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.

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