1 CORINTHIANS 6:10 — KING JAMES VERSION 0
“Nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God.”
And that is what some of you were. — The emphatic affirmation brings the catalog home: these sins characterized Corinthian converts before Christ. But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God resets the entire frame. The triple passive verbs (aorist tense) mark definitive, past transformation. Baptism (apelousasthe = were washed) and justification now establish new identity; these vices should be foreign to the redeemed.
Church Fathers on 1 Corinthians 6:10
“Nay, you yourselves do wrong, and defraud, and that your brethren.” Again, it is a twofold crime, perhaps even threefold or fourfold. One, not to know how to bear being wronged. Another, actually to do wrong. A third, to commit the settlement of these matters even unto the unjust. And yet a fourth, that it should be so done to a brother. For men's offenses are not judged by the same rule, when they are committed against any chance person, and towards one's own member. For…
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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