1 Corinthians 6:13 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ Meatsa for the belly, and the belly for meats: but God shall destroy both it and them. Now the body is not for fornication, but for the Lord; and the Lord for the body. ”

• 1 Corinthians 6:13 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  Meats for the belly ... - This has every appearance of being an adage or proverb. Its meaning is plain. “God has made us with appetites for food; and he has made food adapted to such appetites, a...

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• 1 Corinthians 6:13 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

  (10) Meats for the belly, and the belly for meats: but God shall destroy both it and them. Now the body [is] not for fornication, but for the Lord; and the Lord for the body. (10) Secondly, because...

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• 1 Corinthians 6:13 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

  Impurity is no True Expression of Christian Freedom, but Incompatible with the Believer's Union with Christ. The special case of incest and the warnings against impurity in the last section ( 1 Cor...

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• 1 Corinthians 6:13 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  destroy . bring to nought. Greek. katargeo. See Romans 3:3 .

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• 1 Corinthians 6:13 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

  13. Meats for the belly, and the belly for meats Here he shows what use ought to be made of outward things — for the necessity of the present life, which passes away quickly as a shadow, agr...

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• 1 Corinthians 6:13 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  Meats for the belly, and the belly for meats: but God shall destroy both it and them. Now the body is not for fornication, but for the Lord; and the Lord for the body. Meats for the belly - I suppo...

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• 1 Corinthians 6:13 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  Meats for the belly, and the belly for meats: but God shall destroy both it and them. Now the body is not for fornication, but for the Lord; and the Lord for the body. The argument from the in...

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• 1 Corinthians 6:13 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

  (c) 6:1-11. Christians and Litigation St. Paul reproves the Corinthians for referring their disputes about ordinary affairs to heathen judges. The subject was suggested by rumours he had heard;...

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• 1 Corinthians 6:13 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

  Meats for the belly. — The Apostle proceeds now to show that the question of eating meats offered to idols does come into that catalogue of indifferent things on which an exercise of Christian free...

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• 1 Corinthians 6:13 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

  Chapter 9 ON GOING TO LAW ST. PAUL here gives his judgment on the litigiousness of the Corinthians. The Greeks, in general, were fond of going to law. They were not only quarrelsome, but they see...

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• 1 Corinthians 6:13 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

  Keeping the Body Holy 1 Corinthians 6:12-20 It is interesting to compare 1 Corinthians 6:12 with 1 Corinthians 10:23 . There are four clauses in each verse, three of which are similar, but t...

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• 1 Corinthians 6:13 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

  The apostle now passed to another dereliction. Disputes in the church were being submitted to heathen tribunals. What these matters were we are not told. The teaching of the apostle is clear, and has...

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• 1 Corinthians 6:13 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

  (12) All things are lawful unto me, but all things are not expedient: all things are lawful for me, but I will not be brought under the power of any. (13) Meats for the belly, and the belly for meats...

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• 1 Corinthians 6:13 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  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...

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• 1 Corinthians 6:13 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  Meats for the belly, and the belly for meats: but God shall destroy both it and them. Now the body is not for fornication, but for the Lord; and the Lord for the body. Ver. 13. God shall destro...

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• 1 Corinthians 6:13 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  All things That are indifferent in their own nature, and neither commanded nor forbidden; are lawful unto me Or, as some paraphrase the clause, All things which are lawful for you are lawful for...

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• 1 Corinthians 6:13 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

  In this chapter there is another matter raised in which the Corinthians had not been using proper judgment. No individual is singled out here, but the strong reproof of the apostle is for any who had...

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• 1 Corinthians 6:13 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

  Against Fornication. A. D.  57.       12 All things are lawful unto me, but all things are not expe...

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• 1 Corinthians 6:13 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  The beginning of this verse seemeth to give a great light to our true understanding of the former verse, and maketh it very probable that the apostle spake with reference to the free use of meats and...

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• 1 Corinthians 6:13 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

  ‘Meats for the stomach, and the stomach for meats. But God will bring to nothing both it and them. But the body is not for fornication but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body. And God both raised...

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• 1 Corinthians 6:13 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

  CRITICAL NOTES SECOND MAIN TOPIC.— 1 Corinthians 6:12-20 1 Corinthians 6:12 . Lawful .—Here, and in 1 Corinthians 10:23 . To be put in quotation marks, “All … lawful.” His own words, or some...

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• 1 Corinthians 6:13 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

  1. Dare any of you, having a matter against another, go to law before the unjust, and not before the saints? In those days, the courts of law were utterly unjust. It was all a matter of who coul...

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• 1 Corinthians 6:13 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  1 Corinthians 6:1 . Dare any of you go to law before the unjust? He whose cause is just appeals to equity, but he who does his neighbour wrong is vexatious. In England, our judges, after the cause...

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• 1 Corinthians 6:13 - The Biblical Illustrator

  All things are lawful to me, but all things are not expedient. The lawful and the expedient I. What is lawful for us in life? All things indifferent, i.e. , not evil in themselves. The Christi...

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• 1 Corinthians 6:13 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

  EXPOSITION 1 Corinthians 6:1-46 Litigation before heathen courts forbidden. 1 Corinthians 6:1 Dare any of you? rather, Dare any one of you? It is in St. Paul's view an audacio...

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• 1 Corinthians 6:13 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  The Necessity of Keeping the Body Undefiled. Christian expediency:

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• 1 Corinthians 6:13 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  1 Corinthians 10:3-5 ; 1 Corinthians 3:16 ; 1 Corinthians 6:15 ; 1 Corinthians 6:19 ; 1 Thessalonians 4:3-7 ; 2 Corinthians 11:2 ; 2 Corinthians 5:15 ; Colossians 2:22 ; Colossians 2:23 ; E...

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• 1 Corinthians 6:13 - Wells of Living Water Commentary

  The Indwelling Holy Spirit 1 Corinthians 6:1-20 INTRODUCTORY WORDS The studies in the Epistle to the Corinthians are not written to be shelved, but to be carefully studied, and followed, lest...

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• 1 Corinthians 6:13 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

  As if he had said, I speak this chiefly with regard to meats; (and would to God all Christians would consider it!) particularly with regard to those offered to idols, and those forbidden in the Mos...

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