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By having a change wrought in thee. 'But ye are washed, but ye are sanctified.' I Cor 6: 2: Whence we are changed, a tenebris ad lucem [from darkness to light], so changed, as if another soul did live in the same body. By this change we are interested in the unchangeable
- Thomas Watson
St Paul, in his second letter to Corinth, spells this out further in the important eighth and ninth chapters, where he urges some of the Christian communities to be generous to others so that they may also have the chance to be generous in return.
- Rowan Williams
Through the proof of this service, they will glorify God for your obedience to the confession of the gospel of Christ. 2 Corinthians 9:13
- Beth Moore
They all ate the same spiritual food, and all drank the same spiritual drink… . But God was not pleased with most of them. 1 Corinthians 10:3—5
- Beth Moore
In Paul's day, writing to Corinthians about God's love was the equivalent of writing a letter on family values to Hollywood today. "Corinthian" was synonymous with immorality. To "play the Corinthian" meant to give oneself to sexual pleasure. A "Corinthian girl" was another word for a prostitute. How could Paul hope to convey an understanding of God's pure love to a city steeped in perversion?
- Joshua Harris
Our revelation is for the sons and daughters of God, realizing now that the greatest manifestation of the Spirit in our lives is love—the kind that holds no record of wrong—without which everything else we do is worthless, as Paul made so plain to the Corinthians. The Spirit of truth comes to show us the Father's love and our union with and in Christ, because only in this awareness can we love as He loves and so show ourselves and the world the love of the Father.
- Ted Dekker
Another thing he speaks of as matter of comfort is, that as he had approved himself to his own conscience, so he had also to the consciences of his hearers, the Corinthians, whom he now wrote to, and that they should approve of him at the day of judgment. 3.
- Jonathan Edwards
As God hath called every man, so let him walke, 1 Cor. 7. 19, 20.
- Jonathan Edwards
Scripture teaches us to contend for the faith (Jude 3) and contextualize to culture (1 Cor. 9:22-23).
- Ed Stetzer