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  1. St. Paul's Teaching on the Sanctity and Respect of the Human Body..... 138 St. Paul's Description of the Body and Teaching on Purity..... 140 The Virtue of Purity Is the Expression and Fruit of Life According to the Spirit. 143

  2. The very existence of the body as a viable organism depends on the union and cooperation of individual members that each carry out different functions. The body could not possibly function if it consisted only of one specific part. A body that had only one part would not even be a body. Paul will return to this idea in verse nineteen.

  3. Paul evolves both the Jewish Pharisaic and Greek concepts of the body. so that one can have a life lived fully in the spirit because, as Paul claims, the crucifixion. of Christ had made the body and the spirit remain as one whole body.1 “The body is not. a neutral thing, placed between nature and the city.

    • Miranda Iddon
    • 2015
  4. the contrast between the former life and the Spirit and thus focuses attention on the change the Spirit's ministry performs. The point, then, is that a person is regenerated only through the work of the Spirit.11 The regenerating work of the Spirit brings about new life in Christ. The new life in Christ is summarized in Paul's classic state-

  5. For the body does not consist of one member but of many. If the foot should say, "Because I am not a hand, I do not belong to the body," that would not make it any less a part of the body. And if the ear should say, "Because I am not an eye, I do not belong to the body," that would not make it any less a part of the body. (1 Corinthians 12:14 ...

  6. Colossians 1:13 captures the essence of Paul’s theology in a single verse: “He has delivered us from the domain of darkness and transferred us to the kingdom of his beloved Son” (ESV). Elsewhere in his letters, Paul draws the contrast between “our old self” and “our new self” and, more pointedly, between “in Adam” and “in ...

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  8. ters stem from Paul’s understanding of God. Paul certainly says many things that reflect the values of the culture in which he was situated (for example, his remarks about men and women in 1 Cor 11:3–16), but he also consistently brings his theo-logical convictions to bear on his practical judgments. Paul expects his life and his

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