1 Coríntios 6
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1 Coríntios 6:1
The Corinthians were wrong in two ways. First, they were unfaithful, and second, they were expounding God's laws with a show of respect but in reality attributing their authority to idols. — COMMENTARY ON PAUL'S EPISTLES
1 Coríntios 6:2
The saints will judge this world because the unbelief of the world will be condemned by the example of their faith. — COMMENTARY ON PAUL'S EPISTLES
1 Coríntios 6:3
Angels are to be judged by us in the same way as the world is to be judged. — COMMENTARY ON PAUL'S EPISTLES
1 Coríntios 6:5
Paul meant that they were so unmanageable and thoughtless that they might choose inexperienced brothers as judges. There must, he said, be some people in the church wise enough to judge such cases, and they should be allowed to do so. He said this, incidentally, because at that time there was no official leader in their church. — COMMENTARY ON PAUL'S EPISTLES
1 Coríntios 6:7
A Christian ought not to engage in litigation at all, but if the matter is too serious to be disregarded he should bring the case to the church, so as not to incur an immediate penalty and personal downfall. — COMMENTARY ON PAUL'S EPISTLES
1 Coríntios 6:8
Paul is rebuking the people whose wrongful behavior has started the quarrels. Not only are they liable to be charged for the fraud which they have committed; they also share in the fault of those who, compelled by their injurious or fraudulent actions, call upon unbelievers to pass judgment. — COMMENTARY ON PAUL'S EPISTLES
1 Coríntios 6:9
Paul indicates that they are not sinning unknowingly, and so it is that much harder to excuse them. — COMMENTARY ON PAUL'S EPISTLES
1 Coríntios 6:10
Paul did not say this because the Corinthians did not know it already. He was rather reawakening their reverence for the divine commandment and bringing them closer to readiness for the kingdom of heaven. — COMMENTARY ON PAUL'S EPISTLES
1 Coríntios 6:11
The Corinthians had received all the benefits of purity in their baptism, which is the foundation of the truth of the gospel. In baptism the believer is washed clean from all sins and is made righteous in the name of the Lord, and through the Spirit of God he is adopted as God's child. With these words, Paul is reminding them how great and how special is the grace which they have received in the true tradition. But afterward, by thinking which is contrary to this baptismal rule of faith, they had stripped themselves of these benefits. For this reason he is trying to bring them back to their original way of thinking, so that they can recover what they had once received. — COMMENTARY ON PAUL'S EPISTLES
1 Coríntios 6:12
By "all things" Paul presumably means those things which are contained in the natural law and which were also lawful for his fellow apostles. It would not refer to the law of Moses, because Moses forbade many things owing to the hardness of heart of an unbelieving and stiff-necked people. — COMMENTARY ON PAUL'S EPISTLES
1 Coríntios 6:13
The body, being dedicated to God, will be rewarded with a spiritual reward for the merit of its ruler, which is the rational soul. — COMMENTARY ON PAUL'S EPISTLES
1 Coríntios 6:16
Paul says this because the person who involves himself in contamination is united with the person with whom he involves himself. Sexual immorality makes them both one, in nature as well as in sin. Commentary on Paul's Epistles.
1 Coríntios 6:17
The Spirit of God is shared between God and human beings when we are united to the Lord. — COMMENTARY ON PAUL'S EPISTLES
1 Coríntios 6:18
If someone hangs himself or kills himself with a dagger, he does not sin against his body but against his soul, on which he inflicts violence. But to fornicate is a sin of the body which touches both the body and the soul. — COMMENTARY ON PAUL'S EPISTLES
1 Coríntios 6:19
Paul said this with the intention that we should keep our bodies uncontaminated, so that the Holy Spirit may dwell in them. — COMMENTARY ON PAUL'S EPISTLES
1 Coríntios 6:20
Someone who has been bought does not have the power to make decisions, but the person who bought him does. And because we were bought for a very high price, we ought to serve our master all the more, so that the offense from which he has bought our release may not turn us back over to death. — COMMENTARY ON PAUL'S EPISTLES