And even your body is not, strictly speaking, your own even this is the temple of the Holy Ghost — Dedicated to him, and inhabited by him. What the apostle calls elsewhere "the temple of God," 1 Corinthians 3:16, and "the temple of the living God," 2 Corinthians 6:16, he here styles the temple of the Holy Ghost; plainly showing that the Holy Ghost is the living God.
Verse 19. _YOUR BODY IS THE TEMPLE OF THE HOLY GHOST_] What an astonishing saying is this! As truly as the living God dwelt in the Mosaic tabernacle, and in the temple of Solomon, so truly does the H...
WHAT! KNOW YE NOT ... - This is the fifth argument against this sin. The Holy Spirit dwells in us; our bodies are his temples; and they should not be defiled and polluted by sin; see the note at 1 Cor...
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...
THE. a. TEMPLE. Greek. _naos_. See 1 Corinthians 3:16. HOLY GHOST. Holy Spirit. App-101. OF. from. App-104....
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...
_know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost_ See note on ch. 1 Corinthians 3:16, and cf. 2 Corinthians 6:16; Eph 2:21-22; 1 Timothy 3:15;...
ΝΑῸΣ ΤΟΥ͂ ἘΝ ὙΜΙ͂Ν ἉΓΊΟΥ ΠΝΕΎΜΑΤΌΣ ἘΣΤΙΝ. See note on ch. 1 Corinthians 3:16. Observe also that God in Christ acts through the Spirit (cf. 1 Corinthians 6:11; 1 Corinthians 6:15 of this chapter), so t...
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...
ΟΎΚ (G3756) отр. вводит вопрос, на который ожидается утвердительный ответ, ΝΑΌΣ (G3485) храм, обитель Бога, внутреннее святилище (Lenski). Указание либо на Иерусалимский храм, либо на храм Афродиты в...
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...
WHAT! KNOW YE NOT, &C.— This question is repeated six times in this chapter, and seems to carry with it a very strong _irony_ on their pretence to extraordinary wisdom. See ch. 1 Corinthians 4:10. Loc...
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...
What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own? YOUR BODY - not 'bodies.' Proof of 1 Corinthians 6:18. As in 1 Corin...
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...
THE TEMPLE] i.e. the shrine wherein He dwells: cp. 1 Corinthians 3:16; 2 Corinthians 6:16. YE ARE NOT YOUR OWN] The best of all reasons for not defiling the body....
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...
(14) What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost [which is] in you, which ye have of God, and (15) ye are not your own? (14) The third argument: because a fornicator is sacrilegi...
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...
“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...
(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...
_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...
_THE SACREDNESS OF THE BODY_ ‘What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost?’ 1 Corinthians 6:19 The beauty of the temple of the body, its real beauty, reflects entirely the inne...
19._Know ye not that your body _He makes use of two additional arguments, in order to deter us from this filthiness. _First_, That _our bodies are temples of the Spirit_; and, _secondly_, that _the Lo...
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...
WHAT? KNOW YE NOT THAT YOUR BODY IS THE TEMPLE OF THE HOLY GHOST,.... What is said in 1 Corinthians 3:16 of the saints in general, is here said of their bodies in particular. The Holy Spirit, in regen...
What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost _which is_ in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own? Ver. 19. _That your body is the temple_] Shall we make the temple of...
_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...
THE TEMPLE; the dwelling-place of the Holy Spirit....
WHAT? KNOW YE NOT THAT YOUR BODY IS THE TEMPLE OF THE HOLY GHOST WHICH IS IN YOU, WHICH YE HAVE OF GOD, AND YE ARE NOT YOUR OWN?...
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...
OR KNOW YE NOT THAT YOUR BODY IS. TEMPLE OF THE HOLY SPIRIT WHICH IS IN YOU, WHICH YE HAVE FROM GOD? AND YE ARE NOT YOUR OWN; 'Or know ye not' -it appears that each "know ye not" introduces another...
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...
The apostle, 1 CORINTHIANS 3:16, had called the church of Corinth, THE TEMPLE OF GOD, and there made use of it to dissuade them from dissensions and divisions, because by them they defiled and destroy...
Or know ye not that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit which is in you, which ye have from God? [as the whole church is a temple (1 Corinthians 3:16; Romans 14:8), so also the body of each indiv...
Epistle of Ignatius to the Ephesians There is nothing which is hid from God, but our very secrets are near to Him. Let us therefore do all things as those who have Him dwelling in us, that we may be...
1 Corinthians 6:19 Or G2228 not G3756 know G1492 (G5758) that G3754 your G5216 body G4983 is G2076 ...
‘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...
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....
1 Corinthians 6:19. WHAT, KNOW YE NOT THAT YOUR BODY IS THE TEMPLE OF THE HOLY GHOST WHICH IS IN you (see on chap. 1 Corinthians 2:11), WHICH YE HAVE FROM GOD as His gift through the risen Saviour, an...
YOUR BODY IS A TEMPLE (το σωμα υμων ναος εστιν). A sanctuary as in 1 Corinthians 3:16 which see. Our spirits dwell in our bodies and the Holy Spirit dwells in our spirits. Some of the Gnostics split...
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...
YOUR BODY IS THE TEMPLE OF THE HOLY SPIRIT. Every Christian is a "Spirit-filled Christian" (Acts 2:38; Acts 5:32; Ephesians 2:22; John 7:38-39). But to
_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 6:19 TEMPLE OF THE HOLY SPIRIT WITHIN YOU. The Spirit of the Lord lives within individual Christians (v. 1 Corinthians
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...
_Know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost?_ They, therefore, who pollute their bodies by impurity are guilty of sacrilege, for they sin against the Holy Ghost. They do Him wrong by r...
_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 Chronicles 29:14; 1 Corinthians 3:16; 1 Corinthians 6:15; 1 Corinthians 6:16;...
Temple [ν α ο ς]. Better, as Rev., in margin, sanctuary. It is not only a temple, but the very shrine. See on ch. 1 Corinthians 3:16. Glorify. See on John 7:39. Omit and in your spirit, which are God...
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,...
Here we have the apostle's fifth argument against fornication and uncleanness, and it runs thus: "Temples which are peculiarly consecrated unto God and his service, ought not to be profaned or pollute...