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Verse 17. _IS ONE SPIRIT._] He who is united to God, by faith in
Christ Jesus, receives his Spirit, and becomes a partaker of the
Divine nature. Who can change such a relationship for communion with a...
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BUT HE THAT IS JOINED TO THE LORD - The true Christian, united by
faith to the Lord Jesus; see John 15:1 ff.
IS ONE SPIRIT - That is, in a sense similar to that in which a man and
his wife are one bod...
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CHAPTER 6
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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...
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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...
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THE FOLLY OF THE LAW COURTS (1 Corinthians 6:1-8)...
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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...
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SPIRIT. App-101. Compare 1 Corinthians 6:15; 1 Corinthians 12:13....
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_he that is joined unto the Lord is one spirit_ Literally, CLEAVETH TO
THE LORD. No words, save perhaps those in St John 17, could more
forcibly express the closeness of the union between Christ and H...
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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...
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Ὁ ΚΟΛΛΏΜΕΝΟΣ ΤΩ͂Ι ΚΥΡΊΩΙ. Literally, CLEAVETH TO
THE LORD. No words, save perhaps those in John 17, could more forcibly
express the closeness of the union between Christ and His faithful
disciple. The...
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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...
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_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...
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ΈΝ ΠΝΕΎΜΑ (G1520; G4151) один дух. Блуд с
проституткой является физическим
союзом, который противоречит
требованиям Господа к телу и создает
противоречие между телом и духом —
который по-прежнему оста...
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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...
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But he that is joined unto the Lord is one spirit.
ONE SPIRIT - with Him. In union with a harlot, the fornicator becomes
one "body" with her, not one "spirit;" for the spirit-the normal organ
of th...
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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...
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_(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...
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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...
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ONE SPIRIT] i.e. he shares in the life of the Lord: cp. John 15:4;
John 15:5....
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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...
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ONE SPIRIT. — The union betwixt Christ and each member of His Church
is a spiritual one. This explains the sense in which we are the
Lord’s body, and intensifies the argument against any degradation o...
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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....
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ὁ δὲ κολλώμενος τῳ Κυρίῳ κ. τ. λ.: “But
he who cleaves to the Lord is one spirit (with Him)”. Adhesion by
the act of faith (1 Corinthians 1:21, etc.) to Christ (as _Lord, cf._
1 Corinthians 12:3, etc....
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1 Corinthians 6:15-17 unfold in its repulsiveness, by vivid concrete
presentment, the opposition between the two claimants for bodily
service already contrasted: the rival of Christ is ἡ πόρνη!
“Or (i...
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§ 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....
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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,
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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...
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Christians Are A Part of Christ's Body
Christians are free to do anything that is not sinful. The Corinthians
had misapplied their freedom to sinful activities. As God's inspired
spokesman, Paul said...
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“Or know ye not that he which is joined to an harlot is one body
[with her]; for the two, it is said, shall be one flesh. 17. And he
that is joined unto the Lord is one spirit [with Him].”
The ἤ, _or_...
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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...
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(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...
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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...
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17._He that is joined to the Lord. _He has added this to show that our
connection with Christ is closer than that of a husband and wife, and
that the former, accordingly, must be greatly preferred bef...
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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...
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HE THAT IS JOINED UNTO THE LORD,.... As every elect person is; his
whole person, soul and body, is united to the Lord Jesus Christ, to
his whole person, as God-man and Mediator; even as Adam and Eve,...
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But he that is joined unto the Lord is one spirit.
Ver. 17. _Is one spirit_] That is, one spiritual body: while Christ
lays hold on us by his Spirit, we lay hold on him by faith. Hence the
Church is...
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_Know ye not that your bodies are the members of Christ_ Mystically
united to him, as well as your souls, if you are his true disciples,
as you profess to be. _Shall I then take the members of Christ_...
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IS ONE SPIRIT; one spirit with Christ: Christ dwells in him and he in
Christ. This mutual union makes him spiritual as Christ is spiritual....
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An earnest warning against immorality:...
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BUT HE THAT IS JOINED UNTO THE LORD IS ONE SPIRIT....
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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...
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BUT HE THAT IS JOINED UNTO THE LORD IS ONE SPIRIT.
When "joined" the Lord in the act of faith expressed in baptism,. took
upon myself the obligation to become "one spirit" with Him. Because
that's tru...
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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...
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This phrase JOINED UNTO THE LORD, is thought to be taken out of
DEUTERONOMY 10:20: _To him shalt thou cleave._ He that hath attained
to that mystical union which is between Christ and every one that i...
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But he that is joined unto the Lord is one spirit. [Having closest
spiritual union with Christ-- Galatians 2:20; Galatians 3:27;
Colossians 3:17]...
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1 Corinthians 6:17 But G1161 joined G2853 (G5746) Lord G2962 is G2076
(G5748) one G1520 spirit G4151...
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‘Do you not know that your bodies are members of Christ. Shall I
then take away the members of Christ and make them members of a
prostitute? May it not be. Or do you not know that he who is joined in...
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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....
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1 Corinthians 6:17. BUT HE THAT IS JOINED UNTO THE LORD IS ONE SPIRIT
becomes by that union partaker of a life in common with the Lord,
spiritual and imperishable....
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ONE SPIRIT
(εν πνευμα). With the Lord, the inner vital spiritual union
with the Lord Jesus (Ephesians 4:4; Ephesians 5:30)....
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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...
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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...
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BUT HE. Paul uses the marriage relationship (the physical union) to
symbolize the spiritual union to Christ. Compare Ephesians 5:25-33; 2
Corinthians 5:17; Galatians 3:27....
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_He that is joined unto the Lord is one spirit._
--The apostle was wont to associate the commonest duties with the
highest motives. In dissuading from the sin of impurity, he might have
adduced consi...
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_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...
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1 CORINTHIANS—NOTE ON 1 CORINTHIANS 6:16 Sexual union has a
spiritual component. That means sexual activity outside marriage is a
sin against Christ (v. 1 Corinthians 6:15) and
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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,...
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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...
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_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
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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
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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...
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1 Corinthians 12:13; Ephesians 4:3; Ephesians 4:4; Ephesians 5:30;...
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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,...
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But he that is joined to the Lord — By faith. Is one spirit with him
— And shall he make himself one flesh with an harlot?...