1 Corinthians 6:13

Food and the stomach are passing, but the body is meant for the Lord, not immorality, and the Lord for the body. It matters because the body is not morally neutral—it belongs to Christ.

Cross-references · 19

• 1 Cor 6:19Or don’t you know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have from God? You are not your own,
• 1 Cor 3:16Don’t you know that you are a temple of God, and that God’s Spirit lives in you?
• Rom 6:12Therefore don’t let sin reign in your mortal body, that you should obey it in its lusts.
• 1 Cor 6:15Don’t you know that your bodies are members of Christ? Shall I then take the members of Christ, and make them members of a prostitute? May it never be!
• 1 Th 4:3–7For this is the will of God: your sanctification, that you abstain from sexual immorality,
• Eph 5:23For the husband is the head of the wife, as Christ also is the head of the assembly, being himself the savior of the body.
• Matt 15:17Don’t you understand that whatever goes into the mouth passes into the belly, and then out of the body?
• Rom 14:17for God’s Kingdom is not eating and drinking, but righteousness, peace, and joy in the Holy Spirit.
• Rom 12:1Therefore I urge you, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your spiritual service.
• Rom 14:7–9For none of us lives to himself, and none dies to himself.
• John 6:27Don’t work for the food which perishes, but for the food which remains to eternal life, which the Son of Man will give to you. For God the Father has sealed him.”
• 1 Cor 10:3–5and all ate the same spiritual food;
• Mark 7:19because it doesn’t go into his heart, but into his stomach, then into the latrine, thus purifying all foods?”
• Col 2:22–23(all of which perish with use), according to the precepts and doctrines of men?
• 2 Cor 5:15He died for all, that those who live should no longer live to themselves, but to him who for their sakes died and rose again.
• Matt 15:20These are the things which defile the man; but to eat with unwashed hands doesn’t defile the man.”
• 2 Cor 11:2For I am jealous over you with a godly jealousy. For I married you to one husband, that I might present you as a pure virgin to Christ.
• John 6:49Your fathers ate the manna in the wilderness, and they died.
• Rom 7:4Therefore, my brothers, you also were made dead to the law through the body of Christ, that you would be joined to another, to him who was raised from the dead, that we might produce fruit to God.

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