For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God’s.
Paul shows that the Corinthians were taking too much liberty in things outward, as if the body were not subject to God as the soul is. But both are His; both were redeemed; both must be devoted to His glory. The body is the Lord's temple, and we discharge our duty to Him only when we devote ourselves wholly to His service in outward life as well as inward.
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Some Corinthians thought fornication as lawful as eating meat, since their pagan city did not condemn it. But lawfulness is not the measure; fitness is. Consider your profession, your character, your hope, and beware lest you fall into bondage to appetite while claiming freedom in Christ.
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Commenting on 1 Corinthians 6:12-20
Christ purchased you with His blood, not as a slave merely but as a spouse. He betrothed you to Himself in the covenant of grace; His blood-price declared and confirmed His right to you. This lays you under the greatest obligation to preserve an inviolable chastity to Him and to love and honor Him.
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