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 6:19Do 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;
• 1 Cor 3:16Do you not know that you yourselves are God’s temple, and that God’s Spirit dwells in you?
• Rom 6:12Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal body so that you obey its desires.
• 1 Cor 6:15Do you not know that your bodies are members of Christ? Shall I then take the members of Christ and unite them with a prostitute? Never!
• 1 Th 4:3–7For it is God’s will that you should be holy: You must abstain from sexual immorality;
• Eph 5:23For the husband is the head of the wife as Christ is the head of the church, His body, of which He is the Savior.
• Matt 15:17“Do you not yet realize that whatever enters the mouth goes into the stomach and then is eliminated?
• Rom 14:17For the kingdom of God is not a matter of eating and drinking, but of righteousness, peace, and joy in the Holy Spirit.
• Rom 12:1Therefore I urge you, brothers, on account of God’s mercy, to offer your bodies as living sacrifices, holy and pleasing to God, which is your spiritual service of worship.
• Rom 14:7–9For none of us lives to himself alone, and none of us dies to himself alone.
• John 6:27Do not work for food that perishes, but for food that endures to eternal life, which the Son of Man will give you. For on Him God the Father has placed His seal of approval.”
• 1 Cor 10:3–5They all ate the same spiritual food
• Mark 7:19because it does not enter his heart, but it goes into the stomach and then is eliminated.” (Thus all foods are clean.)
• Col 2:22–23These will all perish with use, because they are based on human commands and teachings.
• 2 Cor 5:15And He died for all, that those who live should no longer live for themselves, but for Him who died for them and was raised again.
• Matt 15:20These are what defile a man, but eating with unwashed hands does not defile him.”
• 2 Cor 11:2I am jealous for you with a godly jealousy. For I promised you to one husband, to present you as a pure virgin to Christ.
• John 6:49Your fathers ate the manna in the wilderness, yet they died.
• Rom 7:4Therefore, my brothers, you also died to the law through the body of Christ, that you might belong to another, to Him who was raised from the dead, in order that we might bear fruit to God.

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