17For we being many are one bread, and one body: for we are all partakers of that one bread.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
So we, being many, are one body in Christ, and every one members one of another.
Now ye are the body of Christ, and members in particular.
And let the peace of God rule in your hearts, to the which also ye are called in one body; and be ye thankful.
For as the body is one, and hath many members, and all the members of that one body, being many, are one body: so also is Christ.
Wherefore putting away lying, speak every man truth with his neighbour: for we are members one of another.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 15-22)In this passage the apostle urges the general caution against idolatry, in the particular case of eating the heathen sacrifices as such, and out of any religious respect to the idol to whom they were sacrificed. I. He prefaces his argument with an appeal to their own reason and judgment: “ I speak to wise men, judge you what I say , 1 Cor. 10:15. You are great pretenders to wisdom, to close reason…
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