1 Corinthians 6:20

for you have been bought with a price: indeed glorify God in your body.

1902 William Baxter Godbey NT

In The King James Version

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

In Context

19Do you not know that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have from God? and you are not your own;

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Cross References

Acts 20:28Take heed to yourselves, and all the flock, over which the Holy Ghost has placed you shepherds, to shepherdise the church of God, which He bought with His own blood.

Romans 12:1I exhort you, therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that you present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, your reasonable service:

1 Corinthians 10:31Then whether you eat, or whether you drink, or what you do, do all things to the glory of God.

Philippians 1:20according to my earnest expectation and hope, that I shall be ashamed in nothing, but with all boldness, as always, even now Christ will be magnified in my body, whether by life, or by death.

1 Peter 1:18knowing that you have been redeemed from your depraved character transmitted from your ancestors, not by corruptible things, silver or gold,

2 Peter 2:1However there were indeed false prophets among the people, as there will also be false teachers among you, whosoever shall bring in destructive heresies, even denying the Lord who bought them, bringing on themselves swift destruction.

Matthew Henry on 1 Corinthians 6:13-20

Against Fornication. ( a. d. 57.) 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. 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. 14 And God hath both raised up the Lord, and will also raise up us by his own power. 15 Know ye not that your bodies are the members of Christ? shall I then take the… Read the whole commentary →

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