1 CORINTHIANS 6:20 — KING JAMES VERSION 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.
Church Fathers on 1 Corinthians 6:20
“Do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you?” He did not merely say, “of the Spirit,” but, “which is in you;” which was the part of one who also was soothing. And again, explaining himself still further, he added, “which you have from God.” He mentioned Him that gave also, both exalting the hearer and putting him in fear, both by the magnitude of the deposit, and by the munificence of Him that made it. “And you are not your own.” This is not…
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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