12 "Everything is permissible for me"--but not everything is beneficial. "Everything is permissible for me"--but I will not be mastered by anything. |
13 "Food for the stomach and the stomach for food"--but God will destroy them both. The body is not meant for sexual immorality, but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body. |
14 By his power God raised the Lord from the dead, and he will raise us also. |
15 Do you not know that your bodies are members of Christ himself? Shall I then take the members of Christ and unite them with a prostitute? Never! |
16 Do you not know that he who unites himself with a prostitute is one with her in body? For it is said, "The two will become one flesh."2 6:16 Gen. 2:24 |
17 But he who unites himself with the Lord is one with him in spirit. |
18 Flee from sexual immorality. All other sins a man commits are outside his body, but he who sins sexually sins against his own body. |
19 Do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit, who is in you, whom you have received from God? You are not your own; |
20 you were bought at a price. Therefore honor God with your body. |