1 Corinthians 6:20 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God's. ”

1 Corinthians 6:20 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

For ye are bought - Ye Christians are purchaseD; and by right of purchase should therefore be employed as he directs. This doctrine is often taught in the New Testament, and the argument is often...
1 Corinthians 6:20 - 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...
1 Corinthians 6:20 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

are . were. bought . Greek. agorazo. Occurs thirty-one times, always translated "buy", save Revelation 5:9 ; Revelation 14:3 ; Revelation 14:4 . glorify . Greek. doxazo. See p. 1511. an...
1 Corinthians 6:20 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

20. Glorify God From this conclusion, it appears that the Corinthians took a liberty to themselves in outward things, that it was necessary to restrain and bridle. The reproof therefore is t...
1 Corinthians 6:20 - Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

DISCOURSE: 1959 THE DUTY OF DEVOTING OURSELVES TO GOD 1 Corinthians 6:19-20 . What? know ye not that ……ye are not your own? for ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, an...
1 Corinthians 6:20 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God's. Ye are bought with a price - As the slave who is purchased by his master for a sum of money is...
1 Corinthians 6:20 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God's. Bought with a [great] price - therefore Christ's blood is strictly a ransom paid to Go...
1 Corinthians 6:20 - 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;...
1 Corinthians 6:20 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

What? know ye not...? — These verses read better rendered thus: Do you not know that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you? Which you have from God, and you are not your own. F...
1 Corinthians 6:20 - 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...
1 Corinthians 6:20 - 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...
1 Corinthians 6:20 - 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...
1 Corinthians 6:20 - 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...
1 Corinthians 6:20 - James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary

DIVINE OWNERSHIP ‘Ye are not your own.’ 1 Corinthians 6:19 As Christians we are no longer our own. Jesus has acquired by His blood all rights of ownership over us. This is the great truth I...
1 Corinthians 6:20 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

For ye are bought with a price ,.... Not with gold and silver, but with the precious blood of Christ, as the whole church, and all the elect of God are. This proves them to be the Lord's, not only h...
1 Corinthians 6:20 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God's. Ver. 20. Ye are bought ] Shall I drink the blood of these men? saith David. So, shall I ab...
1 Corinthians 6:20 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Know ye not , &c. As if he had said, There is another view in which the baseness of this crime must appear to you, Christians, in consequence of your relation to that blessed agent, the Spirit o...
1 Corinthians 6:20 - 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...
1 Corinthians 6:20 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Against Fornication. A. D. 57. 12 All things are lawful unto me, but all things are not expe...
1 Corinthians 6:20 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

For ye are bought with a price; what price this is that is here mentioned Peter tells us, both negatively and positively, 1 Peter 1:18,19 : Forasmuh as ye know that ye were not redeemed with co...
1 Corinthians 6:20 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

‘Or do you not know that your body is a sanctuary of the Holy Spirit which is in you, which you have from God, and you are not your own, for you were bought with a price. Therefore glorify God in you...
1 Corinthians 6:20 - 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...
1 Corinthians 6:20 - Scofield Reference Notes

and in your Some authorities end verse with "body."
1 Corinthians 6:20 - Sermon Bible Commentary

1 Corinthians 6:19-20 Note: I. God's consecration of the body. The image of the text is that of a shrine in which a god dwells. The body of a Christian believer holds another tenant than his huma...
1 Corinthians 6:20 - 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...
1 Corinthians 6:20 - 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...
1 Corinthians 6:20 - 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...
1 Corinthians 6:20 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

An earnest warning against immorality:
1 Corinthians 6:20 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

1 Corinthians 10:31 ; 1 Corinthians 7:23 ; 1 Peter 1:18 ; 1 Peter 2:9 ; 2 Peter 2:1 ; Acts 20:28 ; Galatians 3:13 ; Hebrews 9:12 ; Matthew 5:16 ; Philippians 1:20 ; Revelation 5:9 ; Roman...
1 Corinthians 6:20 - 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...
1 Corinthians 6:20 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Glorify God with your body, and your spirit — Yield your bodies and all their members, as well as your souls and all their faculties, as instruments of righteousness to God. Devote and employ all y...

1 Corinthians 6:20 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

1 Corinthians 6:20 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

1 Corinthians 6:20 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

1 Corinthians 6:20 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

1 Corinthians 6:20 - Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

1 Corinthians 6:20 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

1 Corinthians 6:20 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

1 Corinthians 6:20 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

1 Corinthians 6:20 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

1 Corinthians 6:20 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

1 Corinthians 6:20 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

1 Corinthians 6:20 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

1 Corinthians 6:20 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

1 Corinthians 6:20 - James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary

1 Corinthians 6:20 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

1 Corinthians 6:20 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

1 Corinthians 6:20 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

1 Corinthians 6:20 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

1 Corinthians 6:20 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

1 Corinthians 6:20 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

1 Corinthians 6:20 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

1 Corinthians 6:20 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

1 Corinthians 6:20 - Scofield Reference Notes

1 Corinthians 6:20 - Sermon Bible Commentary

1 Corinthians 6:20 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

1 Corinthians 6:20 - The Biblical Illustrator

1 Corinthians 6:20 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

1 Corinthians 6:20 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

1 Corinthians 6:20 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

1 Corinthians 6:20 - Wells of Living Water Commentary

1 Corinthians 6:20 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes