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 6:19What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own?
• 1 Cor 3:16Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you?
• Rom 6:12Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, that ye should obey it in the lusts thereof.
• 1 Cor 6:15Know ye not that your bodies are the members of Christ? shall I then take the members of Christ, and make them the members of an harlot? God forbid.
• 1 Th 4:3–7For this is the will of God, even your sanctification, that ye should abstain from fornication:
• Eph 5:23For the husband is the head of the wife, even as Christ is the head of the church: and he is the saviour of the body.
• Matt 15:17Do not ye yet understand, that whatsoever entereth in at the mouth goeth into the belly, and is cast out into the draught?
• Rom 14:17For the kingdom of God is not meat and drink; but righteousness, and peace, and joy in the Holy Ghost.
• Rom 12:1I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service.
• Rom 14:7–9For none of us liveth to himself, and no man dieth to himself.
• John 6:27Labour not for the meat which perisheth, but for that meat which endureth unto everlasting life, which the Son of man shall give unto you: for him hath God the Father sealed.
• 1 Cor 10:3–5And did all eat the same spiritual meat;
• Mark 7:19Because it entereth not into his heart, but into the belly, and goeth out into the draught, purging all meats?
• Col 2:22–23Which all are to perish with the using;) after the commandments and doctrines of men?
• 2 Cor 5:15And that he died for all, that they which live should not henceforth live unto themselves, but unto him which died for them, and rose again.
• Matt 15:20These are the things which defile a man: but to eat with unwashen hands defileth not a man.
• 2 Cor 11:2For I am jealous over you with godly jealousy: for I have espoused you to one husband, that I may present you as a chaste virgin to Christ.
• John 6:49Your fathers did eat manna in the wilderness, and are dead.
• Rom 7:4Wherefore, my brethren, ye also are become dead to the law by the body of Christ; that ye should be married to another, even to him who is raised from the dead, that we should bring forth fruit unto God.

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