Wesley's Explanatory Notes
1 Corinthians 7:19
Circumcision is nothing, and uncircumcision is nothing — Will neither promote nor obstruct our salvation. The one point is, keeping the commandments of God; "faith working by love."
Circumcision is nothing, and uncircumcision is nothing — Will neither promote nor obstruct our salvation. The one point is, keeping the commandments of God; "faith working by love."
Verse 19. _CIRCUMCISION IS NOTHING_] Circumcision itself, though commanded of God, is nothing _of itself_, it being only a sign of the justification which should be afterwards received by faith. At pr...
CIRCUMCISION IS NOTHING ... - It is of no consequence in itself. It is not that which God requires now. And the mere external rite can be of no consequence one way or the other. The heart is all; and...
4. CONCERNING THE RELATIONSHIP OF MAN AND WOMAN CHAPTER 7 _ 1. The Single and the Married Life. (1 Corinthians 7:1)._ 2. Separation and Divorce. (1 Corinthians 7:10). 3. Abiding in the Different Ca...
He now passes on to special classes. First, those who are unmarried or have lost their partners. It would be best for them to follow Paul's example and remain as they are. But if they have not the gif...
COMPLETE ASCETICISM (1 Corinthians 7:1-2)...
The one thing that is necessary is that each man should walk as God has allotted to him and as God has called him. It is thus that I order things in all the Churches. Was any man called after he had b...
NOTHING. Greek. _ oudeis._ Compare Galatians 1:5; Galatians 1:6; Galatians 6:15. KEEPING. guarding. Greek. _ teresis._ This is the Figure of speech _ Ellipsis_ (App-6). Supply "is every thing", o
_Circumcision is nothing_ It was not circumcision in itself that had any value, but the obedience to a divine command....
Christianity not intended to revolutionize the relations between the believer and society 17. _But as God hath distributed_ The permission to live apart from a heathen husband or wife is given only to...
Ἡ ΠΕΡΙΤΟΜῊ ΟΥ̓ΔΈΝ ἘΣΤΙΝ. It is not circumcision or uncircumcision that are of any value in themselves. No external act has any inherent value. It is simply the keeping of God’s commands which avails w...
CHRISTIANITY NOT INTENDED TO REVOLUTIONIZE THE RELATIONS BETWEEN THE BELIEVER AND SOCIETY...
_CONCERNING GOD'S CALL 1 CORINTHIANS 7:17-24:_ The Bible teaches that we should be content in whatever situation we are in. Paul said, "As the Lord hath called every one, so let him walk. And so ordai...
ΤΉΡΗΣΙΣ (G5084) хранение, наблюдение, стража. Об именах, заканчивающихся подобным суффиксом и выражающих действие, _см._ МН, 373f. ΈΝΤΟΛΏΝ _gen. pl. от_ ΕΝΤΟΛΉ (G1785) заповедь. Obj. _gen._...
BUTLER'S COMMENTS SECTION 3 The Pressures of Marriage (1 Corinthians 7:17-40) 17 Only, let every one lead the life which the Lord has assigned to him, and in which God has called him. This is my rul...
APPLEBURY'S COMMENTS _Directions for the Married_ (10-24) _Commentary_ Unto the married, I give charge.Paul, speaking as an apostle of Christ, gives direction to those who are already married. It is...
Circumcision is nothing, and uncircumcision is nothing, but the keeping of the commandments of God. CIRCUMCISION IS NOTHING ... BUT THE KEEPING OF THE COMMANDMENTS OF COD - namely, is all in all. d...
8 It is evident that the preceding concession is only a general rule, not applicable to those not then married. Their relations are to be regulated by mutual consideration, but the unmarried need to c...
_(A) ANSWER TO QUESTIONS ABOUT MARRIAGE_ The Corinthians had in their letter (1 Corinthians 7:1) asked St. Paul's opinion on several points connectedwithmarriage. His language in reply is guarded; he...
CIRCUMCISION IS NOTHING] cp. Galatians 5:6; Galatians 6:15; Romans 2:25. 'Not nationality but obedience to God determines Christian character' (Stevens)....
SERVANTS OF CHRIST 1 CORINTHIANS _HILDA BRIGHT_ CHAPTER 7 ADVICE ABOUT WHETHER TO MARRY 7:1-2 V1 But now I will deal with the matters that you wrote about. It is good for a man not to marry. V2...
CIRCUMCISION IS NOTHING, AND UNCIRCUMCISION IS NOTHING. — Often those who regard some ceremony as unimportant magnify the very disregard of it into a necessary virtue. The Apostle carefully guards aga...
CHAPTER 11 MARRIAGE THERE are two preliminary considerations which throw some light on this much-contested passage. First, Paul had to speak about marriage as he found it, as it existed among those t...
The rule of 1 Corinthians 7:17 applied to the most prominent and critical distinction in the Church, that between _Jew and Gentile_ : περιτετμημένος τις ἐκλήθη κ. τ. λ.; “Was any one called (as) a _ci...
§ 22. GOD'S CALLING AND ONE'S EARTHLY STATION. In treating of questions relating to marriage, the Apostle's general advice admitting of large exceptions (1 Corinthians 7:2; 1 Corinthians 7:9; 1 Corint...
SERVE GOD IN YOUR CALLING 1 Corinthians 7:15 There was much unsettlement in regard to marriage in the church at Corinth. An unnatural asceticism was showing itself in some quarters and a lawless self...
Certain difficulties had arisen in the Corinthian Church concerning which they had sent inquiries to Paul. He now answers their questions. These answers contain principles of permanent application. Th...
The Christian's Social Relations Becoming a Christian should not be used as an excuse for disrupting normal social relations, assuming they are not sinful. Christianity is only disruptive to that whic...
Notwithstanding the intrinsic excellence of celibacy, marriage should be the rule in practice. Such is the general meaning of this first passage....
To illustrate the spirit of the prescriptions which he has just given, and to trace at the same time the line of conduct to be followed in certain analogous cases which occurred in the life of the Chu...
“Is any man called being circumcised, let him not become uncircumcised; is any called in uncircumcision, let him not be circumcised. 19. Circumcision is nothing, and uncircumcision is nothing, but the...
(18) Is any man called being circumcised? let him not become uncircumcised. Is any called in uncircumcision? let him not be circumcised. (19) Circumcision is nothing, and uncircumcision is nothing, bu...
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...
19._Circumcision is nothing _While this similitude was suited to the subject in hand, it appears to have been designedly made use of with the view of reproving, in passing, the superstition and haught...
The apostle proceeds by answering a question in connection with the subject he had been treating the will of God with regard to the relationship between man and woman. They do well who remain outside...
CIRCUMCISION IS NOTHING,.... In the affair of justification before God, and acceptance with him; it cannot make any man righteous in the sight of God, nor recommend him to the divine favour; it is no...
Circumcision is nothing, and uncircumcision is nothing, but the keeping of the commandments of God. Ver. 19. _But the keeping of the commandment_] This is that _bonum hominis, _ good of man, Micah 6:...
_Is any man called_ Brought to the saving knowledge of Christ, and to a participation of his grace; _being circumcised_ Having been born of Jewish parents, and therefore circumcised in his childhood,...
IS NOTHING; as to acceptance with God. THE COMMANDMENTS OF GOD; the keeping of them was all that he required, and this might be done whether a man was circumcised or not....
A general application of these truths:...
CIRCUMCISION IS NOTHING, AND UNCIRCUMCISION IS NOTHING, BUT THE KEEPING OF THE COMMANDMENTS OF GOD....
Those things in Chapter s 5 and 6, which were of such serious importance as demanding correction, had evidently not even been questions in the minds of the Corinthians. But Paul was required to raise...
CIRCUMCISION IS NOTHING, AND UNCIRCUMCISION IS NOTHING; BUT THE KEEPING OF THE COMMANDMENTS OF GOD. 'Circumcision is nothing' -Wow! Talk about. statement that would of "offended" the Jewish community...
17-24 The rules of Christianity reach every condition; and in every state a man may live so as to be a credit to it. It is the duty of every Christian to be content with his lot, and to conduct himse...
Circumcision was an ordinance of God, a sign of God's covenant, as necessary to salvation in its time, as the fufilling of any precept of the law contained in ordinances: and uncircumcision also was s...
Circumcision is nothing, and uncircumcision is nothing; but the keeping of the commandments of God. [is, in this connection, everything.]...
1 Corinthians 7:19 Circumcision G4061 is G2076 (G5748) nothing G3762 and G2532 uncircumcision G203 is G2076 ...
‘Was any man called being circumcised, let him not become uncircumcised. Has any been called in uncircumcision, let him not be circumcised. Circumcision is nothing, and uncircumcision is nothing, but...
CHRISTIANS NEED NOT FEEL COMPELLED TO LEAVE THE STATE IN WHICH THEY WERE WHEN THEY WERE CALLED (7:17-24). Paul now stresses that from a spiritual point of view Christians need not worry about their ea...
_The forgoing Principles applied to other Cases,_ 18-24. And first, _Circumcision._ 1 Corinthians 7:18. WAS ANY MAN CALLED BEING CIRCUMCISED? LET HIM NOT BECOME UNCIRCUMCISED which, under the persec...
BUT THE KEEPING OF THE COMMANDMENTS OF GOD (αλλα τηρησις εντολων θεου). Old word in sense of watching (Acts 4:3). Paul's view of the worthlessness of circumcision or of uncircumcision is stated agai...
1 Corinthians 7:19 _(with Galatians 5:6; Galatians 6:15)_ Forms _versus_Character.. Note: I. The emphatic proclamation of the nullity of outward rites. II. Look at the threefold variety
CONTENTS: Sanctity of marriage. Regulation of marriage among Gentile believers. CHARACTERS: God, Christ, Holy Spirit, Paul. CONCLUSION: Marriage is by divine wisdom prescribed for the preventing of f...
It is evident from the tenor of this chapter that the Corinthians had written to the apostle for advice on the subject of marriage and its obligations, and that he is here resolving their various diff...
MEANS NOTHING, Under the rule of the gospel, these human distinctions have no influence on our salvation. See Galatians 3:28. GOD'S COMMANDMENTS. Not The Law of Moses, but the _law of Christ_! Compare...
_But as God hath distributed to every man, as the Lord hath called every one, so let him walk._ EVERY CHRISTIAN AT HIS POST 1. God appoints every man his station and condition in life. 2. Has calle...
1 CORINTHIANS—NOTE ON 1 CORINTHIANS 7:19 Even though circumcision was no longer commanded (Genesis 17:1), God still had COMMANDMENTS for his people to keep ...
CHAPTER 7 SYNOPSIS OF THE CHAPTER In this chapter he answers five questions of the Corinthians about the laws of matrimony, and about the counsel of virginity and celibacy i. The first question is...
_CRITICAL NOTES_ A. 1. Observe: With this chapter commences a NEW SECTION of the Epistle; the topics, and perhaps their order, suggested by a letter of formal inquiry brought from Corinth: vii. Marri...
EXPOSITION 1 CORINTHIANS 7:1 _Answers to the inquiries of the Corinthians respecting marriage._ 1 CORINTHIANS 7:1 _The_ _lawfulness of marriage, and its duties._...
Shall we turn now in our Bibles to the seventh chapter of I Corinthians. The Corinthian church was a mess. There were just a lot of problems, a problem with carnality. There were divisions in the chur...
1 Corinthians 8:8; 1 John 2:3; 1 John 2:4; 1 John 3:22; 1 John 5:2;...