1 Corinthians 6:20 (WEB)
for you were bought with a price. Therefore glorify God in your body and in your spirit, which are God’s.
Catechism · 2
"I Believe in the Resurrection of the Body"
“So glorify God in your body.” — Catechism footnote: 1 Cor 6:13-15, 19-20.
Man
“The human body shares in the dignity of "the image of God": it is a human body precisely because it is animated by a spiritual soul, and it is the whole human person that is intended to become, in the body of Christ, a temple of the Spirit:” — Catechism footnote: Cf. I Cor 6:19-20; 15:44-45.
Fathers and councils · 22
Origen
“…in the sacred Scriptures has ministered to the edification of all the Churches of Christ, had no thought for those bought with a price, for whom Christ died; whom, although His Son, God who is love spared not, but gave Him up for us all, that with Him He might freely give us all things?” — editor's note: 1 Cor. vi. 20; Rom. xiv. 15.
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Irenaeus of Lyons
“In order, therefore, that we may be perfected for this, aptly does he say to the Corinthians, “Glorify God in your body.”” — editor's note: 1 Cor. vi. 20.
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Catena Aurea on Luke
- BedeCatena Aurea on Luke
“Servants, I say, because bought with a price; (1 Cor. 6:20) unprofitable, for the Lord needeth not our good things, (Ps. 16:2) or because the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared to the glory which shall be revealed in us.” — the author cites it
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Cyprian of Carthage
“Glorify and bear God in your body.”” — editor's note: 1 Cor. vi. 20.
Read the whole comment“Glorify and bear about God in your body.”” — editor's note: 1 Cor. vi. 20.
Read the whole comment“Glorify and bear God in your body.”” — editor's note: 1 Cor. vi. 19, 20.
Read the whole comment“Glorify and bear the Lord in your body.”” — editor's note: 1 Cor. vi. 18–20.
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Athanasius of Alexandria
“Although testimony was borne by Caiaphas against our Redeemer, and He was set at nought by the Jews, and was condemned by Pilate in those days, yet exalted exceedingly and most mighty was the voice of the Father which came to Him; ‘I have glorified, and will glorify again.’” — editor's note: 1 Cor. vi. 20; Is. xlii. 12; Matt. xxvi. 65.
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Jerome
“And in another place, “Ye are bought,” says the apostle, “with a price; be not therefore the servants of men.”” — editor's note: 1 Cor. vi. 20; vii. 23.
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Tertullian
“…changed its condition, and “having been baptized into Christ put on Christ,” and was “redeemed with a great price”—“the blood,” to wit, “of the Lord and Lamb”—you take hold of any one precedent (be it precept, or law, or sentence,) of indulgence granted, or to be granted, to adultery and fornication,—you have…” — editor's note: Comp. 1 Cor. vi. 20, and the references there.
Read the whole comment“…are not your own;” immediately opposing (thereto), “for bought ye are with a price”—the blood, to wit, of the Lord: “glorify and extol the Lord in your body.”” — editor's note: 1 Cor. vi. 19, 20, not exactly.
Read the whole comment“However, let me meanwhile add that in the same passage Paul “carries about in his body the marks of the Lord Jesus;” he also forbids our body to be profaned, as being “the temple of God;” he makes our bodies “the members of Christ;” and he exhorts us to exalt and “glorify God in our body.”” — editor's note: Ver. 20.
Read the whole comment“So, again, when he is ascribing certain praiseworthy actions to the flesh, he says, “Therefore glorify and exalt God in your body,”—being certain that such efforts are actuated by the soul; but still he ascribes them to the flesh, because it is to it that he also promises the recompense.” — editor's note: 1 Cor. vi. 20.
Read the whole comment““For,” he says, “ye are bought with a price.”” — editor's note: 1 Cor. vi. 20.
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“So far as I know, “we are not our own, but bought with a price;” and what kind of price?” — editor's note: 1 Cor. vi. 19, 20.
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Augustine of Hippo
“Whence, also, a little after he saith, “Your body is the temple within you of the Holy Spirit, Whom ye have from God; and ye are not your own; for ye have been bought with a great price.”” — editor's note: 1 Cor. vi. 19, 20
Read the whole comment“And accordingly the apostle says, “Therefore glorify God in your body.”” — editor's note: 1 Cor. vi. 19, 15, 20
Read the whole comment“…glorify God in your body;” when he had said above, “Know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost, which is in you, which ye have of God?” and these three are one God, as catholic soundness believes: it is not sufficiently apparent which person of the Trinity that angel bare, if he was one of the…” — editor's note: 1 Cor. vi. 20, 19
Read the whole comment“But proud men, by whom Christ is despised, because He died, wherein He bought us with so great a price, both bring back the former death, and also men, to that miserable condition of nature, which is derived from the first sin, and will be cast down into the latter death with the devil.” — editor's note: 1 Cor. vi. 20
Read the whole comment“For ye are bought with a great price: therefore glorify God in your body.”” — editor's note: 1 Cor. vi. 19, 20
Read the whole comment““Ye have been bought with a Price;” for your sakes the Word was made Flesh; for your sakes He who was the Son of God, was made the Son of man: that ye who were the sons of men, might be made sons of God.” — editor's note: 1 Cor. vi. 20.
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Leo the Great
“Therefore are we both members of Christ, and the temple of the Holy Ghost: and for this reason the blessed Apostle says, “Glorify and carry God in your body:” for while suggesting to us the standard of His own gentleness and humility, He fills us with that power whereby He redeemed us, as the Lord Himself promises:…” — editor's note: 1 Cor. vi. 20. Glorificate et portate deum in corpore vestro, quoted again in this form in Sermon LIII. 3. Observe (1) that , “et portate” is doubtless a very…
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Cross-references · 24
Cited together in Against Heresies V.13.
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Cited together in Against Heresies V.13.
Cited together in Against Heresies V.13.
Cited together in On the Holy Trinity II.13.
Cited together in Exhortation to Martyrdom, Addressed to Fortunatus Chapter 7.
Cited together in Bede on Luke 17:7–10 (3) (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in On the Resurrection of the Flesh Chapter 10.
Cited together in Sermons Sermon 23.
Cited together in Against Heresies V.13.
Cited together in Against Heresies V.13.
Cited together in Bede on Luke 17:7–10 (3) (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Bede on Luke 17:7–10 (3) (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Bede on Luke 17:7–10 (3) (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Against Heresies V.13.
Cited together in Against Heresies V.13.
Cited together in Bede on Luke 17:7–10 (3) (Catena Aurea) and 1 other place.
Cited together in Exhortation to Martyrdom, Addressed to Fortunatus Chapter 7.
Cited together in Exhortation to Martyrdom, Addressed to Fortunatus Chapter 7.
Cited together in On the Resurrection of the Flesh Chapter 10 and 1 other place.
Cited together in To His Wife II.3.