The Pulpit Commentary - 1 Corinthians 6:12-20
The inexcusable sin and shame of fornication. read more
哥林多前書 6:17-19 Cunpts
Spence, H. D. M., etc.
Spence, H. D. M., etc.
The Pulpit Commentary - 1 Corinthians 6:12-20
Christianity in relation to the body. "All things are lawful unto me, but all things are not expedient," etc. It would seem that there were those in the Church at Corinth who regarded Christianity as giving them a kind of liberty to do whatsoever they wished. Some of them having left Judaism with its various restraints, and others paganism, which also had restrictions, they were too ready to push the doctrine of religious liberty, as proclaimed by Paul, far beyond its limits. The apostle... read more
Spence, H. D. M., etc.
The Pulpit Commentary - 1 Corinthians 6:12-20
The human body and its relation to Christ. Among the objects about him proper for use and enjoyment—those objects which accorded with his nature and position as a redeemed man—was there anything from which he was excluded? "All things are lawful unto me," and, in this sense, liberty and law are identical, the measure of the one being the measure of the other. If law is of God, so is freedom; if the former is the expression of the Divine will and character, so is the latter; and if man is... read more
Spence, H. D. M., etc.
The Pulpit Commentary - 1 Corinthians 6:12-20
Abuse of Christian liberty. It appears that the principle of Christian liberty, "All things are lawful for me," had been greatly abused by some in the Church at Corinth. It was cited in defence of fornication, as well as of eating all kinds of meats. They confounded it with the philosophical maxim that man is the measure for himself; from which they drew the conclusion that the sexual appetite may be gratified in the same indiscriminate way as that of hunger. This pernicious abuse the... read more
Spence, H. D. M., etc.
The Pulpit Commentary - 1 Corinthians 6:13-19
Duties to the body. Christianity concerns itself about man's body as well as about man's soul. Christianity is a religion for man—for a whole man. When considering matters of religion, we are apt to leave the body too much out of account. Our remissness might be corrected if we remembered how large an influence the body has upon the mind and soul. I. CONSIDER WHAT CHRISTIANITY SAYS ABOUT THE BODY . It is: 1. For the Lord. 2. A temple of the Holy Ghost. ... read more
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The Pulpit Commentary - 1 Corinthians 6:17
That is joined unto the Lord. This phrase, indicating the closest possible union, is found in Deuteronomy 10:20 ; 2 Kings 18:6 . Is one spirit. There is a "mystical union," not only "betwixt Christ and his Church," but also between Christ and the holy soul Hence, to St. Paul, spiritual life meant the indwelling of Christ in the heart—the life "in Christ;" so that he could say, "It is no more I that live, but Christ that liveth in me" ( Galatians 2:20 ; Galatians 3:27 ; Colossians... read more
Spence, H. D. M., etc.
The Pulpit Commentary - 1 Corinthians 6:17
Christ and his people are one. It was the wont of the apostle to associate the commonest duties of life with the highest motives drawn from spiritual realities and relations, in dissuading from the sin of impurity, he might have adduced considerations drawn from physical laws or from social conditions; but it is more in harmony with his convictions and habits to appeal to the loftiest principles of the Christian religion. I. THE BOND WHICH UNITES CHRISTIANS TO THEIR LORD... read more
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The Pulpit Commentary - 1 Corinthians 6:18
Flee fornication. In the battle against sensual sins, there is no victory except in absolute flight, for the reason which immediately follows, namely, that these sins have their dwelling in that body which is part of our being, and which yet they tend to destroy. They make a man his own deadliest enemy. Every sin... is without the body. Some have supposed that this cannot apply to gluttony and drunkenness, which they therefore class with fornication; but even in those sins, as in suicide,... read more
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The Pulpit Commentary - 1 Corinthians 6:19
That your body is the temple (or rather, a sanctuary ) of the Holy Ghost. He has already said that the Church is a shrine or sanctuary of the Holy Ghost ( 1 Corinthians 3:16 ); but here for the first time expression is given to one of the deepest and newest truths of Christianity. Three great epochs are marked by the use of the word temple. In the Old Testament it means the material temple, the sign of a localized worship and a separated people; in the Gospels our Lord uses it of... read more
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John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - 1 Corinthians 6:19
Verse 19 19.Know ye not that your body He makes use of two additional arguments, in order to deter us from this filthiness. First, That our bodies are temples of the Spirit; and, secondly, that the Lord has bought us to himself as his property. There is an emphasis implied in the term temple; for as the Spirit of God cannot take up his abode in a place that is profane, we do not give him a habitation otherwise than by consecrating ourselves to him as temples It is a great honor that God confers... read more