1 Corinthians 6:18-20
New American Bible (Revised Edition)
18 Avoid immorality. Every other sin a person commits is outside the body, but the immoral person sins against his own body.[a] 19 Do you not know that your body is a temple[b] of the holy Spirit within you, whom you have from God, and that you are not your own?(A) 20 For you have been purchased at a price. Therefore glorify God in your body.(B)
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- 6:18 Against his own body: expresses the intimacy and depth of sexual disorder, which violates the very orientation of our bodies.
- 6:19–20 Paul’s vision becomes trinitarian. A temple: sacred by reason of God’s gift, his indwelling Spirit. Not your own: but “for the Lord,” who acquires ownership by the act of redemption. Glorify God in your body: the argument concludes with a positive imperative to supplement the negative “avoid immorality” of 1 Cor 6:18. Far from being a terrain that is morally indifferent, the area of sexuality is one in which our relationship with God (and his Christ and his Spirit) is very intimately expressed: he is either highly glorified or deeply offended.
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