs three times in Paul's e...
_Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God?_ The Apostle in this verse sums up what he has been saying in this chapter and the last. First generally, the unjust, wrong-doer...
THE WAY TO SETTLE DISPUTES IN THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH The principle is here laid down which is to guide Christians in their lawsuits. Disputes about property are treated by the Apostle as matters of the...
Ἢ ΟΥ̓Κ ΟἼΔΑΤΕ. The Apostle in this verse sums up what he has been saying in this chapter and the last. First generally, the unjust, wrong-doers, shall not inherit the kingdom of God, that is, His fina...
_CHRISTIANS BELONG TO GOD 1 CORINTHIANS 6:9-14:_ Those that are saved are changed people. Before their conversion some of the Corinthians had been, "fornicators, idolaters, adulterers, effeminate, abu...
ΟΎΚ отр. вводит вопрос, на который ожидается утвердительный ответ, ΘΕΟΎ (G2316) эмфатическое по положению, ΚΛΉΡΟΝΟΜΉΣΟΥΣΙΝ _fut. ind. act. от_ ΚΛΗΡΟΝΟΜΈΩ (G2816) наследовать, вступать в полное владе...
DISCOURSE: 1958 GOD’S MERCY TO THE VILEST SINNERS 1 Corinthians 6:9. Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adu...
BUTLER'S COMMENTS SECTION 2 Debauched Are Not Brothers (1 Corinthians 6:9-11) 9 Do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived; neither the immoral, nor...
APPLEBURY'S COMMENTS _Going to Court Before Pagan Judges_ (1-11) _Text_ 1 Corinthians 6:1-11. Dare any of you, having a matter against his neighbor, go to law before the unrighteous, and not before...
Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind,...
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...
SHALL NOT INHERIT THE KINGDOM] i.e. have no share in its present privileges and future blessings. The kingdom of God is a spiritual kingdom (John 18:36); its blessings and privileges are spiritual; ho...
_(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. 'But the fault lies deeper than this, for you should have no such disputes at all. Far better be wronged and defrauded (8) than wrong and defraud your brethren. (9, 10) After all, in the e...
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...
KNOW YE NOT THAT THE UNRIGHTEOUS...? — The force of this question comes out more strikingly in the original, where the word rendered “unrighteous” is the same as “ye do wrong” of 1 Corinthians 6:8. “Y...
CHAPTER 9 ON GOING TO LAW ST. PAUL here gives his judgment on the litigiousness of the Corinthians. The Greeks, in general, were fond of going to law. They were not only quarrelsome, but they seemed...
§ 18. WARNING TO IMMORAL CHRISTIANS. Behind the scandal of the law-suits there lay a deeper mischief in their _cause_. They were immediately due to unchristian resentment on the part of the aggrieved;...
On ἤ οὐκ οἴδατε; see note to 1 Corinthians 6:2. The wrongers of their brethren are surely unaware of the fact that “wrong-doers (ἄδικοι) will not inherit God's kingdom” (which nevertheless they profes...
SETTLING DIFFERENCES BETWEEN BRETHREN 1 Corinthians 6:1 The Apostle was clearly of the opinion that it was wiser for a Christian to bear injustice and wrong than to go to law before a heathen tribuna...
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...
Becoming A Christian Means Changing Relationships Those in the church at Corinth needed to remember that those wronging others would not see heaven. Sin will be punished (Galatians 6:7-8). Paul then w...
Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? (8) Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind,...
Defraud....your brethren. That is, you still make yourselves much more guilty by the injustices done to one another: for the unjust, and all they who are guilty of such crimes as I have mentioned, sha...
“Or know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind,...
Provisionally the apostle had passed over in silence the fact itself of the discussion of selfish interests between Christians, to condemn only their having recourse to the judicial intervention of he...
III. LAWSUITS. 6:1-11 The subject of discipline, though connected with the domain of ecclesiastical life, trenched on the sphere of moral questions. We come now to the subjects which belong exclusive...
(9) Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind,...
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...
9._Know ye not_, etc. By _unrighteousness _here you may understand what is opposed to strict integrity. The_unrighteous_, then, that is, those who inflict injury on their brethren, who defraud or circ...
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...
KNOW YE NOT THAT THE UNRIGHTEOUS SHALL NOT INHERIT THE KINGDOM OF GOD?.... A way of speaking much like that in the Talmud, הוי יודע שהעולם הבא אינו עשוי אלא לצדיקים "know thou, that the world to come...
Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind, Ver...
_Know ye not_ With all your boasted knowledge; _that the unrighteous_ That is, not only the _unjust_, but those destitute of true righteousness and holiness, comprehending the various classes of sinne...
THE UNRIGHTEOUS; those who are dishonest and defraud others, whether under the cover of law, or in any other way....
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...
OR KNOW YE NOT THAT THE UNRIGHTEOUS SHALL NOT INHERIT THE KINGDOM OF GOD? BE NOT DECEIVED: NEITHER FORNICATORS, NOR IDOLATERS, NOR ADULTERERS, NOR EFFEMINATE, NOR ABUSERS OF THEMSELVES WITH MEN, 'Or...
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...
That by THE KINGDOM OF GOD is here meant the kingdom of glory, the happiness of another life, is plain, because he speaketh in the future tense; this kingdom, he saith, THE UNRIGHTEOUS, that is, those...
Or know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? [That glorious celestial kingdom of which the church is the earthly type.] _Be not deceived_ [so as to think sin will not resu...
Epistle of Polycarp to the Philippians and "neither fornicators, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind, shall inherit the kingdom of God,"[37] Epistle of Ignatius to the Ephesians...
1 Corinthians 6:9 G2228 you G1492 not G3756 know G1492 (G5758) that G3754 unrighteous G94 will G2816 not...
CHRISTIANS ARE NOT TO GO TO COURT AGAINST THEIR FELLOW-CHRISTIANS (6:1-9A). The idea that the church judges internal matters like sin leads on to the idea that the church can also act as judge in disp...
‘Do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the Kingly Rule of God?' Do they not realise in all this that those who behave unjustly or wrongly thereby reveal that they are disqualified from...
1 Corinthians 6:9. WHAT, KNOW YE NOT THAT THE UNRIGHTEOUS (‘the wrong-doers') SHALL NOT INHERIT THE KINGDOM OF GOD? BE NOT DECEIVED: NEITHER FORNICATOR, NOR IDOLATERS, whose religion was itself volupt...
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....
THE UNRIGHTEOUS (αδικο). To remind them of the verb αδικεω just used.THE KINGDOM OF GOD (θεου βασιλειαν). Precisely, God's kingdom.BE NOT DECEIVED (μη πλανασθε). Present passive imperative with...
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 b...
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...
WILL NOT RECEIVE GOD'S KINGDOM. The church is God's Kingdom on earth, and all who die in Christ will receive the Eternal Kingdom! DO NOT FOOL YOURSELVES. No unholy person will receive the Eternal King...
_Know ye not Shall the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God?_ PERSISTENT SELF-DECEPTION Sometimes we persistently deceive ourselves. We insist upon pursuing a policy for our benefit which...
1 CORINTHIANS—NOTE ON 1 CORINTHIANS 6:9 Paul’s use of the word UNRIGHTEOUS (the same Greek word discussed in the note on vv. 1 Corinthians 6:7) imp
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_ TRANSITIONAL SECTION.— 1 Corinthians 6:9 1 Corinthians 6:9.—Query, is the particular “_wrong_” and “_defrauding_” in 1 Corinthians 6:8 connected with...
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 15:50; 1 Corinthians 3:16; 1 Corinthians 5:1; 1 Corinthians 5:10;...
Kingdom of God. See on Luke 6:20. Fornicators. The besetting sin of Corinth. Hence the numerous solemn and emphatic allusions to it in this epistle. See ch. 1 Corinthians 5:11; 1 Corinthians 6:15-18;...
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,...
Idolatry is here placed between fornication and adultery, because they generally accompanied it. Nor the effeminate — Who live in an easy, indolent way; taking up no cross, enduring no hardship. But h...
Was Paul’s condemnation of homosexuality merely his private opinion? PROBLEM: Paul told the Corinthians that “neither fornicators … nor homosexuals … will inherit the kingdom of God” (6:9–10). But in...
Observe here, 1. Our apostle's positive assertion, and categorical proposition, THAT THE UNRIGHTEOUS SHALL NOT INHERIT THE KINGDOM OF GOD; where by unrighteousness, is meant injustice and injuriousnes...