1 Corinthians 6:20 Parallel Translations

NASB:

GWT:

You were bought for a price. So bring glory to God in the way you use your body.(GOD'S WORD®)

KJV:

For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God's.

ASV:

for ye were bought with a price: glorify God therefore in your body.

BBE:

For a payment has been made for you: let God be honoured in your body.

DBY:

for ye have been bought with a price: glorify now then God in your body.

ERV:

for ye were bought with a price: glorify God therefore in your body.

WEY:

And you are not your own, for you have been redeemed at infinite cost. Therefore glorify God in your bodies.

WBS:

For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God's.

WEB:

for you were bought with a price. Therefore glorify God in your body and in your spirit, which are God's.

YLT:

for ye were bought with a price; glorify, then, God in your body and in your spirit, which are God's.

1 Corinthians 6:20 Cross References

XREF:

Acts 20:28 "Be on guard for yourselves and for all the flock, among which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers, to shepherd the church of God which He purchased with His own blood.

Romans 12:1 Therefore I urge you, brethren, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies a living and holy sacrifice, acceptable to God, which is your spiritual service of worship.

1 Corinthians 7:23 You were bought with a price; do not become slaves of men.

Philippians 1:20 according to my earnest expectation and hope, that I will not be put to shame in anything, but that with all boldness, Christ will even now, as always, be exalted in my body, whether by life or by death.

1 Peter 1:18 knowing that you were not redeemed with perishable things like silver or gold from your futile way of life inherited from your forefathers,

2 Peter 2:1 But false prophets also arose among the people, just as there will also be false teachers among you, who will secretly introduce destructive heresies, even denying the Master who bought them, bringing swift destruction upon themselves.

Revelation 5:9 And they sang a new song, saying, "Worthy are You to take the book and to break its seals; for You were slain, and purchased for God with Your blood men from every tribe and tongue and people and nation. (NASB ©1995)

Commentaries and Concordances

PNT:

6:20 Ye are bought with a price. Christ paid the price, even his blood. See PNT 1Co 7:23.
Glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God's. Hence, since both body and spirit are God's, both should be used to glorify him. The fact that we are his, purchased, parts of his spiritual temple, makes the obligation imperative to consecrate the body and spirit to his service.

WES:

6:20 Glorify God with your body, and your spirit - Yield your bodies and all their members, as well as your souls and all their faculties, as instruments of righteousness to God. Devote and employ all ye have, and all ye are, entirely, unreservedly, and for ever, to his glory.

MHC:

6:12-20 Some among the Corinthians seem to have been ready to say, All things are lawful for me. This dangerous conceit St. Paul opposes. There is a liberty wherewith Christ has made us free, in which we must stand fast. But surely a Christian would never put himself into the power of any bodily appetite. The body is for the Lord; is to be an instrument of righteousness to holiness, therefore is never to be made an instrument of sin. It is an honour to the body, that Jesus Christ was raised from the dead; and it will be an honour to our bodies, that they will be raised. The hope of a resurrection to glory, should keep Christians from dishonouring their bodies by fleshly lusts. And if the soul be united to Christ by faith, the whole man is become a member of his spiritual body. Other vices may be conquered in fight; that here cautioned against, only by flight. And vast multitudes are cut off by this vice in its various forms and consequences. Its effects fall not only directly upon the body, but often upon the mind. Our bodies have been redeemed from deserved condemnation and hopeless slavery by the atoning sacrifice of Christ. We are to be clean, as vessels fitted for our Master's use. Being united to Christ as one spirit, and bought with a price of unspeakable value, the believer should consider himself as wholly the Lord's, by the strongest ties. May we make it our business, to the latest day and hour of our lives, to glorify God with our bodies, and with our spirits which are his.

CONC:

Bodies Body Bought Cost Glorify God's Honor Honoured Infinite Payment Price Redeemed Spirit

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