are. were.
bought. See 1 Corinthians 6:20.
Ye are bought with a price - Though you are slaves to people, yet you have been purchased for God by the blood of His Son; see the note at 1 Cor...
(14) Ye are bought with a price; be not ye the servants of men. (14) He shows the reason of the unlikeness, because he that desired to be circumcise...
He now passes on to special classes. First, those who are unmarried or have lost their partners. It would be best for them to follow Paul's example a...
23. Yea are bought with a price We had these words in the preceding chapter, ( 1 Corinthians 6:20 ,) but for a different purpose. As to the...
Ye are bought with a price; be not ye the servants of men. Ye are bought with a price - As truly as your bodies have become the property of your mast...
Ye are bought with a price— Slaves were bought and sold in the market, as cattle are, and the laws of the Roman Empire considered them as the pro...
Ye are bought with a price; be not ye the servants of men. Be (become) not ye. Paul changes from "thou" ( 1 Corinthians 7:21 ) to "ye." YE AL...
(a) Answer to Questions about Marriage The Corinthians had in their letter ( 1 Corinthians 7:1 ) asked St. Paul's opinion on several points conn...
Bought with a price ] cp. 1 Corinthians 6:20 . Servants ] (RV 'bondservants') of men ] i.e. slavishly yielding to their desires; slaves to custom...
Ye are bought with a price... — Better, You were bought with a price therefore become not slaves of men. This carries on the idea of freedmen of...
Chapter 11 MARRIAGE THERE are two preliminary considerations which throw some light on this much-contested passage. First, Paul had to speak abou...
Serve God in Your Calling 1 Corinthians 7:15-24 There was much unsettlement in regard to marriage in the church at Corinth. An unnatural asceti...
Certain difficulties had arisen in the Corinthian Church concerning which they had sent inquiries to Paul. He now answers their questions. These answ...
(18) Is any man called being circumcised? let him not become uncircumcised. Is any called in uncircumcision? let him not be circumcised. (19) Circumc...
Ye are bought with a price ,.... Some read these words interrogatively, as 1 Corinthians 7:18 , "are ye bought with a price?" and suppose them dire...
Ye are bought with a price; be not ye the servants of men. Ver. 23. Ye are bought with a price ] The redeemed among the Romans were to addict the...
Let every man abide wherein he was called Affect not to change without the clear and evident leadings of Providence, as there is generally greater...
Those things in Chapter s 5 and 6, which were of such serious importance as demanding correction, had evidently not even been questions in the minds...
Christian Contentment. A. D. 57. 17 But as...
What price we are bought with, we heard, 1 Corinthians 6:20 : the apostle there pressed it upon us as our duty to glorify God with our bodies...
Christians Need Not Feel Compelled to Leave the State in Which They Were When They Were Called (7:17-24). Paul now stresses that from a spiritual...
‘You were bought with a price. Do not be the bondservants of men.' Taken literally this would contradict what he has said above. But he does not int...
CRITICAL NOTES A. 1. Observe: With this chapter commences a new section of the Epistle; the topics, and perhaps their order, suggested by a le...
1 Corinthians 7:23 I. St. Paul's words, "Be not ye the slaves of men," have an important bearing upon the exercise of the understanding. "Bought w...
It is evident from the tenor of this chapter that the Corinthians had written to the apostle for advice on the subject of marriage and its obligation...
But as God hath distributed to every man, as the Lord hath called every one, so let him walk. Every Christian at his post 1. God appoints every...
EXPOSITION 1 Corinthians 7:1-46 Answers to the inquiries of the Corinthians respecting marriage. 1 Corinthians 7:1-46 The lawful...
A general application of these truths:
Ye are bought with a price; be not ye the servants of men.
1 Corinthians 6:20 ; 1 Peter 1:18 ; 1 Peter 1:19 ; 1 Peter 3:18 ; Acts 20:28 ; Galatians 2:4 ; Leviticus 25:42 ; Matthew 23:8-11 ; Revelatio...
Ye are bought with a price — Ye belong to God; therefore, where it can be avoided, do not become the bondslaves of men — Which may expose you to ma...
23 Ye are bought with a price; be not ye the servants of men.