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

Bible Comments

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 God's justice, by the love of God in Christ, for our redemption (Matthew 20:28; Acts 20:28; Galatians 3:13; Hebrews 9:12; 1 Peter 1:18-19; 2 Peter 2:1; Revelation 5:9). While He thus took off our obligation to punishment, He laid upon us an obligation to obedience (1 Corinthians 7:22-23; Romans 14:9). If we accept Him as our Prophet to reveal God to us, and our Priest to atone for us, we must also accept Him as our King to rule over us as wholly His (Isaiah 26:13).

In your body - as "in" a temple (cf. John 13:32; Romans 12:1; Philippians 1:20).

And in your spirit [so 'Aleph (')], which are God's - not in A B C Delta G f g, Vulgate. Not needed, as the context refers mainly to the "body" (1 Corinthians 6:16; 1 Corinthians 6:18-19). The "spirit" is incidentally mentioned, 1 Corinthians 6:17, which gave rise to the interpolation.

1 Corinthians 6:20

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