1 Corinthians 6:9-11

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - 1 Corinthians 6:9-11

Here he takes occasion to warn them against many heinous evils, to which they had been formerly addicted. I. He puts it to them as a plain truth, of which they could not be ignorant, that such sinners should not inherit the kingdom of God. The meanest among them must know thus much, that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God (1 Cor. 6:9), shall not be owned as true members of his church on earth, nor admitted as glorious members of the church in heaven. All unrighteousness is... read more

William Barclay

William Barclay's Daily Study Bible - 1 Corinthians 6:9-11

6:9-11 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 rapacious men, nor drunkards, nor slanderers, nor robbers shall inherit the Kingdom of God--and such were some of you. But you have been washed; you have been consecrated; you have been put into a right relationship with God through the name of our Lord Jesus Christ and through the Spirit of... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 1 Corinthians 6:9

Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God ?.... A way of speaking much like that in the Talmud, הוי יודע שהעולם הבא אינו עשוי אלא לצדיקים "know thou, that the world to come is not made but for the righteous?" F8 T. Bab. Yebamot, fol 47. 1. Without a righteousness there will be no entrance into the world of bliss and happiness hereafter; and this must be a better righteousness than what a sinful creature is capable of working out, and no other... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 1 Corinthians 6:10

Nor thieves ,.... Who take away another man's property, secret or openly, by fraud or force. Nor covetous : insatiable, in the lust of uncleanness; or greedy of worldly gain, bent upon increasing their substance at any rate, by circumvention, fraud, and deceit; and do not use the things of this life as they should, for their own good, and that of others. Nor drunkards who are strong to drink strong liquors; who give up themselves thereunto: who sit down on purpose to intoxicate... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 1 Corinthians 6:11

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 committed by one or another of them. The Corinthians were a people very much given to uncleanness and luxury, without measure F9 Aelian. Hist. var. l. 1. c. 19. , which was the ruin of their state: and among these wicked people God had some chosen vessels of salvation; who are put in mind... 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

John Calvin

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - 1 Corinthians 6:9

Verse 9 9.Know ye not, etc. By unrighteousness here you may understand what is opposed to strict integrity. Theunrighteous, then, that is, those who inflict injury on their brethren, who defraud or circumvent others, who, in short, are intent upon their own advantage at the expense of injuring others, will not inherit the kingdom of God That by the unrighteous here, as for example adulterers, and thieves and covetous, and revilers, he means those who do not repent of their sins, but obstinately... read more

John Calvin

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - 1 Corinthians 6:11

Verse 11 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 term to be redundant, in accordance with the practice of the Greeks, who frequently make use of it for the sake of ornament, not by way of restriction. We must not, however, understand him as putting all in one bundle, so as to attribute all these vices to each of them, but he simply means to... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - 1 Corinthians 6:1-11

Litigation before heathen courts forbidden. read more

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