1 Corinthians 6:15 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ Know ye not that your bodies are the members of Christ? shall I then take the members of Christ, and make them the members of an harlot? God forbid. ”

• 1 Corinthians 6:15 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  Know ye not ... - This is the third argument against licentiousness. It is, that we as Christians are united to Christ (compare the notes at John 15:1 ff); and that it is abominable to take the...

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• 1 Corinthians 6:15 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

  (11) Know ye not that your bodies are the members of Christ? shall I then take the members of Christ, and make [them] the members of an harlot? God forbid. (11) A declaration of the former argument...

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• 1 Corinthians 6:15 - 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 6:15 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  Christ . App-98. God forbid . Greek. me genoito. The eleventh occurance of this expression in Paul's epistles. See Romans 3:4 .

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• 1 Corinthians 6:15 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

  15. Know ye not that our bodies are the members, etc. Here we have an explanation, or, if you prefer it, an amplification of the foregoing statement. For that expression, the body is for th...

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• 1 Corinthians 6:15 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  Know ye not that your bodies are the members of Christ? shall I then take the members of Christ, and make them the members of an harlot? God forbid. Know ye not that your bodies are the members of...

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• 1 Corinthians 6:15 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  Know ye not that your bodies are the members of Christ? shall I then take the members of Christ, and make them the members of an harlot? God forbid. Resuming 1 Corinthians 6:13 , "the body is...

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• 1 Corinthians 6:15 - 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 6:15 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

  Shall I then ...? — Having shown the great dignity which attaches to our bodies as immortal members of Christ, the Apostle asks with indignant emphasis, “Shall I take them out from that high and ho...

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• 1 Corinthians 6:15 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

  Chapter 10 FORNICATION IN remonstrating with the Corinthians for their litigiousness, Paul was forcibly reminded how imperfectly his converts understood the moral requirements of the kingdom of G...

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• 1 Corinthians 6:15 - 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 6:15 - 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 6:15 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

  (15) Know ye not that your bodies are the members of Christ? shall I then take the members of Christ, and make them the members of a harlot? God forbid. (16) What? know ye not that he which is joined...

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• 1 Corinthians 6:15 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  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; an...

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• 1 Corinthians 6:15 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  Know ye not that your bodies are the members of Christ? shall I then take the members of Christ, and make them the members of an harlot? God forbid. Ver. 15. Shall I then take ] Scipio, when a...

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• 1 Corinthians 6:15 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  Know ye not that your bodies are the members of Christ Mystically united to him, as well as your souls, if you are his true disciples, as you profess to be. Shall I then take the members of Christ...

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• 1 Corinthians 6:15 - 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 6:15 - 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 6:15 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  Christ is united to the person of the believer, and he is the Head of the church, which is his mystical body; so that the bodies of believers are in a sense the members of Christ, and should be used...

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• 1 Corinthians 6:15 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

  ‘Do you not know that your bodies are members of Christ. Shall I then take away the members of Christ and make them members of a prostitute? May it not be. Or do you not know that he who is joined in...

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• 1 Corinthians 6:15 - 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 6:15 - Scofield Reference Notes

  shall I Paul does not invoke the authority of the seventh commandment, but appeals to the believer's sacredness as a member of Christ.

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• 1 Corinthians 6:15 - 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 6:15 - 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 6:15 - 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 6:15 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  Know ye not that your bodies are the members of Christ? Shall I, then, take the members of Christ and make them the members of an harlot? God forbid!

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• 1 Corinthians 6:15 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  1 Corinthians 11:3 ; 1 Corinthians 12:27 ; 1 Corinthians 6:19 ; Colossians 2:19 ; Ephesians 1:22 ; Ephesians 1:23 ; Ephesians 4:12 ; Ephesians 4:15 ; Ephesians 4:16 ; Ephesians 5:23 ; Ephe...

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• 1 Corinthians 6:15 - 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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