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Verse 18. _FLEE FORNICATION._] Abominate, detest, and escape from
every kind of uncleanness. Some sins, or solicitations to sin, may be
_reasoned_ with; in the above cases, if you _parley_ you are und...
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FLEE FORNICATION - A solemn command of God - as explicit as any that
thundered from Mount Sinai. None can disregard it with impunity - none
can violate it without being exposed to the awful vengeance...
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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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EVERY, i.e. every other.
SIN. App-128.
MAN. App-123.
WITHOUT. Greek. _ektos._ Occurs: Matthew 23:26 (outside). 2
Corinthians 12:2; 2 Corinthians 12:3 (out of)....
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_Every sin that a man doeth is without the body_ That is, every other
sinful act which affects the body approaches it from without and
affects particular members. But this sin takes the body itself as...
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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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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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ΠΑ͂Ν ἉΜΆΡΤΗΜΑ. This word signifies some particular error,
ἁμαρτία the general tendency to error. See Arist. _Nic. Eth._
1 Corinthians 6:8, VI. 8. It is remarkable that ἁμάρτημα is
common in classical,...
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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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EVERY SIN, &C.——"Every other sin which a man practises _is without
the body;_ its effects fall not so directly upon the body, but often
more immediately upon the mind; but he that committeth fornicati...
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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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Flee fornication. Every sin that a man doeth is without the body; but
he that committeth fornication sinneth against his own body.
FLEE. Our safety in such temptations is flight (; ).
EVERY SIN T...
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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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WITHOUT THE BODY] i.e. outside it; do not affect its spiritual nature
and destiny in the same way as this sin. SINNETH AGAINST HIS OWN BODY]
see on 1 Corinthians 6:14....
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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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_(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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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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FLEE FORNICATION. — These last three verses of the chapter contain a
solemn exhortation to purity, arising out of the previous argument.
WITHOUT THE BODY. — The word “body” is still to be understood a...
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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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§ 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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With vehement abruptness P. turns from exposition to exhortation. “
_Flee_ fornication” other sins may be combated; this must be _fled_,
as by Joseph in Potiphar's house. φεύγετε the opposite of
κολλᾶ...
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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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(13) Flee fornication. Every sin that a man doeth is without the body;
but he that committeth fornication sinneth against his own body.
(13) Another argument why fornication is to be avoided, because...
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“Flee fornication! Every sin that a man doeth is without his body;
but he that committeth fornication sinneth against his body.” Anselm
has well expressed the meaning of the first sentence of the vers...
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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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18._Flee fornication Every sin_, etc. Having set before us honorable
conduct, he now shows how much we ought to abhor _fornication_,
setting before us the enormity of its wickedness and baseness. Now...
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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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FLEE FORNICATION,.... As that which is hurtful, scandalous, and
unbecoming Christians; avoid it, and all the occasions of it, that may
lead unto it, and be incentives of it:
EVERY SIN THAT A MAN DOTH...
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Flee fornication. Every sin that a man doeth is without the body; but
he that committeth fornication sinneth against his own body.
Ver. 18. _Flee fornication_] φευγετε. With post haste flee it.
" _L...
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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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FLEE; do not stop to reason about it or think of it. Turn from it with
detestation, and occupy your mind with things right and good.
IS WITHOUT THE BODY; it is true of sins in general that they are
w...
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An earnest warning against immorality:...
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FLEE FORNICATION. EVERY SIN THAT A MAN DOETH IS WITHOUT THE BODY; BUT
HE THAT COMMITTETH FORNICATION SINNETH AGAINST HIS OWN BODY....
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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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FLEE FORNICATION. EVERY SIN THAT. MAN DOETH IS WITHOUT THE BODY; BUT
HE THAT COMMITTETH FORNICATION SINNETH AGAINST HIS OWN BODY.
'Flee fornication' -'Don't debate with it. Don't rationalize about it...
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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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The apostle cometh to a new argument, by which he presseth them to
flee the sin of uncleanness. It is observed by some, that this sin is
peculiarly to be resisted, not so much by resisting it, and pon...
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Flee fornication. [As Joseph did-- Genesis 39:12] _Every sin that a
man doeth is without the body; but he that committeth fornication
sinneth against his own body_. [Paul notes the mutual adaptation o...
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Clement of Alexandria Stromata Book III
Ad eos autem pudore afficiendos et reprimendos, qui sunt proclives ad
secundas nuptias, apte Apostolus alto quodam tono eloquitur; inquit
enim: "Ecce, omne pec...
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1 Corinthians 6:18 Flee G5343 (G5720) immorality G4202 Every G3956 sin
G265 that G3739 G1437 man G444 does
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‘Flee fornication. Every sin that a man does is outside the body,
but he who commits fornication sins against his own body.'
Thus picture now widens. What Paul is saying not only applies to
consorting...
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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 6:18. FLEE FORNICATION. Note the studiously curt and
stringent language (as that in 1 Corinthians 5:13), and not for
nothing is “flight” here urged. This was what Joseph did (Genesis
39:...
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FLEE
(φευγετε). Present imperative. Have the habit of fleeing
without delay or parley. Note abruptness of the asyndeton with no
connectives. Fornication violates Christ's rights in our bodies
(vers...
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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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AVOID IMMORALITY. Idolatry and immorality go along together. They are
to be avoided (1 Corinthians 10:14). Sins against his own body. This
sin defiles his body, because in it he becomes physically one...
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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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_Flee fornication_. Because, as Anselm, Cassian, and the Fathers
generally teach, other vices are conquered by resistance, lust alone
by flight, viz., by fleeing from women, from the objects and occas...
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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 Peter 2:11; 1 Thessalonians 4:5; 2 Timothy 2:22; Genesis 39:12;...
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Flee. See Genesis 39:12. Socrates, in Plato's "Republic," relates how
the poet Sophocles, in answer to the question "How does love suit with
are?" replied : "Most gladly have I escaped that, and I fee...
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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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Flee fornication — All unlawful commerce with women, with speed,
with abhorrence, with all your might. Every sin that a man commits
against his neighbour terminates upon an object out of himself, and...
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FLEE FORNICATION.
Note, 1. The apostle's advice to escape fornication; and that is, to
flee it, namely, by shunning all occasions of it, all temptations
leading to it, all incentives and provocations...