1 Corinthians 6

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1 Corinthians 6 rebukes two ways the Corinthians had let the city's habits into the church. The first is lawsuits: believers were dragging one another before pagan judges, and Paul asks how people who will judge the world and angels cannot settle small disputes themselves, and why they would not rather be wronged. The second is sex: some argued that everything is permissible and the body is indifferent. Paul answers that the body is for the Lord, that a believer's body is a member of Christ and a temple of the Holy Spirit, bought at a price. In between he lists the unrighteous who will not inherit the kingdom and reminds them, "that is what some of you were," but you were washed, sanctified, justified.

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1 Corinthians 6 is about two things the Corinthians were doing exactly as their neighbors did, and Paul's question both times is the same: do you not know who you are? The first is going to court. Believers were suing each other before the city's magistrates, and Paul is astonished. You are going to judge the world; you are going to judge angels; and you cannot find one person among you wise enough to settle a quarrel about money? Even if you could, he says, you have already lost by fighting at all; why not be wronged, why not be cheated, rather than do this in front of unbelievers? Then he lists the kinds of people who will not inherit the kingdom, the immoral and the idolaters and the greedy and the drunkards and the swindlers, and turns the list into grace: that is what some of you were, and you were washed, you were made holy, you were put right, in the name of Jesus and by the Spirit. The second thing is sex. Some Corinthians had a slogan, everything is permissible, and a theory, that the body was as morally neutral as the stomach. Paul grants the slogan and denies the theory. The body is not for immorality but for the Lord, and God, who raised Jesus, will raise it. Your bodies are parts of Christ; shall I take a part of Christ and join it to a prostitute? Run from that, he says, because your body is a temple where the Holy Spirit lives, and you do not own it. You were bought, and the price was high. So honor God with your body.

Mahahalagang sipi

1 Corinthians 6:1-8 1 Corinthians 6:9-11 1 Corinthians 6:12-14 1 Corinthians 6:15-20 Genesis 2:24 1 Corinthians 3:16-17

Historical and literary context

Paul wrote from Ephesus around AD 54 or 55 to a church in Roman Corinth, a commercial city where litigation was a normal way for the well-off to pursue advantage and where the courts favored the wealthy, so the lawsuits were probably rich members suing poorer ones. Corinth's reputation for sexual license was old enough that "to Corinthianize" had meant to fornicate; temple prostitution belongs to the Greek city's legend more than to Paul's day, but ordinary prostitution was legal and unremarkable at dinner parties. The slogans Paul quotes in verses 12 and 13 seem to be the Corinthians' own, perhaps drawn from his teaching on freedom. Jewish communities in the empire settled disputes internally, which is the model Paul assumes.

How the chapter unfolds

Verses 1 to 8 concern lawsuits: the shame of pagan courts, the saints' future judgment of the world and angels, the absence of a wise arbiter, and the better way of accepting wrong. Verses 9 to 11 list those who will not inherit the kingdom and announce the Corinthians' washing, sanctification, and justification. Verses 12 to 14 answer the slogans with the limits of freedom and the body's destiny in resurrection. Verses 15 to 17 argue from union with Christ against union with a prostitute. Verses 18 to 20 command flight from immorality and ground it in the body as the Spirit's temple, bought at a price, to be used for God's glory.

Why this chapter matters

"Your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit" and "you were bought at a price; therefore glorify God with your body" are among the New Testament's most influential statements about the body, the basis of Christian sexual ethics and of the conviction that what one does physically matters to God. "Such were some of you" in verse 11 has been a text of hope for converts of every kind. The passage on lawsuits shaped the church's practice of internal arbitration and the expectation that Christians would rather suffer loss than fight in public. The vice list of verses 9 and 10 is much debated today, especially its terms for same-sex acts, and is central to that discussion.

Interpretive tension to watch

The two Greek words in verse 9 rendered "men who submit to or perform homosexual acts" are rare and disputed, and translations differ sharply; the passage sits at the center of present-day disagreement about sexuality. The prohibition on lawsuits raises the question of whether Christians may ever use civil courts, which most traditions answer by limiting Paul's words to disputes between believers over trivial matters. "Every other sin is outside the body" in verse 18 is hard to square with drunkenness and gluttony, and readers have proposed that Paul is again quoting a Corinthian slogan before correcting it.

Mga tanong para sa kabanatang ito

  • Paul says it would be better to be cheated than to take a fellow believer to court. What would that cost you, and what would it protect?
  • "That is what some of you were." How does remembering what you were change how you treat people who still are?
  • If your body is a temple bought at a price, what does that say about how you use it, rest it, and give it?

Study with context

Use this as a chapter guide, then press deeper into the text itself. The goal is to slow down observation, notice structure, and ask better questions before jumping to conclusions.

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1 Ardisce alcun di voi, quando ha una lite con un altro, chiamarlo in giudizio dinanzi agli ingiusti anziché dinanzi ai santi? 2 Non sapete voi che i santi giudicheranno il mondo? E se il mondo è giudicato da voi, siete voi indegni di giudicar delle cose minime? 3 Non sapete voi che giudicheremo gli angeli? Quanto più possiamo giudicare delle cose di questa vita! 4 Quando dunque avete da giudicar di cose di questa vita, costituitene giudici quelli che sono i meno stimati nella chiesa. 5 Io dico questo per farvi vergogna. Così non v’è egli tra voi neppure un savio che sia capace di pronunziare un giudizio fra un fratello e l’altro? 6 Ma il fratello processa il fratello, e lo fa dinanzi agl’infedeli. 7 Certo è già in ogni modo un vostro difetto l’aver fra voi dei processi. Perché non patite piuttosto qualche torto? Perché non patite piuttosto qualche danno? 8 Invece, siete voi che fate torto e danno; e ciò a dei fratelli. 9 Non sapete voi che gli ingiusti non erederanno il regno di Dio? Non v’illudete; né i fornicatori, né gl’idolatri, né gli adulteri, né gli effeminati, né i sodomiti, 10 né i ladri, né gli avari, né gli ubriachi, né gli oltraggiatori, né i rapaci erederanno il regno di Dio. 11 E tali eravate alcuni; ma siete stati lavati, ma siete stati santificati, ma siete stati giustificati nel nome del Signor Gesù Cristo, e mediante lo Spirito dell’Iddio nostro. 12 Ogni cosa m’è lecita, ma non ogni cosa è utile. Ogni cosa m’è lecita, ma io non mi lascerò dominare da cosa alcuna. 13 Le vivande son per il ventre, e il ventre è per le vivande; ma Iddio distruggerà e queste e quello. Il corpo però non è per la fornicazione, ma è per il Signore, e il Signore è per il corpo; 14 e Dio, come ha risuscitato il Signore, così risusciterà anche noi mediante la sua potenza. 15 Non sapete voi che i vostri corpi sono membra di Cristo? Torrò io dunque le membra di Cristo per farne membra d’una meretrice? Così non sia. 16 Non sapete voi che chi si unisce a una meretrice è un corpo solo con lei? Poiché, dice Iddio, i due diventeranno una sola carne. 17 Ma chi si unisce al Signore è uno spirito solo con lui. 18 Fuggite la fornicazione. Ogni altro peccato che l’uomo commetta è fuori del corpo; ma il fornicatore pecca contro il proprio corpo. 19 E non sapete voi che il vostro corpo è il tempio dello Spirito Santo che è in voi, il quale avete da Dio, e che non appartenete a voi stessi? 20 Poiché foste comprati a prezzo; glorificate dunque Dio nel vostro corpo.

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