1 Corinthians 6:11

1 Corinthians 6:11

9 Do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived. ^aNeither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor¹ homosexuals, nor sodomites,

10 nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners will inherit the kingdom of God.

11 And such were ^asome of you. ^bBut you were washed, but you were¹ sanctified, but you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus and by the Spirit of our God.

Glorify God in Body and Spirit

12 ^aAll things are lawful for me, but all things are not¹ helpful. All things are lawful for me, but I will not be brought under the power of² any.

13 ^aFoods for the stomach and the stomach for foods, but God will destroy both it and them. Now the body is not for ^bsexual immorality but ^cfor the Lord, ^dand the Lord for the body.

14 And ^aGod both raised up the Lord and will also raise us up ^bby His power.

15 Do you not know that ^ayour bodies are members of Christ? Shall I then take the members of Christ and make them members of a harlot? Certainly not!

16 Or do you not know that he who is joined to a harlot is one body with her? For ^a“the two,” He says, “shall become one flesh.”

17 ^aBut he who is joined to the Lord is one spirit with Him.

18 ^aFlee sexual immorality. Every sin that a man does is outside the body, but he who commits sexual immorality sins ^bagainst his own body.

19 Or ^ado you not know that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have from God, ^band you are not your own?

20 For ^ayou were bought at a price; therefore glorify God in your body¹ and in your spirit, which are God’s.

Commentaries:

Robertson's Word Pictures (NT)

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And such were some of you (kai tauta tinev hte). A sharp homethrust. Literally, "And these things (tauta, neuter plural) were ye (some of you)." The horror is shown by tauta, but by tinev Paul narrows the picture to some, not all. But that was in the past (hte, imperfect indicative) like Romans 6:17. Thank God the blood of Jesus does cleanse from such sins as these. But do not go back to them.

But ye were washed (apelousasqe). First aorist middle indicative, not passive, of apolouw. Either direct middle, ye washed yourselves, or indirect middle, as in Acts 22:16, ye washed your sins away (force of apo). This was their own voluntary act in baptism which was the outward expression of the previous act of God in cleansing (hgiasqhte, ye were sanctified or cleansed before the baptism) and justified (edikaiwqhte, ye were put right with God before the act of baptism). "These twin conceptions of the Christian state in its beginning appear commonly in the reverse order" (Findlay). The outward expression is usually mentioned before the inward change which precedes it. In this passage the Trinity appear as in the baptismal command in Matthew 28:19.

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