1 CORINTHIANS 6:20 — KING JAMES VERSION 0 0
“For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God’s.”
You were bought at a price. Therefore honor God with your bodies. — The image of redemption as purchase (ēgorasthē = were bought, acquired at cost) recalls the slave-market. Christ paid the price; believers are no longer their own property but purchased possession. The phrase timē (price/honor) creates wordplay: because you were bought at timē, therefore honor (doxazō) God with your bodies. The ethical demand flows directly from redemptive identity: bodies, ransomed and consecrated, belong to God and must glorify him.
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