Flee Sexual Immorality

^12 (A)“All things are lawful for me,” but not all things are helpful. “All things are lawful for me,” but I will not be dominated by anything. ^13 (B)“Food is meant for the stomach and the stomach for food”—and God will destroy both one ^(C)and the other. The body is not meant for sexual immorality, but ^(D)for the Lord, and ^(E)the Lord for the body. ¹⁴ And ^(F)God raised the Lord and ^(G)will also raise us up ^(H)by his power. ¹⁵ Do you not know that ^(I)your bodies are members of Christ? Shall I then take the members of Christ and make them members of a prostitute? Never! ¹⁶ Or do you not know that he who is joined^[a] to a prostitute becomes one body with her? For, as it is written, ^(J)“The two will become one flesh.” ¹⁷ But he who is joined to the Lord ^(K)becomes one spirit with him. ^18 (L)Flee from sexual immorality. Every other sin^[b] a person commits is outside the body, but the sexually immoral person ^(M)sins against his own body. ¹⁹ Or ^(N)do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit within you, whom you have from God? ^(O)You are not your own, ^20 (P)for you were bought with a price. ^(Q)So glorify God in your body.

⁵ For ^(A)if we have been united with him in ^(B)a death like his, we shall certainly be united with him in a resurrection like his. ⁶ We know that ^(C)our old self^{[a] (D)}was crucified with him in order that ^(E)the body of sin might be brought to nothing, so that we would no longer be enslaved to sin. ⁷ For ^(F)one who has died ^(G)has been set free^[b] from sin. ⁸ Now ^(H)if we have died with Christ, we believe that we will also live with him. ⁹ We know that ^(I)Christ, being raised from the dead, will never die again; ^(J)death no longer has dominion over him. ¹⁰ For the death he died he died to sin, ^(K)once for all, but the life he lives he lives to God. ¹¹ So you also must consider yourselves ^(L)dead to sin and alive to God in Christ Jesus.

¹² Let not ^(M)sin therefore reign in your mortal body, to make you obey its passions. ^13 (N)Do not present your members to sin as instruments for unrighteousness, but ^(O)present yourselves to God as those who have been brought from death to life, and your members to God as instruments for righteousness. ¹⁴ For ^(P)sin ^(Q)will have no dominion over you, since you are not under law but under grace.