1 Corinthians 6

1 Corinthians 6
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1 Corinthians 7:33-8:4 in Papyrus 15, written in the 3rd century.
Book	First Epistle to the Corinthians
Bible part	New Testament
Order in the Bible part	7
Category	Pauline epistles

1 Corinthians 6 is the sixth chapter of the First Epistle to the Corinthians in the New Testament of the Christian Bible. It is authored by Paul of Tarsus and Sosthenes in Ephesus.^[1][2]

Text

• The original text is written in Koine Greek.
• Some of the most ancient manuscripts containing this chapter are:
  • Codex Vaticanus (AD 325-350)
  • Codex Sinaiticus (AD 330-360)
  • Codex Alexandrinus (ca. AD 400-440)
  • Codex Ephraemi Rescriptus (ca. AD 450)
  • Papyrus 11 (7th century; extant: verses 5-9, 11-18)
• This chapter is divided into 20 verses.

Structure

This chapter can be grouped:

• 1 Corinthians 6:1-11 = Do Not Sue the Brethren
• 1 Corinthians 6:12-20 = Glorify God in Body and Spirit

Verse 9

King James Version

Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind,^[3]

Cross reference: 1 Timothy 1:10

Verse 12

New King James Version

All things are lawful for me, but all things are not helpful. All things are lawful for me, but I will not be brought under the power of any.^[4]

• "helpful" (NKJV) "expedient" (KJV)

Gill comments that "everything is not lawful to be done when the doing of them destroys the peace, comfort, and edification of others; when it stumbles and grieves weak minds, and causes offence to them"; see (1 Corinthians 10:23), so not "expedient" to use this liberty, to grieve a weak brother or to make oneself a "slave to one's appetite".^[5]

Verse 16

New King James Version

Or do you not know that he who is joined to a harlot is one body with her? For “the two,” He says, “shall become one flesh.”^[6]

Cross references: Genesis 2:24

See also

• Holy Spirit
• Other related Bible parts: Genesis 2, Romans 8, 1 Corinthians 5

References

1. Halley, Henry H. Halley's Bible Handbook: an abbreviated Bible commentary. 23rd edition. Zondervan Publishing House. 1962.
2. Holman Illustrated Bible Handbook. Holman Bible Publishers, Nashville, Tennessee. 2012.
3. 1 Corinthians 6:12 (KJV)
4. 1 Corinthians 6:12
5. John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible, - 1 Corinthians 6:12
6. 1 Corinthians 6:16

External links

• 1 Corinthians 6 NIV