1 Corinthians 6:9-11 NIV

The Pulpit Commentary - 1 Corinthians 6:1-11

Civil relations and Church membership; litigation before heathen courts. The chapter opens abruptly. "Dare any of you"—a strong expression of disapproval—"having a matter against another, go to law before the unjust?" Judaism had taught the Jews not to go before Gentile judges with a lawsuit against their brethren; the Romans had accorded to the Jews the right to settle their disputes among themselves, and Christians at that time might avail themselves of this rule (Lunge). But St. Paul,... read more

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The Pulpit Commentary - 1 Corinthians 6:9

Know ye not; rather, Or know ye not, as before. Are you defying God, or does your sin arise from mere ignorance? The unrighteous; better, that wrong doers, the verb being the same as "ye do wrong" in 1 Corinthians 6:8 . Perhaps the Corinthians thought that they would be saved by the mere fact of having been admitted into God's kingdom (the Christian Church in all its highest privileges) by baptism. St. Paul here lays down, as distinctly as St. James does, that faith without works is... read more

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The Pulpit Commentary - 1 Corinthians 6:9

Inheriting the kingdom. "Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God?" The phrases "kingdom of heaven," "kingdom of God," are familiar enough to the New Testament reader, as synonyms for the new, the Christian dispensation. The apostles seem to use the term for a kingdom which, they conceive, will be set up at Christ's second coming and the "restitution of all things." There is an important sense in which we are to recognize that the "kingdom" is actually now... read more

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The Pulpit Commentary - 1 Corinthians 6:9-11

Genuine reformation. "Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind, nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God. And such were some of you: but ye are washed, but ye are sanctified, but ye are justified in the Name of the Lord Jesus, and by the Spirit of our God." Reformation of... read more

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The Pulpit Commentary - 1 Corinthians 6:9-11

Our inheritance in peril I. WHAT OUR INHERITANCE IS . "The kingdom of God:" present, but chiefly future. Of which Peter speaks ( 2 Peter 3:13 ), "We, according to his promise, look for new heavens and a new earth, wherein dwelleth righteousness." Heaven, and the heavenly life, and the heavenly joys; the "rest that remaineth for the people of God;" the nightless, sinless, curseless, painless land; the "many mansions" of the Father's house; the eternal home, where we "shall see... read more

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The Pulpit Commentary - 1 Corinthians 6:9-11

Before and after: two pictures. The apostle reminds them that wrong doing of every kind excludes from the kingdom of God, and that consequently their quarrels and litigation are bringing them into danger. They are forgetting the meaning of their conversion. I. OUR ORIGINAL CONDITION . Though this dark picture is meant to represent sinners at Corinth, its general features are universally applicable. 1. Sin is various, yet one. The branches are many, but they grow out of the... read more

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The Pulpit Commentary - 1 Corinthians 6:10

Nor thieves, etc. (see Revelation 22:15 ). read more

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The Pulpit Commentary - 1 Corinthians 6:11

And such were some of you; literally, and these things some of you were. As Gentiles, many of them had been "dead in trespasses and sins" ( Ephesians 2:1 ). (For a similar contrast of the change wrought by the Spirit of God, see Titus 3:3-7 .) But ye are washed . The voice and tense in the original differ from those of the following words. This cannot be accidental. It is better, therefore, to render, But ye washed away your sins; i.e. ye, by your baptism, washed away those stains... read more

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The Pulpit Commentary - 1 Corinthians 6:11

Past, present, and future. In the two preceding verses the apostle has described, in terse, plain terms, the awful vices to which the heathen inhabitants of Corinth were addicted. To his enlightened mind the kingdom of Satan and the kingdom of God were diametrically opposed; and the test by which Paul judged them was the test of moral character—a test which the reason and conscience cannot but approve. The apostle knew from what a slough some of his Corinthian converts had been delivered,... read more

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The Pulpit Commentary - 1 Corinthians 6:11

Great sinners saved. It has been alleged that the early Christians were gathered from the mere rabble and offscourings of the ancient world. Gibbon remarks, with his usual sneer, that "the missionaries of the gospel, after the example of their Divine Master, disdained not the society of men, and especially of women, oppressed by the consciousness and very often by the effects of their vices." But it is not the fact, and it is not fair to insinuate, that the Church was formed from the mire... read more

The Pulpit Commentary - 1 Corinthians 6:1-11

The Pulpit Commentary - 1 Corinthians 6:9

The Pulpit Commentary - 1 Corinthians 6:9

The Pulpit Commentary - 1 Corinthians 6:9-11

The Pulpit Commentary - 1 Corinthians 6:9-11

The Pulpit Commentary - 1 Corinthians 6:9-11

The Pulpit Commentary - 1 Corinthians 6:10

The Pulpit Commentary - 1 Corinthians 6:11

The Pulpit Commentary - 1 Corinthians 6:11

The Pulpit Commentary - 1 Corinthians 6:11

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