1 Corinthians 6:19,20

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 the temple of the Holy Spirit within you, which you have (οὗ ἔχετε, gen [990] by attraction to Πνεύματος) from God?” The Holy Spirit dwells in the readers: how but in their body, since they are in the body? (1 Corinthians 3:16, cf. Romans 8:11; also John 2:21): there is the same tacit inference from whole to part as in 1 Corinthians 6:15; the same assumption that the body is essential to the man, which underlies the doctrine of the Resurrection (1 Corinthians 6:15). The Christian estimate of πορνεία is thus categorically opposed to the heathen estimate. In the temple of Aphrodité prostitutes were priestesses, and commerce with them was counted a consecration; it is an absolute desecration of God's true temple in the man himself. “And (that) you are not your own?” This too P. asks his readers if they “do not know?” The possessor is God, who has occupied them by His Spirit, having first purchased them with His Son's blood: cf. 1 Corinthians 1:30; 1 Corinthians 3:23; Romans 8:32; 2 Corinthians 5:18 ff., Acts 20:28. “For you were bought at a price!” the τιμὴ P. does not need to state; it was τίμιον αἷμα (1 Peter 1:18 f.; Ephesians 1:7; Matthew 20:28; Revelation 5:9). Ἀγοράζω, to purchase, syn [991] with (ἀπο) λυτρόομαι, to ransom (1 Corinthians 1:30; Titus 2:14): the latter points to the means of redemption, the former to the proprietorship which it creates (cf. περιεποιήσατο, Acts 20:28); both ideas meet in Ephesians 1:14. The gen [992] of price, τιμῆς, indicates the value at which God rates His purchase. δοξάσατε δὴ κ. τ. λ.: “Now glorify God in your body ” sc. by a chaste life (contrast Romans 2:23). δή (rare in N.T.; h. l. in P.), kindred to the temporal ἤδη, makes the command peremptory, breaking off discussion (cf. Acts 13:2). ἐν, in, not with, your body the temple wherein each man serves as priest; here the ναός, in Romans 12:2 the θυσία. καὶ ἐν τ. πνεύματι κ. τ. λ., of the T.R., is a Syrian gloss, added as if to complete the sense; cf. 1 Corinthians 7:34.

[990] genitive case.

[991] synonym, synonymous.

[992] genitive case.