1 Corinthians 8:6

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - 1 Corinthians 8:4-6

The content of the way of knowledge 8:4-6Paul resumed his discussion of knowledge after digressing briefly in 1 Corinthians 8:2-3 to comment on the superiority of love over knowledge. read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - 1 Corinthians 8:6

For instructed Christians there is only one God and one Lord. Paul did not mean that there are two separate beings, God and Lord. These are two names for the one true God who exists as Father and Son. The Scriptures establish the deity of Jesus Christ elsewhere (e.g., John 1:1; John 1:14; John 10:30; Colossians 1:15-19; et al.). Paul did not argue that point here but simply stated the Son’s equality with the Father within the Godhead.The point of difference is this. The Father is the source and... read more

John Darby

Darby's Synopsis of the New Testament - 1 Corinthians 8:6

8:6 of (b-10) 'Of,' ek ; 'for,' eis ; 'by,' dia . read more

John Dummelow

John Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible - 1 Corinthians 8:1-13

(b) Food offered to Idols(i) The Principle of SelfdenialKnowledge must be tempered by love. More enlightened Christians must respect the scruples of their weaker brethren in the matter of eating meat which had been offered to idols.1-13. Paraphrase. ’Your next question relates to meat offered in sacrifice to idols, asking whether it is permissible for a Christian to partake of it. We all know, as you remark, that such food is absolutely harmless to a man’s spiritual life; but we must have... read more

Charles John Ellicott

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - 1 Corinthians 8:6

(6) But to us.—Though this be so, yet for us Christians there exists but one God the Father, from whom alone every created thing has come, and for (not “in”) whom alone we exist; and one Lord Jesus Christ, through whom all things are created (John 1:3), and we Christians created spiritually by Him. All creation is of the Father through the Son. All creation is for the Father and likewise for the Son. (See Colossians 1:16.) The words “we by Him” must not be regarded as a repetition of part of... read more

William Nicoll

Expositor's Dictionary of Texts - 1 Corinthians 8:1-13

1 Corinthians 8:1 This was a favourite text of Bacon's. Thus, in Valerius Terminus he observes: 'Evermore it must be remembered that the least part of knowledge passed to man by this so large charter from God must be subject to that use for which God hath granted it; which is the benefit and relief of the state and society of man; for otherwise all manner of knowledge becometh malign and serpentine, and therefore as carrying the quality of the serpent's sting and malice it maketh the mind of... read more

William Nicoll

Expositor's Bible Commentary - 1 Corinthians 8:1-13

Chapter 12LIBERTY AND LOVETHE next question which had been put to Paul by the Corinthian Church, and to which he now replies, is "touching things offered unto idols," whether a Christian had liberty to eat such things or not. This question necessarily arose in a society partly heathen and partly Christian. Every meal was in a manner dedicated to the household gods by laying some portion of it on the family altar. Where one member of a heathen family had become a Christian, he would at once be... read more

Arno Clemens Gaebelein

Arno Gaebelein's Annotated Bible - 1 Corinthians 8:1-13

5. Concerning Meats Offered to Idols: Christian Liberty Governed by Love CHAPTER 8 1. Concerning things sacrificed to idols and knowledge. (1 Corinthians 8:1-6 ). 2. True knowledge and liberty governed by love. (1 Corinthians 8:7-13 ). Another question is raised concerning things offered to idols. Should Christians eat what had been offered in sacrifice to idols? These idol-offered meats were generally sold in the meat market. Would a believer be defiled by using such meats? They all had... read more

John Calvin

Geneva Study Bible - 1 Corinthians 8:6

8:6 But to us [there is but] one God, the Father, {f} of whom [are] all things, and we {g} in him; and {h} one Lord Jesus Christ, {i} by whom [are] all things, and we by him.(f) When the Father is distinguished from the Son, he is named the beginning of all things.(g) We have our being in him.(h) But as the Father is called Lord, so is the Son therefore God: therefore this word "one" does not regard the persons, but the natures.(i) This word "by" does not signify the instrumental cause, but the... read more

L.M. Grant

L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible - 1 Corinthians 8:1-13

Chapters 1 Timothy 4:0 have given God's answer to worldly wisdom; chapters 5 to 7 have dealt with questions concerning the flesh: now chapter 8 turns to the matter of Satanic influence, and this is further discussed in chapter 10 and the beginning of chapter 12. The Corinthians were too little aware of the subtlety of all three of these evil influences, the world, the flesh, and the Devil. But they had evidently questioned Paul as to the eating of things sacrificed to idols. All Christians... read more

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