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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1 Corinthians 6:18-20
Jamieson, Fausset & Brown (1871) (public domain).
bought with a price--Therefore Christ's blood is strictly a ransom paid to God's justice by the love of God in Christ for our redemption (Mat 20:28; Act 20:28; Gal 3:13; Heb 9:12; Pe1 1:18-19; Pe2 2:1; Rev 5:9). While He thus took off our obligation to punishment, He laid upon us a new obligation to obedience (Co1 7:22-23). If we accept Him as our Prophet to reveal God to us, and our Priest to atone for us, we must also accept Him as our King to rule over us as wholly His, presenting every token of our fealty (Isa 26:13). in your body--as "in" a temple (compare Joh 13:32; Rom 12:1; Phi 1:20).
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Ye are bought with a price; be not ye the servants of men.
I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service.
But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should shew forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvellous light:
Forasmuch as ye know that ye were not redeemed with corruptible things, as silver and gold, from your vain conversation received by tradition from your fathers;
Neither by the blood of goats and calves, but by his own blood he entered in once into the holy place, having obtained eternal redemption for us.
According to my earnest expectation and my hope, that in nothing I shall be ashamed, but that with all boldness, as always, so now also Christ shall be magnified in my body, whether it be by life, or by death.
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