1 Corinthians 6:12-18

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Glorify God in Body and Spirit

¹²“All things are lawful for me,” but not all things are helpful. “All things are lawful for me,”^[a] but I will not be enslaved by anything. ¹³“Food is meant for the stomach and the stomach for food”—and God will destroy both one and the other. The body is not meant for immorality,^[b] but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body. ¹⁴And God raised the Lord and will also raise us up by his power. ¹⁵Do you not know that your bodies are members of Christ? Shall I therefore take the members of Christ and make them members of a prostitute? Never! ¹⁶Do you not know that he who joins himself to a prostitute becomes one body with her? For, as it is written, “The two shall become one.”^[c] ¹⁷But he who is united to the Lord becomes one spirit with him. ¹⁸Shun immorality.^[d] Every other sin which a man commits is outside the body; but the immoral man sins against his own body.

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Footnotes

6.12 This saying is possibly an exaggeration of the freedom from the Mosaic law that Christians enjoyed. The saying has been applied to sinful practices, as is clear from the following verses.
6.13, 18 immorality: i.e., sexual immorality.
1 Corinthians 6:16 Greek one flesh
6.13, 18 immorality: i.e., sexual immorality.

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