Verse 1 Corinthians 6:15. _KNOW YE NOT THAT YOUR BODIES ARE THE MEMBERS OF_ _CHRIST?_] Because he has taken your nature upon him, and thus, as believers in him, ye are the members of Christ. _SHALL...
KNOW YE NOT ... - This is the third argument against licentiousness. It is, that we as Christians are united to Christ (compare the notes at John 15:1 ff); and that it is abominable to take the member...
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...
CHRIST. App-98. GOD FORBID. Greek. _me genoito._ The eleventh occurance of this expression in Paul's epistles. See Romans 3:4....
_Know ye not that your bodies are the members of Christ?_ This solemn truth, that by our calling as Christians we are so closely united to Christ as to be -members of His Body, of His Flesh and of His...
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...
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...
ΟΥ̓Κ ΟἼΔΑΤΕ. A fresh argument. Not only will our bodies be raised up hereafter, but they are the members of Christ now. This solemn truth, that by our calling as Christians we are so closely united to...
_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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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...
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 an harlot? God forbid. Resuming 1 Corinthians 6:13, "the body is ... fo...
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...
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...
_(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...
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...
SHALL I THEN ...? — Having shown the great dignity which attaches to our bodies as immortal members of Christ, the Apostle asks with indignant emphasis, “Shall I take them out from that high and holy...
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....
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...
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...
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...
(11) 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 an harlot? God forbid. (11) A declaration of the former argument b...
“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 an harlot? Let it not be so!” Paul had just said that the body is not for...
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...
(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...
15._Know ye not that our bodies are the members_, etc. Here we have an explanation, or, if you prefer it, an amplification of the foregoing statement. For that expression, _the body is for the Lord_,...
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 YOUR BODIES ARE THE MEMBERS, OF CHRIST,.... The whole persons of God's elect were chosen in Christ, and given to him, and made one with him, their bodies as well as their souls; and b...
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 an harlot? God forbid. Ver. 15. _Shall I then take_] Scipio, when a har...
_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_...
YOUR BODIES ARE THE MEMBERS OF CHRIST; he has redeemed the bodies as well as the souls of believers. As such they are spiritually united to him now, and shall be throughout eternity....
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 AN HARLOT? GOD FORBID!...
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...
KNOW YE NOT THAT YOUR BODIES ARE MEMBERS OF CHRIST? SHALL. THEN TAKE AWAY THE MEMBERS OF CHRIST, AND MAKE THEM MEMBERS OF. HARLOT? GOD FORBID. 'Know ye not' -'Again it is implied that they had learn...
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...
Christ is united to the person of the believer, and he is the Head of the church, which is his mystical body; so that the bodies of believers are in a sense the members of Christ, and should be used b...
Know ye not that your bodies are members of Christ? [parts of his body (1 Corinthians 12:27; Ephesians 5:30); branches of the Vine-- John 15:5] shall I then take away the members of Christ, and make t...
Clement of Alexandria The Instructor Book II "Nor," as Paul says, "is it meet to make the members of Christ the members of an harlot; nor must the temple of God be made the temple of base affections....
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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...
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 6:15. KNOW YE NOT THAT YOUR BODIES ARE MEMBERS OF CHRIST? He expects this to be recognised as a first principle (see Ephesians 5:30). SHALL I THEN TAKE AWAY [1] THE MEMBERS OF CHRIST?...
MEMBERS OF CHRIST (μελη Χριστου). Old word for limbs, members. Even the Stoics held the body to be common with the animals (Epictetus, _Diss_. l. iii. 1) and only the reason like the gods. Without d...
SHALL I Paul does not invoke the authority of the seventh commandment, but appeals to the believer's sacredness as a member of Christ....
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...
YOU KNOW. Current religious thought says man is only valuable because he has a _soul._ Paul says the Christian's body is part of the body of Christ. See 1 Corinthians 6:19. THE BODY OF A PROSTITUTE? T...
_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...
_Meats for the belly, and the belly for meats._ CHRISTIANITY IN RELATION TO THE BODY The apostle here states, perhaps in answer to a question on the subject, that there is a limitation to Christian...
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 bodies are the members of Christ?_ For ye yourselves, and consequently your body and soul, are members of the Church of Christ. S. Augustine (_Serm._ 18. _in hæc Verb._) says be...
_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 Corinthians 11:3; 1 Corinthians 12:27; 1 Corinthians 6:19; Colossians 2:19;...
Members of Christ. The body is not only for the Lord (ver. 13), adapted for Him : it is also united with Him. See Ephesians 4:16. Members of a harlot. The union of man and woman, whether lawful or un...
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,...
A third argument here follows: "Our bodies are the members of Christ, as well as our souls; that is, the union is made between Christ and us, consisting of soul and body both. Now, shall we dispose o...