1 Corinthians 6:12
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Glorify God in Body and Spirit
12 “All things are permitted for me,” but not all things are beneficial. “All things are permitted for me,” but I will not be dominated by anything.
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Ecclesiastes 2:1
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The Futility of Self-Indulgence
2 I said to myself, “Come now, I will make a test of pleasure; enjoy yourself.” But again, this also was vanity.(A)
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Ecclesiastes 2:10-11
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10 Whatever my eyes desired I did not keep from them; I kept my heart from no pleasure, for my heart found pleasure from all my toil, and this was my reward from all my toil.(A) 11 Then I considered all that my hands had done and the toil I had spent in doing it, and again, all was vanity and a chasing after wind, and there was nothing to be gained under the sun.(B)
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1 Corinthians 6:13
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13 “Food is meant for the stomach and the stomach for food,”[a] and God will destroy both one and the other. The body is meant not for sexual immorality but for the Lord and the Lord for the body.(A)
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- 6.13 The quotation may extend to the word other
1 Corinthians 7:1
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Directions concerning Marriage
7 Now concerning the matters about which you wrote: “It is good for a man not to touch a woman.”
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1 Corinthians 6:19
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19 Or do you not know that your body is a temple[a] of the Holy Spirit within you, which you have from God, and that you are not your own?(A)
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- 6.19 Or sanctuary
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