Battling Sexual Immoralities in a Relativistic World

1 Corinthians 6:12-20

The Bible Teaching Commentary

Paul J. Bucknell
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Outline of 1 Corinthians
Writing about immoralities | Dangers of immorality
View #1: Subjectivism | View #2: Fixed Standards (1 Cor 6:12-20)
Flee Immorality | Only Two Choices
Bible Study Questions for 1 Corinthians 6:12-20

Introduction of 1 Corinthians 15 | Defending Resurrection (15:12-34)

Purpose

The apostle continues to address difficult situations that have risen in the church. This time is all sorts of sexual immoralities.

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Outline of 1 Corinthians

Creating Purity in an unholy Church

 


Outline of 1 Corinthians

Paul responds to the Corinthians in two ways.

Responding to Reports (1-6)

Personal

Replying to their Letter
(7-16)

Public
1 Corinthians is split up in two large parts.
1 Corinthians 1-6 discuss Paul's response to different reports he had heard about the Corinthian church. They tend to be more touchy topics. 1 Corinthians 7-16 discuss issues that the Corinthians themselves had brought up in some letter mentioned in 7:1. These issues are more what one might think addressed in public: issues about worship, spiritual gifts, and doctrinal controversies.

1 Corinthians 6:9-14

9) Or do you not know that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived; neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor homosexuals,

10) nor thieves, nor the covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor swindlers, shall inherit the kingdom of God.

11) And such were some of you; but you were washed, but you were sanctified, but you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, and in the Spirit of our God.

12) All things are lawful for me, but not all things are profitable. All things are lawful for me, but I will not be mastered by anything.

13) Food is for the stomach, and the stomach is for food; but God will do away with both of them. Yet the body is not for immorality, but for the Lord; and the Lord is for the body.

14) Now God has not only raised the Lord, but will also raise us up through His power.

1 Corinthians 6:15-20

15) Do you not know that your bodies are members of Christ? Shall I then take away the members of Christ and make them members of a harlot? May it never be!

16) Or do you not know that the one who joins himself to a harlot is one body with her?
For He says, "THE TWO WILL BECOME ONE FLESH."

17) But the one who joins himself to the Lord is one spirit with Him.

18) Flee immorality. Every other sin that a man commits is outside the body, but the immoral man sins against his own body.

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

20) For you have been bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body.

 

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