1 CORINTHIANS CHAPTER SIX

OBSERVATION STAGE

TABLE OF CONTENTS

The purpose of the observation stage is to maintain focus on the text at hand within the normative rules of language, context and logic  which limits the observer to the content offered by the letter of 1 Corinthians especially the previous chapters. This will serve to avoid going on unnecessary tangents elsewhere; and more importantly, it will provide the framework for a proper and objective comparison with passages located elsewhere in Scripture utilizing the same normative rules of reading / interpretation.

Remember that something elsewhere may be true, but in the text at hand it may not be in view.

Manuscript Evidence from The New Testament And Translation Commentary, Philip W. Comfort, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc., Carol Stream, Ill.

[(1 Cor 5:9-13) Commentary On 1 Cor 5:9-13]:

I) [1 Cor 6:1-20]:

A) [(1 Cor 5:12-6:1) Commentary On 1 Cor 6:1]:

B) [(1 Cor 6:2-8) Commentary On 1 Cor 6:2-8]:

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LET EVERY SOUL = EVERY PERSON BE SUBJECT TO GOVERNING AUTHORITIES. SINCE ALL AUTHORITIES ARE APPOINTED OVER MEN BY GOD ALONE, THEN WHOEVER RESISTS AUTHORITY RESISTS THE ORDINANCE / THE AUTHORITY OF GOD HIMSELF AND BRINGS GOD'S JUDGMENT UPON HIMSELF

INDIVIDUALS WHO DO RIGHT BY SUBMITTING TO THE AUTHORITY OF THEIR RULERS WITH A GODLY CONSCIENCE - FREE FROM A MENTAL ATTITUDE OF REBELLIOUSNESS - (1) ARE PLACED UNDER THE LORD'S PROTECTION, (2) ARE IN A POSITION TO BE FREE FROM FEARING THOSE IN AUTHORITY AND (3) WILL BE COMMENDED BY THEM

RULERS HOLD NO TERROR FOR SUBMISSIVE INDIVIDUALS BUT FOR THOSE WHO DO EVIL BY RESISTING THEIR AUTHORITY. SINCE RULERS ARE GOD'S SERVANTS WHO BEAR THE SWORD AS AVENGERS TO EXECUTE GOD'S WRATH ON THOSE WHO PRACTICE EVIL, THEN ONE MUST BE SUBJECT TO ONES RULERS NOT ONLY BECAUSE OF THE POTENTIAL OF GOD'S WRATH BUT ALSO BECAUSE OF THE CONSCIENCE GOD HAS PROVIDED WITHIN THEM

BELIEVERS ARE ENDOWED BY GOD WITH A CONSCIENCE: A CONSCIOUS UNDERSTANDING AND MENTAL IMPETUS TO CHOOSE TO OBEY GOD - TO CONSCIOUSLY ACKNOWLEDGE AND SUBMIT TO THE LORD'S DESIGNATED GOVERNMENTAL AUTHORITY OVER THEM

PEOPLE RECEIVE FROM GOD THE KIND OF GOVERNMENT THAT THEY DESERVE - THAT REFLECTS THEIR CHARACTER - THAT MIRRORS THEIR RESPONSE TO THEIR GOD GIVEN CONSCIENCE. IN ORDER TO BE BLESSED BY GOD WITH A GODLY RULING AUTHORITY, THE PEOPLES' ACTIONS AND RESPONSES TO THEIR CONSCIENCES MUST LARGELY BE GODLY AND FREE FROM REFLECTING AN UNWILLINGNESS TO SUBMIT TO GOVERNMENTAL RULERS EVEN WHEN THE RULERS ARE EVIL, INEPT OR CORRUPT

GOD IS A HOLY AND RIGHTEOUS GOD WHO DOES NOT CONTRADICT HIMSELF BY COMMANDING RULERS OR BELIEVERS TO ISSUE OR OBEY UNRIGHTEOUS COMMANDS RESPECTIVELY. SO THE BELIEVER IS TO REFUSE TO OBEY COMMANDS THAT VIOLATE THE HOLINESS OF GOD IN A MANNER WHICH STILL RESPECTS GOVERNMENTAL AUTHORITY

[Compare Ro 6:13 ]:

[Compare Ro 8:28]:

1) [Compare Ro 13:1 ]:

2) [(1 Cor 6:4) Compare Bible Knowledge Commentary On 1 Cor 6:4]:

3) [Compare Expositor's Bible Commentary On 1 Cor 6:4]:

C) [(1 Cor 6:9-11) Commentary On 1 Cor 6:9-11]:

2) [Compare 1 Cor 1:2 On The Meaning Of Sanctified]:

a) [Compare Eph 1:13-14]:

b) [Compare Eph 1:13-14]:

3) [(1 Cor 6:11) Compare Expositor's Bible Commentary On 1 Cor 6:11]:

D) [(1 Cor 6:12-14) Commentary On 1 Cor 6:12-14]:

1) [(1 Cor 6:12-14) Expositor's Commentary On 1 Cor 6:12-14]:

2) [(1 Cor 6:12-14) Bible Knowledge Commentary (1 Cor 6:12-14)]:

E) [(1 Cor 6:12-20) Commentary On 1 Cor 6:15-20]:

1) [(1 Cor 6:15-20) Bible Knowledge Commentary On 1 Cor 6:15-20]:

2) [(1 Cor 6:15-20) Expositor's Commentary On 1 Cor 6:15-20]:

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