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Scott's Reference Library
1 Corinthians 6:12 through 1 Corinthians 6:20 (NIV)
12“Everything is permissible for me”—but not everything is beneficial.
“Everything is permissible for me”—but I will not be mastered by anything.
13“Food for the stomach and the stomach for food”—but God will destroy them
both. The body is not meant for sexual immorality, but for the Lord, and the
Lord for the body. 14By his power God raised the Lord from the dead, and he will
raise us also. 15Do you not know that your bodies are members of Christ himself?
Shall I then take the members of Christ and unite them with a prostitute? Never!
16Do you not know that he who unites himself with a prostitute is one with her
in body? For it is said, “The two will become one flesh.” 17But he who unites
himself with the Lord is one with him in spirit.
18Flee from sexual immorality. All other sins a man commits are outside his
body, but he who sins sexually sins against his own body. 19Do you not know that
your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit, who is in you, whom you have received
from God? You are not your own; 20you were bought at a price. Therefore honor
God with your body.
Matthew Henry’s Concise Commentary on the Whole Bible
VERSES 12-20
Some among the Corinthians seem to have been ready to say, All things are lawful
for me. This dangerous conceit St. Paul opposes. There is a liberty wherewith
Christ has made us free, in which we must stand fast. But surely a Christian
would never put himself into the power of any bodily appetite. The body is for
the Lord; is to be an instrument of righteousness to holiness, therefore is
never to be made an instrument of sin. It is an honour to the body, that Jesus
Christ was raised from the dead; and it will be an honour to our bodies, that
they will be raised. The hope of a resurrection to glory, should keep Christians
from dishonouring their bodies by fleshly lusts. And if the soul be united to
Christ by faith, the whole man is become a member of his spiritual body. Other
vices may be conquered in fight; that here cautioned against, only by flight.
And vast multitudes are cut off by this vice in its various forms and
consequences. Its effects fall not only directly upon the body, but often upon
the mind. Our bodies have been redeemed from deserved condemnation and hopeless
slavery by the atoning sacrifice of Christ. We are to be clean, as vessels
fitted for our Master’s use. Being united to Christ as one spirit, and bought
with a price of unspeakable value, the believer should consider himself as
wholly the Lord’s, by the strongest ties. May we make it our business, to the
latest day and hour of our lives, to glorify God with our bodies, and with our
spirits which are his.