1 Corinthians 6:9-20 NIV

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 1 Corinthians 6:15

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 both are redeemed by him, and, in union with him, are members of his body, of his flesh, and of his bones: shall I then take the members of Christ, and make them the members of an harlot? God forbid . Signifying, that it is a most absurd, indecent, abominable, and detestable thing, that the... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 1 Corinthians 6:16

What? know ye not that he which is joined to an harlot ,.... Not in marriage, but in carnal copulation, and unclean embraces, is one body with her for two ("saith he", Adam, or Moses, or God, or the Scripture, or as R. Sol. Jarchi says, the Holy Spirit, Genesis 2:24 ) shall be one flesh ; what is originally said of copulation in lawful marriage, in which man and wife, legally coupled together, become one flesh, is applied to the unlawful copulation of a man with an harlot, by which... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 1 Corinthians 6:17

He that is joined unto the Lord ,.... As every elect person is; his whole person, soul and body, is united to the Lord Jesus Christ, to his whole person, as God-man and Mediator; even as Adam and Eve, whose marriage was a representation of the marriage between Christ and his church, were personally united, and were called by the same name; and as the whole human nature of Christ, consisting of a true body and a reasonable soul, was united to the person of the Son of God; and as appears from... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 1 Corinthians 6:18

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 is without the body not but that other sins are committed by the body, and by the members of it as instruments; they are generally committed by the abuse of other things that are without, and do not belong to the body; and so do not bring that hurt unto and reproach upon the body, as... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 1 Corinthians 6:19

What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost ,.... What is said in 1 Corinthians 3:16 of the saints in general, is here said of their bodies in particular. The Holy Spirit, in regeneration and sanctification, when he begins the good work of grace on a man, takes possession of his whole person, soul and body, and dwells therein as in his temple. So the Jews F15 R. Joseph Albo. apud Pocock. Not. in Pert. Mosis, p. 120, 121. call the body of a righteous man משכן ,... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 1 Corinthians 6:20

For ye are bought with a price ,.... Not with gold and silver, but with the precious blood of Christ, as the whole church, and all the elect of God are. This proves them to be the Lord's, not only his redeemed ones, being ransomed by a price from the bondage of the law, sin, Satan, and the world; but his espoused ones, and which is chiefly designed here; for one way of obtaining and espousing a wife among the Jews was by a price F16 Misn. Kiddushin, c. 1. sect. 1. ; "a woman (they... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - 1 Corinthians 6:9

The unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom - The unrighteous, αδικοι , those who act contrary to right, cannot inherit, for the inheritance is by right. He who is not a child of God has no right to the family inheritance, for that inheritance is for the children. If children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint heirs with Christ, Romans 8:17 . There are here ten classes of transgressors which the apostle excludes from the kingdom of God; and any man who is guilty of any one of the... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - 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 be found over the face of the earth; they preached that sinners might be converted unto God, made saints, and constituted into a Church; and this was the effect as well as the object of their preaching. But ye are washed - Several suppose that the order in which the operations of the grace of God take place in the soul is... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - 1 Corinthians 6:12

All things are lawful unto me - It is likely that some of the Corinthians had pleaded that the offense of the man who had his father's wife, as well as the eating the things offered to idols, was not contrary to the law, as it then stood. To this the apostle answers: Though such a thing be lawful, yet the case of fornication, mentioned 1 Corinthians 5:1 , is not expedient, ου συμφερει - it is not agreeable to propriety, decency, order, and purity. It is contrary to the established usages... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - 1 Corinthians 6:13

Meats for the belly - I suppose that κοιλια means the animal appetite, or propensity to food, etc., and we may conceive the apostle to reason thus: I acknowledge that God has provided different kinds of aliments for the appetite of man, and among others those which are generally offered to idols; and he has adapted the appetite to these aliments, and the aliments to the appetite: but God shall destroy both it and them; none of these is eternal; all these lower appetites and sensations will... read more

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 1 Corinthians 6:15

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 1 Corinthians 6:16

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 1 Corinthians 6:17

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 1 Corinthians 6:18

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 1 Corinthians 6:19

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 1 Corinthians 6:20

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - 1 Corinthians 6:9

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - 1 Corinthians 6:11

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - 1 Corinthians 6:12

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - 1 Corinthians 6:13

Group of Brands