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1 Corinthians 6:11

But ye are washed... by the Spirit of our God. Ye were justified in baptism by the Holy Spirit. So Chrysostom, Theophylact, Œcumenius. S. Cyprian gives a beautiful example of this washing and change of character, produced in his own case by being baptized into Christianity, in Ephesians 2, to Donatus, in which he candidly confesses what sort of man he was before his baptism, what a sudden change passed over him through the grace of baptism, and what benefits Christianity conferred upon him, which, as he says, "is the death of vices, the life of virtues." Nazianzen (Orat. Funebr. in Laudem S. Cypr.) says the same, and relates his wonderful conversion, and the change of heart and life which baptism wrought in him.

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  • A Textual Commentary On The Greek New Testament by Bruce M. Metzger

    1 CORINTHIANS 6:11 VIhsou/ Cristou/ {C} The readings with h`mw/n (B Cvid P 33 1739 itar, r vg syrp, h with * copsa, bo arm eth _al_) appear to have arisen by scribal assimilation to the following h`m...

  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse 1 Corinthians 6:11. _AND SUCH WERE SOME OF YOU_] It was not with the prospect of collecting _saints_ that the apostles went about preaching the Gospel of the kingdom. None but _sinners_ were to...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    AND SUCH - Such drunkards, lascivious, and covetous persons. This shows: (1) The exceeding grace of God that could recover even such persons from sins so debasing and degrading. (2) It shows that we...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    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...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    THE SCANDAL OF CHRISTIANS SUING EACH OTHER BEFORE HEATHEN TRIBUNALS. Paul has prepared for his next rebuke by his reference to the function of the church to judge its own members. But alas, Christians...

  • Barclay Daily Study Bible (NT)

    Are you not aware that the unrighteous will not inherit the Kingdom of God? Make no mistake--neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor sensualists, nor homosexuals, nor thieves, nor rapa...

  • Barclay Daily Study Bible (NT)

    THE FOLLY OF THE LAW COURTS (1 Corinthians 6:1-8)...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    SUCH. Literally these things. SOME. App-123. WASHED. Greek. _apolouo._ App-136. Only here and Acts 22:16. Compare John 13:10. SANCTIFIED. Greek. _hagiazo._ See John 17:17. JUSTIFIED.

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _but ye are washed, but ye are sanctified, but ye are justified_ The past tense is employed in the original -ye _were_washed, sanctified, justified." The allusion is to baptism, where by a solemn prof...

  • Cambridge Greek Testament for Schools and Colleges Commentary

    THE WAY TO SETTLE DISPUTES IN THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH The principle is here laid down which is to guide Christians in their lawsuits. Disputes about property are treated by the Apostle as matters of the...

  • Cambridge Greek Testament for Schools and Colleges Commentary

    ΧΡΙΣΤΟΥ͂ אBCDE Vetus Lat. Peshito. Vulg. Rec. omit with A. 11. ἈΛΛᾺ�. The past tense is employed in the original—‘ye _were_ washed, sanctified, justified.’ The allusion is to baptism, where by a solem...

  • Charles Box Commentaries

    _CHRISTIANS BELONG TO GOD 1 CORINTHIANS 6:9-14:_ Those that are saved are changed people. Before their conversion some of the Corinthians had been, "fornicators, idolaters, adulterers, effeminate, abu...

  • Charles Rose Commentaries

    ΚΑΊ (G2532) и, и поистине (Godet). ΤΑΎΤΑ (G3778) эти вещи. Существительное выражает презрение: "подобные мерзости!" (EGT). ΤΊΝΕΣ _пот. pl. от_ ΤΙΣ (G5100) некоторый; некто. Павел сужает картину: от...

  • Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

    DISCOURSE: 1958 GOD’S MERCY TO THE VILEST SINNERS 1 Corinthians 6:9. Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adu...

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

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  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

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  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

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  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

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  • Concordant Commentary on the New Testament by A. E. Knoch

    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...

  • Darby's translation notes (1890)

    6:11 washed, (d-12) Or 'washed from' what defiled, so as to be clean. see Acts 22:16 . Washed is strengthened by the addition of the preposition 'from' (apo). in (e-23) by (e-31) _ En_ , 'in virtue of...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    YE ARE WASHED] RM 'ye washed yourselves,' i.e. submitted to baptism as the sign of the washing away of your sin. SANCTIFIED] set apart, dedicated to God's service. JUSTIFIED] accepted as righteous....

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    PARAPHRASE. 'But the fault lies deeper than this, for you should have no such disputes at all. Far better be wronged and defrauded (8) than wrong and defraud your brethren. (9, 10) After all, in the e...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    _(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...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

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  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    SUCH WERE SOME OF YOU. — The Greek for “such” is in the neuter, and implies “of such a description were some of you.” YE ARE WASHED. — Better, _ye washed them off._ referring to the fact that their ba...

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    CHAPTER 9 ON GOING TO LAW ST. PAUL here gives his judgment on the litigiousness of the Corinthians. The Greeks, in general, were fond of going to law. They were not only quarrelsome, but they seemed...

  • Expositor's Greek Testament (Nicoll)

    § 18. WARNING TO IMMORAL CHRISTIANS. Behind the scandal of the law-suits there lay a deeper mischief in their _cause_. They were immediately due to unchristian resentment on the part of the aggrieved;...

  • Expositor's Greek Testament (Nicoll)

    καὶ ταῦτά τινες ἦτε : “And these things you were, some (of you)”. The neuter ταῦτα is contemptuous “such abominations!” τινὲς softens the aspersion; the majority of Cor [956] Christians had not been g...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    SETTLING DIFFERENCES BETWEEN BRETHREN 1 Corinthians 6:1 The Apostle was clearly of the opinion that it was wiser for a Christian to bear injustice and wrong than to go to law before a heathen tribuna...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    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...

  • Gary Hampton Commentaries

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  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

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  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

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  • Godet's commentary on Luke, John, Romans, 1 Corinthians

    Provisionally the apostle had passed over in silence the fact itself of the discussion of selfish interests between Christians, to condemn only their having recourse to the judicial intervention of he...

  • Godet's commentary on Luke, John, Romans, 1 Corinthians

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  • Godet's commentary on Luke, John, Romans, 1 Corinthians

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  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

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  • Introductory Lectures - Commentary by William Kelly

    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...

  • James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary

    _LIVING MIRACLES_ ‘And such were some of you: but ye are washed, but ye are sanctified, but ye are justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and by the Spirit of our God.’ 1 Corinthians 6:11 The Eva...

  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

    11._And such were ye. _Some add a term of speciality: _Such were some of you_, as in Greek the word τινὲς is added; but I am rather of opinion that the Apostle speaks in a general way. I consider that...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    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...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    AND SUCH WERE SOME OF YOU,.... Not all, but some of them; and of these everyone was not guilty of all these crimes; but some had been guilty of one, and others of another; so that they had been all co...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    And such were some of you: but ye are washed, but ye are sanctified, but ye are justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and by the Spirit of our God. Ver. 11. _Such were some of you_] Oh, the infini...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _Know ye not_ With all your boasted knowledge; _that the unrighteous_ That is, not only the _unjust_, but those destitute of true righteousness and holiness, comprehending the various classes of sinne...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    A warning to the immoral Christians:...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    AND SUCH WERE SOME OF YOU; BUT YE ARE WASHED, BUT YE ARE SANCTIFIED, BUT YE ARE JUSTIFIED IN THE NAME OF THE LORD JESUS AND BY THE SPIRIT OF OUR GOD. The apostle had just told the Corinthians that the...

  • Leslie M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Mark Dunagan Commentaries

    AND SUCH WERE SOME OF YOU: BUT YE WERE WASHED, BUT YE WERE SANCTIFIED, BUT YE WERE JUSTIFIED IN THE NAME OF THE LORD JESUS CHRIST, AND IN THE SPIRIT OF OUR GOD. 'And such were some of you' -'And the...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    9-11 The Corinthians are warned against many great evils, of which they had formerly been guilty. There is much force in these inquiries, when we consider that they were addressed to a people puffed...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    In the two last verses the apostle had pronounced a terrible sentence, especially to the Corinthians, who, having been heathens lately, had wallowed in a great deal of this guilt; he therefore here, t...

  • McGarvey and Pendleton Commentaries

    And such were some of you [they had been true Corinthians]: _but ye were washed_ [Acts 22:16; Ephesians 5:26; Titus 3:5 Hebrews 10:22], but ye were sanc

  • NT Verse References in the Ante-Nicene Fathers

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  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    1 Corinthians 6:11 And G2532 such G5023 were G2258 (G5713) you G5100 But G235 washed G628 (G5668) but...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    ‘Do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the Kingly Rule of God?' Do they not realise in all this that those who behave unjustly or wrongly thereby reveal that they are disqualified from...

  • Philip Schaff's Popular Commentary on the NT (4 vols)

    1 Corinthians 6:10. NOR THIEVES, ETC. 1 Corinthians 6:11. AND SUCH WERE SOME OF YOU. Not all but only “some” of his converts are thus spoken of; and when he says of them that “such” they were, he simp...

  • Philip Schaff's Popular Commentary on the NT (4 vols)

    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....

  • Robertson's Word Pictures of the New Testament

    AND SUCH WERE SOME OF YOU (κα ταυτα τινες ητε). A sharp homethrust. Literally, "And these things (ταυτα, neuter plural) were ye (some of you)." The horror is shown by ταυτα, but by τινες Paul narrow...

  • Scofield's Bible Commentary

    ARE WASHED Were, and so throughout the verse. JUSTIFIED Justification. (Galatians 2:16); (Luke 18:14); (Romans 3:28)....

  • Spurgeon's Bible Commentary

    1. _Dare any of you, having a matter against another, go to law before the unjust, and not before the saints?_ In those days, the courts of law were utterly unjust. It was all a matter of who could b...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    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...

  • The Bible Study New Testament

    SOME OF YOU WERE LIKE THAT. This shows the amazing power of the gospel! Faith in "Christ on the cross" leads bad people to become transformed! See 1 Peter 4:3-5. CLEANSED FROM SIN. Literally: "But you...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _Know ye not Shall the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God?_ PERSISTENT SELF-DECEPTION Sometimes we persistently deceive ourselves. We insist upon pursuing a policy for our benefit which...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _And such were some of you, but ye are washed … sanctified … Justified._ THE GREAT CONTRAST Note-- I. The past state of the redeemed. “And such were some of you.” 1. They were void of moral rectit...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    1 CORINTHIANS—NOTE ON 1 CORINTHIANS 6:11 WASHED. Spiritual cleansing from the guilt and power of sin (see Titus 3:5). This cleansing is symbolized in the “washing” of ba

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    _CRITICAL NOTES_ TRANSITIONAL SECTION.— 1 Corinthians 6:9 1 Corinthians 6:9.—Query, is the particular “_wrong_” and “_defrauding_” in 1 Corinthians 6:8 connected with...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    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

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    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...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    1 Corinthians 1:2; 1 Corinthians 1:30; 1 Corinthians 12:2; 1 Peter 1:2;...

  • Vincent's Word Studies in the New Testament (4 Volume Set)

    Washed - sanctified - justified. According to fact the order would be justified, washed (baptism), sanctified; but as Ellicott justly remarks, "in this epistle this order is not set forth with any stu...

  • Wells of Living Water Commentary

    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,...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    And such were some of you: but ye are washed — From those gross abominations; nay, and ye are inwardly sanctified; not before, but in consequence of, your being justified in the name — That is, by the...

  • William Burkitt's Expository Notes

    Here we have another argument, which our apostle uses to dissuade them from all gross wickedness in general, and from such unchristian behaviour one towards another, as he had before reproved in parti...

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