the First Week of Lent
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1 Corinthians 6:19
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What: 1 Corinthians 6:15, 1 Corinthians 6:16
your body: 1 Corinthians 3:16, 2 Corinthians 6:16, Ephesians 2:21, Ephesians 2:22, 1 Peter 2:5
and ye: 1 Kings 20:4, 1 Chronicles 29:14, Psalms 12:4, Psalms 100:3, Romans 14:7-9, 2 Corinthians 5:15, Titus 2:14
Reciprocal: Leviticus 26:13 - General Deuteronomy 7:6 - an holy Deuteronomy 26:17 - avouched 1 Kings 6:1 - build Psalms 22:23 - glorify Song of Solomon 4:12 - garden Song of Solomon 7:10 - my Isaiah 40:28 - thou not known Isaiah 43:21 - General Mark 12:17 - and to John 2:21 - temple John 5:23 - all men John 14:17 - but John 14:26 - Holy Ghost Acts 19:2 - We have Romans 6:3 - Know Romans 8:9 - if so be Romans 8:12 - we are Romans 15:16 - being 1 Corinthians 1:13 - Paul 1 Corinthians 3:9 - ye are God's building 1 Corinthians 3:23 - ye 1 Corinthians 6:9 - Know 1 Corinthians 6:13 - but for 2 Corinthians 8:5 - first 2 Corinthians 13:5 - Know 2 Corinthians 13:14 - the communion Philippians 2:1 - if any fellowship 2 Timothy 1:14 - which dwelleth Hebrews 3:6 - whose 1 John 3:24 - dwelleth 1 John 4:13 - General
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that God's sons saw that men's daughters were beautiful, and they took for themselves wives of all that they chose.
That the sons of God saw the daughters of men that they were fair; and they took them wives of all which they chose.
Then the sons of God saw the daughters of humankind, that they were beautiful. And they took for themselves wives from all that they chose.
When the sons of God saw that these girls were beautiful, they married any of them they chose.
the sons of God saw that the daughters of humankind were beautiful. Thus they took wives for themselves from any they chose.
that the sons of God saw that the daughters of men were beautiful and desirable; and they took wives for themselves, whomever they chose and desired.
that the sons of God saw that the daughters of mankind were beautiful; and they took wives for themselves, whomever they chose.
Then the sonnes of God sawe the daughters of men that they were faire, & they tooke them wiues of all that they liked.
that the sons of God saw that the daughters of men were good in appearance; and they took wives for themselves, whomever they chose.
the sons of God saw that the daughters of men were attractive; and they took wives for themselves, whomever they chose.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost,.... What is said in 1 Corinthians 3:16 of the saints in general, is here said of their bodies in particular. The Holy Spirit, in regeneration and sanctification, when he begins the good work of grace on a man, takes possession of his whole person, soul and body, and dwells therein as in his temple. So the Jews o call the body of a righteous man ×ש××, the "habitation" of the Holy Spirit. Now it is most abominably scandalous and shameful that that body, which is the dwelling place of the Holy Spirit, which is sacred to him as a temple, should be defiled by the sin of fornication: it is added,
which is in you, which ye have of God; meaning the Holy Spirit which was in them, as in his temple; which dwelt in their hearts, and influenced their bodies, lives, and conversations; and which they received of God as a wonderful instance of his grace and love to them; that he should be bestowed upon them, to regenerate, renew, and sanctify them, to implant every grace, to make them a fit habitation for God, and meet for the inheritance of the saints in light:
and ye are not your own: their own masters, at their own dispose, to live to their own lusts, or the lusts of men; men have not power over their bodies to abuse them at pleasure by fornication, or such like uncleanness, neither single nor married persons; see 1 Corinthians 7:4 and of all men, not the saints, who are neither their own nor other men's, nor Satan's, but God's; not only by creation, but by choice and covenant; and Christ's by gift, by purchase, and powerful grace, and in a conjugal relation to him; wherefore fornication ill becomes them.
o R. Joseph Albo. apud Pocock. Not. in Pert. Mosis, p. 120, 121.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
What! know ye not ... - This is the fifth argument against this sin. The Holy Spirit dwells in us; our bodies are his temples; and they should not be defiled and polluted by sin; see the note at 1 Corinthians 3:16-17. As this Spirit is in us, and as it is given us by God, we ought not to dishonor the gift and the giver by pollution and vice.
And ye are not your own - This is the sixth argument which Paul uses. We are purchased; we belong to God; we are his by redemption; by a precious price paid; and we are bound, therefore, to devote ourselves, body, soul, and spirit, as he directs, to the glory of his name, not to the gratification of the flesh; see the note at Romans 14:7-8.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse 19. Your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost — What an astonishing saying is this! As truly as the living God dwelt in the Mosaic tabernacle, and in the temple of Solomon, so truly does the Holy Ghost dwell in the souls of genuine Christians; and as the temple and all its utensils were holy, separated from all common and profane uses, and dedicated alone to the service of God, so the bodies of genuine Christians are holy, and all their members should be employed in the service of God alone.
And ye are not your own? — Ye have no right over yourselves, to dispose either of your body, or any of its members, as you may think proper or lawful; you are bound to God, and to him you are accountable.
