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Discover the Arts! Each day a different image from the Literary, Performing, or Visual Arts representing a portion of Scripture plus an explanation with links 2016 September 13
Cicero Denounces Catiline (1889)
Cesare Maccari (1840-1919)
Neoclassicism Style
Palazzo Madama, Rome, Italy
Image Source: Wikimedia
Explanation: In 1 Corinthians 6, Paul rebukes the Corinthians for gong to law with one another before unbelievers. He tells them that they will judge the world and angels, and they are, therefore, capable of judging things that pertain to this life. It would be better for them to take the wrong than to bring it before unbelievers (1-8).
Paul then turns his attention to personal righteousness. He notes that the unrighteous will not inherit God's kingdom. He then gives a long list of the types of people who are excluded from heaven. And he reminds the Corinthians that some of them committed such sins, but they are washed, sanctified, and justified (9-11). He points out that, even though all things are lawful, not everything is "expedient" (advantageous), so he will not be brought under the power of anything. Even though, for instance, the stomach is made for food, and food is made for the stomach, God will destroy both. The body, however, is not meant for sexual immorality; it is meant for the Lord, and the Lord for the body. Unlike the previous example, the body will not be destroyed; God will raise it up, just as he raised up the Lord. Therefore, it is wrong to join one's body to a prostitute, because he becomes one body with her. In a similar way, someone who is joined to the Lord becomes one spirit with him. Therefore, we should flee from sexual immorality because it is a sin against one's own body. Your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit. You are not your own. You are brought with a price. Therefore, you should glorify God in your body (12-20).
[Sermons: William Still. Edward Donnelly. Various. ]
[Illustration: Today's painting gives the flavor, if not the essence, of a court drama in Roman times, such as the court proceedings spoken of by Paul in today's chapter. ]
RESOURCES
[THEMATICALLY AND CHRONOLOGICALLY RELATED SCRIPTURES:
1 Corinthians 6:1-5: Romans 13:1-7; 2 Corinthians 11:30-33; Colossians 4:5-6; Philemon 1:15-20.
1 Corinthians 6:6-8: Romans 1:29-32; Romans 13:11-14; 2 Corinthians 12:19-21; Galatians 5:16-26; Ephesians 4:17-32; Ephesians 5:3-14; Colossians 3:5-11.
1 Corinthians 6:9-13: Romans 6:1-23; Ephesians 2:11-22; 1 Thessalonians 4:1-8. ]
NOTE: The parallels above are based in a very small part on my own research but principally on the following sources:
Fred O Francis and J. Paul Sampley, Pauline Parallels, Second Edition. (Minneapolis, Minnesota: Fortress Press, 1984).
Most of the material on Hebrews is from an online article titled Pauline parallels in Hebrews taken from Charles H. Welch and Stuart Allen Welch, Perfection Or Perdition? An Exposition Of The Epistle To The Hebrews, (London: Berean Publishing Trust, 1973). ]
[ CHRONOLOGY: GENERAL. Patriarchs (Traditional). Judges # 1. Judges # 2. Kings # 1. Kings # 2. Prophets # 1. Prophets # 2. NT # 1. NT # 2. NT # 3. ]
[ MAPS: Maps # 1. Maps # 2. Maps # 3. Maps # 4. Maps # 5. ]
[ COMMENTARIES, ETC: GENERAL: Bible Study Tools; Bible Hub: Study Light; Blue Letter Bible // PSALMS: Monergism: Precept Austin: The Treasury of David; John Gill; John Calvin - Volumes 1, 2, 3, 4, 5]
[ MUSIC: GENERAL: The Cyber Hymnal // PSALMS: Genevan Psalter (Instrumental). VARIOUS ARTISTS: Micha'el Ben David. Sons of Korah. Fernando Ortega. Janet Isaac Morrison. Music of the Bible Revealed - Suzanne Haik-Vantoura. Dr. David Erb. Gregorian Chants. ]
*** For Additional word studies use one of the Greek Interlinear Bibles below. ***
1 Corinthians 6
1. Issues Affecting the Corinthian's Unity (1 Corinthians 1:1 - 1 Corinthians 15:58) - 54 A.D. Philippi
1 Dare any of you, having a matter against another, go to law before the unjust, and not before the saints?
2 Do ye not know that the saints shall judge the world? and if the world shall be judged by you, are ye unworthy to judge the smallest matters?
3 Know ye not that we shall judge angels? how much more things that pertain to this life?
4 If then ye have judgments of things pertaining to this life, set them to judge who are least esteemed in the church.
5 I speak to your shame. Is it so, that there is not a wise man among you? no, not one that shall be able to judge between his brethren?
6 But brother goeth to law with brother, and that before the unbelievers.
7 Now therefore there is utterly a fault among you, because ye go to law one with another. Why do ye not rather take wrong? why do ye not rather suffer yourselves to be defrauded?
8 Nay, ye do wrong, and defraud, and that your brethren.
9 Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind,
10 Nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God.
11 And such were some of you: but ye are washed, but ye are sanctified, but ye are justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and by the Spirit of our God.
12 All things are lawful unto me, but all things are not expedient: all things are lawful for me, but I will not be brought under the power of any.
13 Meats for the belly, and the belly for meats: but God shall destroy both it and them. Now the body is not for fornication, but for the Lord; and the Lord for the body.
14 And God hath both raised up the Lord, and will also raise up us by his own power.
15 Know ye not that your bodies are the members of Christ? shall I then take the members of Christ, and make them the members of an harlot? God forbid [do not let it be].
16 What? know ye not that he which is joined to an harlot is one body? for two, saith he, shall be one flesh.
17 But he that is joined unto the Lord is one spirit.
18 Flee fornication. Every sin that a man doeth is without the body; but he that committeth fornication sinneth against his own body.
19 What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own?
20 For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God's.
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