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For ye were bought with a price (ēgorasthēte gar timēs). First aorist passive indicative of agorazō, old verb to buy in the marketplace (agora). With genitive of price. Paul does not here state the price as Peter does in 1Pe 1:19 (the blood of Christ) and as Jesus does in Mat 20:28 (his life a ransom). The Corinthians understood his meaning.
Glorify God therefore in your body (doxasate dē ton theon en tōi sōmati humōn). Passionate conclusion to his powerful argument against sexual uncleanness. Dē is a shortened form of ēdē and is an urgent inferential particle. See note on Luk 2:15. Paul holds to his high ideal of the destiny of the body and urges glorifying God in it. Some of the later Christians felt that Paul’s words could be lightened a bit by adding “and in your spirits which are his,” but these words are found only in late MSS. and are clearly not genuine. Paul’s argument stands four-square for the dignity of the body as the sanctuary of the Holy Spirit united to the Lord Jesus.