1 Corinthians 7
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1 Cor. 7:1
wrote - asked a bunch of questions
now concerning - 7:25; 8:1; 12:1; 16:1, 12 answering different questions based on God’s Wisdom
“ this is what Corinthians is saying”
“it is good for a man not to touch a woman” As Lee Caruso would say, Not so fast!
2 extremes in the ancient world - you can do whatever with your body and it doesn’t affect your spirit, and you others thought you should never touch a woman not even your wife and and treat your body extremely harsh because your body is evil, that is asceticism.
virgins are the best sort of Christians and the most holy???
All things are lawful for me, but not all things are profitable. All things are lawful for me, but I will not be mastered by anything.
Food is for the stomach and the stomach is for food, but God will do away with both of them. Yet the body is not for immorality, but for the Lord, and the Lord is for the body.
v. 2 because of fornication
have your own wife - not neighbors, friends, brothers, fathers wife, etc.
some even today think you can’t have sex even between husband and wife unless your having babies that is it, but here is another reason to have so you don’t fornicate.
For this reason a man shall leave his father and his mother, and be joined to his wife; and they shall become one flesh.
sex
v. 3
husband is not to withhold sex from his wife (be sexually attentive to her) and vice-versa
v. 4
she cant say every nite not tonight & vice versa, you neglect this and fornication will take place
v. 5 divine biblical command
stop depriving - withholding
agreement - mutual - just for a time
v. 6-7 wish you could be like me
v. 8
note the structure:
unmarried and widows v. 8
married v. 10
rest v. 12
unmarried & widows - should get married (v. 10 are married)
So then, if while her husband is living she is joined to another man, she shall be called an adulteress; but if her husband dies, she is free from the law, so that she is not an adulteress though she is joined to another man.
v. 10 perfect tense participle (married at some time in the past and are still married)
the Lord Jesus already said this Matt. 19:1-9
chorizo Matt. 19:6 - divorce, separate, split (v. 10 & v. 11 has this same word)
And He said to them, “Whoever divorces his wife and marries another woman commits adultery against her;
and if she herself divorces her husband and marries another man, she is committing adultery.”
“It was said, ‘Whoever sends his wife away, let him give her a certificate of divorce’;
but I say to you that everyone who divorces his wife, except for the reason of unchastity, makes her commit adultery; and whoever marries a divorced woman commits adultery.
Does God join those two in adultery?
maybe one exception
For the married woman is bound by law to her husband while he is living; but if her husband dies, she is released from the law concerning the husband.
So then, if while her husband is living she is joined to another man, she shall be called an adulteress; but if her husband dies, she is free from the law, so that she is not an adulteress though she is joined to another man.
do not leave or divorce - stay together
v. 12 subject Jesus didn’t address in the gospels
“I have many more things to say to you, but you cannot bear them now.
“But when He, the Spirit of truth, comes, He will guide you into all the truth; for He will not speak on His own initiative, but whatever He hears, He will speak; and He will disclose to you what is to come.
which things we also speak, not in words taught by human wisdom, but in those taught by the Spirit, combining spiritual thoughts with spiritual words.
For this reason I have sent to you Timothy, who is my beloved and faithful child in the Lord, and he will remind you of my ways which are in Christ, just as I teach everywhere in every church.
If anyone thinks he is a prophet or spiritual, let him recognize that the things which I write to you are the Lord’s commandment.
v. 13 -14 don’t leave if they consent. What happens if they don’t consent.
Neh. 8 & 9 put away their foreign wives no
v. 14
In the same way, you wives, be submissive to your own husbands so that even if any of them are disobedient to the word, they may be won without a word by the behavior of their wives,
For how do you know, O wife, whether you will save your husband? Or how do you know, O husband, whether you will save your wife?
v. 15 bondage - enslaved - douloo - not enslaved before and still is not enslaved to the unbeliever
you were never enslaved to them (you are slave to obey christ) you can let them go but you must be unmarried (v. 11)
Who’s slave are you. If it comes down to doing the will of the unbeliever or Christ, you have to follow Christ.
leaves them ok in the divorce but not to remarry
A wife is bound as long as her husband lives; but if her husband is dead, she is free to be married to whom she wishes, only in the Lord.
deo - tied or bound
For the married woman is bound by law to her husband while he is living; but if her husband dies, she is released from the law concerning the husband.
So then, if while her husband is living she is joined to another man, she shall be called an adulteress; but if her husband dies, she is free from the law, so that she is not an adulteress though she is joined to another man.
v. 16 how do you know yo might save them
v. 17 this is where some have gotten their right to marry who and when they want. (v. 12-16 been talking about being married to an unbeliever, if you were called in and your spouse is unbelieving then v. 12-16 is about being married to an unbeliever in context stay in the state in which you are in
v. 18 - 19
For neither is circumcision anything, nor uncircumcision, but a new creation.
circumcision - does not effect your salvation
salve - doesn’t effect your salvation
being married to an unbeliever - doesn’t effect your salvation
v. 24 stay in the same relationship
what constitutes a marriage - what makes them married
“Yet you say, ‘For what reason?’ Because the Lord has been a witness between you and the wife of your youth, against whom you have dealt treacherously, though she is your companion and your wife by covenant.
berith - covenant - pact - agreement - between two or more parties. A marriage is an agreement between two people to be married to each other.
For this reason a man shall leave his father and his mother, and be joined to his wife; and they shall become one flesh.
1 Cor. 6:13-15
v. 25 to daddy's with daughters that are virgins - Jesus didn’t go into this
ends in v. 40 inspired by the spirit of God
v. 26 present distress -
v. 28 not a sin to marry but because of present distress it may not be the best idea
trouble - affliction- tribulation - hard times
v. 29 Those who have wives should be as though they had none. They should be as
dedicated and faithful to God in times of persecution as if they were not married.
v. 30 those who weep as though they did not weep, those who rejoice as though they
did not rejoice, those who buy as though they did not possess, Those who weep as though they did not weep. We are not to let our sorrows keep us from our duties to God. Those who rejoice. Neither are we to allow our joys to keep us from serving God. Those who buy. And certainly we are not to allow our possessions to keep us from serving God, but rather we are to use them for the glory of God.
v. 31 the form of this world is passing away - normal wont be normal anymore - the present situation will not last
Come now, you who say, “Today or tomorrow we will go to such and such a city, and spend a year there and engage in business and make a profit.”
Yet you do not know what your life will be like tomorrow. You are just a vapor that appears for a little while and then vanishes away.
Instead, you ought to say, “If the Lord wills, we will live and also do this or that.”
But as it is, you boast in your arrogance; all such boasting is evil.
v. 32 concern - worry
He has time that married men do not have for service to God.
He has money married men do not have to contribute to God’s work.
He is free from mental worries he would have if he were married.
He has less home obligations than if he were married.
There is not the risk of a worldly spouse to hinder him morally and spiritually.
v. 33 easier having to serve the Lord alone than having a wife and serving the Lord in tribulation
v. 34 Holy, “separate from common condition and use.”
Body - give your body as a holy sacrifice - Rom 12:1.
Spirit - the inner man - 2 Cor 7:1. The meaning here is that these can give themselves wholly to the Lord; they are not divided in their concern for the Lord by having to give time and thought to the family.
v. 35 - 36 let them marry
gameo - to get married
gamizo - permit someone else to get married
v. 39
only in the Lord - 2 possible meanings (context v.12-16) probably means you should only marry a Christian or marry as long as both are able to according to the Lord’s commandments.
Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right.
obey your parents according to Jesus teaching honor your father and mother
could mean something different
1 Tim. 5:1ff