Commentaries:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
The argument drawn from the indifference of meats (1 Corinthians 8:8; Romans 14:14, Romans 14:17; compare Mark 7:18; Colossians 2:20-22) to that of fornication does not hold good. Meats doubtless are indifferent, since both they and the "belly" for which they are created are to be "destroyed" in the future state. But "the body is not (created) for fornication, but for the Lord; and the Lord for the body" (as its Redeemer, who hath Himself assumed the body): "And God hath raised up the Lord, and will also raise up us" (that is our bodies): therefore the "body" is not, like the "belly," after having served a temporary use, to be destroyed: Now "he that committeth fornication, sinneth against his own body" (1 Corinthians 6:18). Therefore fornication is not indifferent, since it is a sin against one's own body, which, like the Lord for whom it is created, is not to be destroyed, but to be raised to eternal existence. Thus Paul gives here the germ of the three subjects handled in subsequent sections: (1) The relation between the sexes. (2) The question of meats offered to idols. (3) The resurrection of the body.
shall destroy--at the Lord's coming to change the natural bodies of believers into spiritual bodies (1 Corinthians 15:44, 1 Corinthians 15:52). There is a real essence underlying the superficial phenomena of the present temporary organization of the body, and this essential germ, when all the particles are scattered, involves the future resurrection of the body incorruptible.
Other commentary entries containing this verse:
1 Corinthians 6:9
1 Corinthians 6:12
1 Corinthians 6:15
1 Corinthians 15:37
2 Corinthians 4:14
Philippians 3:19
Colossians 2:22
Hebrews 13:9
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