1 Corinthians 6

1 Corinthians 6:1

Dare any of you, having a matter against another, go to law before the unjust, and not before the saints?

Dare any of you, having a suit or quarrel against his fellow Christian, go to law before heathen judges, and not before those of his own holy profession?

1 Corinthians 6:2

Do ye not know that the saints shall judge the world? and if the world shall be judged by you, &c.?

Know ye not, that God’s faithful and holy ones, which are his saints here on earth, shall have the honour one day, to be admitted to sit on thrones, in assistance of Christ, to judge the world? and if the world shall be judged by you, &c.?

1 Corinthians 6:3

Know ye not that we shall judge angels? how much more things that pertain to this life?

Know ye not, that we shall sit on judgment upon the very Angels themselves; even upon those evil and apostate spirits, which do now sway so much in the world? how much more should we be thought worthy to pass our judgment upon the trivial and base things, that pertain to this life!

1 Corinthians 6:11

But ye are washed, but ye are sanctified, but ye are justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and by the Spirit of our God.

But ye are now cleansed and purged from these your sins, in that ye are both justified and sanctified: justified, by the power and merits of Christ; sanctified, by the Spirit of our God; applying to you the efficacy of his passion and obedience.

1 Corinthians 6:12

All things are lawful unto me, but all things are not expedient: all things are lawful for me, but I will not be brought under the power of any.

Do not think, that ye may safely take your free scope and liberty in things indifferent: it is true, all things of that nature are lawful to be done, but yet they are not all meet and expedient to be done: we Christians must follow another rule, even of charity also, in the use hereof.

1 Corinthians 6:13

Meats for the belly, and the belly for meats: but God shall destroy both it and them. Now the body is not for fornication, but for the Lord: and the Lord for the body.

It is not for you, to strive about matter of meats: meat is ordained for the filling of the belly, and the belly is ordained to be the receptacle of those meats for the nourishing of the body; but they are, both, of a perishing and transitory condition; not worthy to take up our thoughts, and to be the grounds of contention in God’s Church. But, as for fornication, that is of another rank: let no man think, that, as the belly is for meat, so also the body is for fornication: howsoever that sin hath, in the time of your inconversion, been but of slight account, yet know now, that it is a heinous offence against God; for the body is not to be prostituted to lust, but to be consecrated to the Lord; and the Lord challenges the VOL. IV. A 8 members of the body, to be the propriety of himself, who is their head.

1 Corinthians 6:14

And God hath both raised up the Lord, and will also raise up us by his own power.

And God hath both raised up from the dead the Lord Christ, whose our bodies are; and will also, by his own mighty power, raise up these bodies of ours from corruption and mortality.

1 Corinthians 6:15

Know ye not that your bodies are the members of Christ? shall I then take &c.?

Know ye not, that, by reason of that perfect union which is betwixt Christ and his Church, your bodies are the members of the mystical body of Christ? shall I then take &c.?

1 Corinthians 6:16

What? know ye not that he which is joined to a harlot is one body? for two, saith he, shall be one flesh.

Know ye not, that he, which is joined with a harlot, in an unclean and unlawful society, becomes, as it were, one body? for that, which was spoken of the lawful copulation of man and wife, That they two shall be one flesh, holds also of the corruption and violation of this holy institution of God: here is an impure and sinful unity, contracted in this unlawful and wicked conjunction.

1 Corinthians 6:17

But he that is joined unto the Lord is one spirit.

But he, that cleaves to the Lord with all his heart, and is wholly devoted to his service, is, as it were, one spirit with God: not in essence, but in consent of will; in love; in all those graces, that may make him heavenly and divine.

1 Corinthians 6:18

Flee fornication. Every sin that a man doeth is without the body; but he that committeth fornication sinneth against his own body.

Flee fornication. Every sin of a man, though it defile the committer, yet leaves not a direct blemish or taint upon the body; but rather staineth the soul primarily, and the body only by relation: but he, that commits this sin of fornication, doth directly and immediately sin against his own body, in making it one with a harlot.