The Body Is the Lord’s

^12 (A)All things are permitted for me, but not all things are of benefit. All things are permitted for me, but I will not be mastered by anything. ^13 (B)Food is for the stomach and the stomach is for food, however God will ^(C)do away with both ^[a]of them. But the body is not for sexual immorality, but ^(D)for the Lord, and ^(E)the Lord is for the body. ¹⁴ Now God has not only ^(F)raised the Lord, but ^(G)will also raise us up through His power. ^15 (H)Do you not know that ^(I)your bodies are parts of Christ? Shall I then take away the parts of Christ and make them parts of a prostitute? ^[b](J)Far from it! ¹⁶ Or ^(K)do you not know that the one who joins himself to a prostitute is one body with her? For He says, “^(L)The two shall become one flesh.” ¹⁷ But the one who joins himself to the Lord is ^(M)one spirit with Him. ^18 (N)Flee sexual immorality. Every other sin that a person commits is outside the body, but the ^[c]sexually immoral person sins against his own body. ¹⁹ Or ^(O)do you not know that ^(P)your body is a ^[d]temple of the Holy Spirit within you, whom you have from ^[e]God, and that ^(Q)you are not your own? ²⁰ For ^(R)you have been bought for a price: therefore glorify God in ^(S)your body.

Teaching on Marriage

7 Now concerning the things about which you wrote, it is ^(T)good for a man ^[f]not to touch a woman. ² But because of sexual immoralities, each man is to have his own wife, and each woman is to have her own husband. ³ The husband must fulfill his duty to his wife, and likewise the wife also to her husband. ⁴ The wife does not have authority over her own body, but the husband does; and likewise the husband also does not have authority over his own body, but the wife does. ^5 [g](U)Stop depriving one another, except by agreement for a time so that you may devote yourselves to prayer, and ^[h]come together again so that ^(V)Satan will not tempt you because of your lack of self-control.