John Calvin Commentary


John Calvin Commentary
"and God both raised the Lord, and will raise up as through his power." — 1 Corinthians 6:14 (ASV)
And God hath also raised up the Lord. He shows from Christ’s condition how unfitting fornication is for a Christian, for since Christ has been received into the heavenly glory, what does He have in common with the pollutions of this world? Two things, however, are contained in these words.
The first is that it is unfitting and unlawful for our body, which is consecrated to Christ, to be profaned by fornication, since Christ Himself has been raised from the dead to enter on the possession of the heavenly glory.
The second is that it is a shameful thing to prostitute our body to earthly pollutions when it is destined to be a partaker along with Christ of a blessed immortality and of the heavenly glory.
There is a similar statement in Colossians 3:1, If we have risen with Christ, and so on, with this difference: he speaks here of the last resurrection only, while in that passage he speaks of the first also—in other words, of the grace of the Holy Spirit, by which we are fashioned again to a new life.
However, since the resurrection is a thing almost incredible (Acts 26:8) to the human mind, when Scripture mentions it, it reminds us of the power of God to confirm our faith in it (Matthew 22:29).