1 Corinthians 6:13-18 NIV

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - 1 Corinthians 6:12-20

The 1 Cor. 6:12, 13 seem to relate to that early dispute among Christians about the distinction of meats, and yet to be prefatory to the caution that follows against fornication. The connection seems plain enough if we attend to the famous determination of the apostles, Acts 15:19-29, where the prohibition of certain foods was joined with that of fornication. Now some among the Corinthians seem to have imagined that they were as much at liberty in the point of fornication as of meats,... read more

William Barclay

William Barclay's Daily Study Bible - 1 Corinthians 6:12-20

6:12-20 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 stomach was made for foods; but God will obliterate both it and them. The body is not made for fornication but for the Lord, and the Lord is for the body. God raised up the Lord, and by his power he will raise us too. Are you not aware that your bodies are the limbs of Christ? Am I then to... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 1 Corinthians 6:13

Meats for the belly, and the belly for meats ,.... All sort of food is appointed and provided to satisfy the appetite and stomach, to fill the belly, and nourish the body; and the belly, and all the parts through which the food passes, are purposely formed by God for the reception and digestion of the food, for its secretion, chylification, and nutrition by it, and the ejection of the excermentitious parts. But God shall destroy both it and them : at death, and in the grave, when the one... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 1 Corinthians 6:14

And God hath both raised up the Lord ,.... God the Father has raised up from the dead the Lord Jesus Christ, though not exclusive of the Son, who was equally concerned in the resurrection of himself, whereby he demonstrated himself to be the Son of God, truly and properly God. And will also raise up us by his own power ; for the resurrection of the dead, whether of Christ, or of his people, is an act of power, of God's own power, even of his almighty power, and is what the power of a... read more

John Gill

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

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

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - 1 Corinthians 6:14

And God hath both raised up the Lord - He has raised up the human nature of Christ from the grave, as a pledge of our resurrection; and will also raise us up by his own power, that we may dwell with him in glory for ever. read more

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - 1 Corinthians 6:12-20

William Barclay's Daily Study Bible - 1 Corinthians 6:12-20

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 1 Corinthians 6:13

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 1 Corinthians 6:14

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

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

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - 1 Corinthians 6:14

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