1 Corinthians 6:20 KJV — MannaFest

1 Corinthians 6:20

For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God’s.

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ASV

for ye were bought with a price: glorify God therefore in your body.

WEB

you were bought at a price. Therefore glorify God with your body.

YLT

for ye were bought with a price; glorify, then, God in your body and in your spirit, which are God's.

DBT

for ye have been bought with a price: glorify now thenGod in your body.

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1 Corinthians — A pastoral letter answering a long list of questions and problems — unity, ethics, worship, and the resurrection — written to a gifted but divided church.

Author: Paul, with Sosthenes (1:1)
Date: c. AD 55, from Ephesus

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1 Corinthians 7:23
Ye are bought with a price; be not ye the servants of men.
Romans 12:1
I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service.
1 Peter 2:9
But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should shew forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvellous light:
1 Peter 1:18
Forasmuch as ye know that ye were not redeemed with corruptible things, as silver and gold, from your vain conversation received by tradition from your fathers;
Psalms 116:12
What shall I render unto the Lord for all his benefits toward me?

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But God is dishonoured when either is defiled by so beastly a sin. Therefore flee fornication, nay, and every sin. Use your bodies for the glory and service of their Lord and Maker.

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

bought with a price--Therefore Christ's blood is strictly a ransom paid to God's justice by the love of God in Christ for our redemption (Mt 20:28; While He thus took off our obligation to punishment, He laid upon us a new obligation to obedience (1Co 7:22, 23).

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown· Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible, 1871reformed

Glorify God with your body, and your spirit - Yield your bodies and all their members, as well as your souls and all their faculties, as instruments of righteousness to God. Devote and employ all ye have, and all ye are, entirely, unreservedly, and forever, to his glory.

John Wesley (NT Notes)· Explanatory Notes upon the Bible, 1765evangelical

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