Apostle Paul's Epistle to the Corintihians, part VII, teaching 1

From The Teaching Saturday, May 5, 2012

Apostle Paul's Epistle To The Corinthians, part VII

Part I

I Corth. 7:1: Now concerning the things whereof ye wrote unto me: It is good for a man not to touch a woman.

2 Nevertheless, to avoid fornication, let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband.



3 Let the husband render unto the wife due benevolence: and likewise also the wife unto the husband.



Due benevolence (Greek interprentation): Kindness, Good will,
conjuical duty.



Vs 4: The wife hath not power of her own body, but the husband: and likewise also the husband hath not power of his own body, but the wife.



5 Defraud ye not one the other, except it be with consent for a time, that ye may give yourselves to fasting and prayer; and come together again, that Satan tempt you not for your incontinency.



6 But I speak this by permission, and not of commandment.(Paul is speaking by permission and not of commandment, because of his calling he is able to say these things.)



permission:

• I say this by way of concession, I am conceding, I am not
  

imposing a rule upon you.

• But, as I say this, I am yielding to you, not ordering you.
  

vs. 7: For I would that all men were even as I myself. But every man hath his proper gift of God, one after this manner, and another after that.



8 I say therefore to the unmarried and widows, it is good for them if they abide even as I.
Paul was unmarried



9 But if they cannot contain, let them marry: for it is better to marry than to burn.



Burn:(explained):

• It is better to marry than to be aflame with passion
  
• Have self control, have command of thy passions and
  appetites.
  

vs. 10:  And unto the married I command, yet not I, but the Lord, Let not the wife depart from her husband:



11 But and if she depart, let her remain unmarried or be reconciled to her husband: and let not the husband put away his wife.



The Pharisees tried to trick/test Jesus in Matthew 9:3: The Pharisees also came unto him, tempting him, and saying unto him, Is it lawful for a man to put away his wife for every cause?



4 And he answered and said unto them, Have ye not read, that he which made them at the beginning made them male and female,



5 And said, For this cause shall a man leave father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife: and they twain shall be one flesh?



6 Wherefore they are no more twain, but one flesh. What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder.
7 They say unto him, Why did Moses then command to give a writing of divorcement, and to put her away?



8 He saith unto them, Moses because of the hardness of your hearts suffered you to put away your wives: but from the beginning it was not so.



9 And I say unto you, Whosoever shall put away his wife, except it be for fornication, and shall marry another, committeth adultery: and whoso marrieth her which is put away doth commit adultery.



10 His disciples say unto him, If the case of the man be so with his wife, it is not good to marry.



11 But he said unto them, All men cannot receive this saying, save they to whom it is given.



12 For there are some eunuchs, which were so born from their mother's womb: and there are some eunuchs, which were made eunuchs of men: and there be eunuchs, which have made themselves eunuchs for the kingdom of heaven's sake. He that is able to receive it, let him receive it.



Jesus referred to the Law of Moses in his answer: Dt. 24:1:When a man hath taken a wife, and married her, and it come to pass that she find no favour in his eyes, because he hath found some uncleanness in her: then let him write her a bill of divorcement, and give it in her hand, and send her out of his house.



2 And when she is departed out of his house, she may go and be another man's wife.



3 And if the latter husband hate her, and write her a bill of divorcement, and giveth it in her hand, and sendeth her out of his house; or if the latter husband die, which took her to be his wife;



4 Her former husband, which sent her away, may not take her again to be his wife, after that she is defiled; for that is abomination before the Lord: and thou shalt not cause the land to sin, which the Lord thy God giveth thee for an inheritance.
5 When a man hath taken a new wife, he shall not go out to war, neither shall he be charged with any business: but he shall be free at home one year, and shall cheer up his wife which he hath taken.



Another reference and reason is found in Dt. 24:1: And Adam said, This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh: she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man.



24 Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.



I Corth 7:12: But to the rest speak I, not the Lord: If any brother hath a wife that believeth not, and she be pleased to dwell with him, let him not put her away. (Paul is not speaking to the world, they will do what they want to do, but the church needs this.)

• To the rest of the people, I myself would say-though the Lord himself
  had said nothing about it.
  
• For a brother who has a non Christian wife and she pleased to dwell
  with him, let him not leave.
  

13 And the woman which hath an husband that believeth not, and if he be pleased to dwell with her, let her not leave him.