With what price were believers bought according to 1 Corinthians 6:20?
According to 1 Corinthians 6:20, believers were bought with a price, and the context explains that this price was not money or anything they possessed. It was the blood of Christ, as Peter also states, so they should glorify God in their body.
Les explains that 1 Corinthians 6:20 says believers are bought with a price, but not with our money or anything we have; the price is the blood of Christ, as Peter puts it in his epistle. This follows Paul's point that the body is the temple or dwelling place of the Holy Spirit, who is given by God, not bought. Les illustrates with Simon in Samaria, who tried to buy the gift and power of the Holy Spirit and was told his money would perish with him. Because the Holy Spirit is a gift, believers are not their own; they did not deserve or earn it, and they should glorify God in their body, which belongs to the Creator God Himself.
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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What does 'you are bought with a price' mean in 1 Corinthians 6:20?
Believers are bought with a price—not with money or anything they have, but with the blood of Christ.