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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Gill's Exposition
For ye are bought with a price,.... Not with gold and silver, but with the precious blood of Christ, as the whole church, and all the elect of God are. This proves them to be the Lord's, not only his…
Barnes' Notes
For ye are bought - Ye Christians are purchaseD; and by right of purchase should therefore be employed as he directs. This doctrine is often taught in the New Testament, and the argument is often…
Adam Clarke
Ye are bought with a price - As the slave who is purchased by his master for a sum of money is the sole property of that master, so ye, being bought with the price of the blood of Christ, are not your…
The twelfth verse and former part of the thirteenth seem to relate to that early dispute among Christians about the distinction of meats, and yet to be prefatory to the caution that follows against…
Cambridge Bible
ye are(lit. were) bought with a price the "one sufficient Sacrifice, Oblation and Satisfaction made for the sins of the whole world" by the Death and Passion of our Saviour Christ. Cf. Act 20:28; 1Pe…
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