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Initial Observations
1 Corinthians 6:12-20 (NASB)
12 All things are lawful for me, but not all things are profitable. All things are lawful for me, but I will not be mastered by anything.
13 Food is for the stomach and the stomach is for food, but God will do away with both of them. Yet the body is not for immorality, but for the Lord, and the Lord is for the body.
14 Now God has not only raised the Lord, but will also raise us up through His power.
15 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 never be!
16 Or do you not know that the one who joins himself to a prostitute is one body with her? For He says, "THE TWO SHALL BECOME ONE FLESH."
17 But the one who joins himself to the Lord is one spirit with Him.
18 Flee immorality. Every other sin that a man commits is outside the body, but the immoral man sins against his own body.
19 Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have from God, and that you are not your own?
20 For you have been bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body.
12 All things are lawful for me, but not all things are profitable. All things are lawful for me, but I will not be mastered by anything.
13 Food is for the stomach and the stomach is for food, but God will do away with both of them. Yet the body is not for immorality, but for the Lord, and the Lord is for the body.
14 Now God has not only raised the Lord, but will also raise us up through His power.
15 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 never be!
16 Or do you not know that the one who joins himself to a prostitute is one body with her? For He says, "THE TWO SHALL BECOME ONE FLESH."
17 But the one who joins himself to the Lord is one spirit with Him.
18 Flee immorality. Every other sin that a man commits is outside the body, but the immoral man sins against his own body.
19 Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have from God, and that you are not your own?
20 For you have been bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body.
Author:
- The Apostle Paul
Date written:
- Spring in either 53, 54 or 55 A.D.
Purpose:
- Paul was compelled to write this substantial letter to Church of Corinth (which he helped to found) to answer troubling questions and behaviors that were happening in the Church. Corinth was a major Roman port with a lot of temptations!! There was also a lot of idolatry in Corinth at the time. Paul was determined to set them straight again.
Type of Literature:
- It is a pastoral letter to a trouble Church! NT epistles are called "occasional letters". These are letters written in response to or to address a specific occasion, problem or happening.
Main theme(s) of these verses:
- To avoid sexual sin and immorality as our body is not our own! It was purchased for us by the Sacrifice and Resurrection of Jesus Christ.
Things emphasized
- To avoid sexual sin
- Sexual sin is a sin against our own bodies
- Our body is a sanctuary for the Holy Spirit who resides in us.
- Our bodies are not our own, they were bought for us.
- We should honor our bodies!
- We are to glorify God with our bodies.
Things Repeated
- Avoid sexual sin
- Our body is part of Christ's body (the Church?)
- God's Holy Spirit is in (with) us.
Things True to Life
- The Holy Spirit resides in us, and was given to us by God.
Cause and Effect
- Sexual immorality is a sin against our own bodies.
- Joining with a prostitute (or any sexual encounter for that matter) is a joining of two fleshes into ONE! This is serious.
Textual Context
- In 1 Co 6:11 Paul has just finished telling the Corinthians that even though they lived in sin previously they have been washed and sanctified and justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ. In other words, their conversion had caused them to be made clean through the sacrifice and resurrection of Jesus Christ. And apparently they had begun to lose focus and sin again!
- In 1 Co 7:1-7 (and further) Paul gives his thoughts on marriage as a way with dealing with sexual desire. Of course these discussion can and should lead to another study entirely! But is important to note what is discussed in 1 Co 7 in relation to these verses.
Background Information:
- Bible Background Commentary: Biblical law forbade sex between people who were not married.
Bibliography
- Brand, Chad, Charles Draper, Archie England, ed. Holman Illustrated Bible Dictionary Nashville: Holman Bible Publishers, 2003. WORDsearch CROSS e-book.
- God's Word: Today's Bible Translation That Means What It Says Holiday, FL: Green Key Books, n.d.. WORDsearch CROSS e-book.
- Hanke, Howard A. The Thompson Chain Reference Bible Companion. Indianapolis, IN: B. B. Kirkbride Bible Co., 1997. WORDsearch CROSS e-book.
- – Holman Christian Standard Bible Nashville: Holman Bible, 1999. WORDsearch CROSS e-book.
- Keener, Craig S. The IVP Bible Background Commentary – New Testament. Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press, 1993. WORDsearch CROSS e-book.
- Holy Bible, New American Standard La Habra, CA: The Lockman Foundation, 1995. WORDsearch CROSS e-book.
- The Holy Bible: New King James Version Nashville: Thomas Nelson, 1988. WORDsearch CROSS e-book.
- Pfeiffer, Charles F. and Everett F. Harrison, ed. The Wycliffe Bible Commentary. Chicago: Moody Bible Institute, 1990. WORDsearch CROSS e-book.
- Thompson, Frank Charles. Thompson Chain Reference Bible. Indianapolis, IN: B. B. Kirkbride Bible Co., 1997. WORDsearch CROSS e-book.
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