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Daily Devotionals
Day by Day Devotional - Year 4 of 5
1 Corinthians 6:1-20
Another disorder existed at Corinth. Brothers had gone so far as to take their disputes before the courts of this world. A truly sad witness! The apostle rebukes the one who has not accepted injustice as much as the one who has committed it. Then he considers the main vices rife among the heathen and solemnly declares that it is not possible to be saved while continuing to live in sin.
That is what some of you were like, he concludes. But now, this is what God has done: you have been washed, sanctified, justified! Is it so that you might be defiled once more?
Apart from sin, nothing is forbidden to me . . . but everything can enslave me if I am not watchful (v. 12). "Evil is not in the things themselves, but in the love for those things which is in the heart" (J.N.D.).
Vv. 13-20 concern purity. Let them be very particularly engraved in the heart of the Christian young man who is more exposed to fleshly temptations. His own body no longer belongs to him. God has purchased it – let us never forget at what price! – in order to make of it for Christ a member of His body (v. 15) and for the Holy Spirit a temple which must be holy as is its divine Host (v. 19).
