1 Corinthians 6:13
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13 (A)Foods for the stomach and the stomach for foods, but God will destroy both it and them. Now the body is not for (B)sexual immorality but (C)for the Lord, (D)and the Lord for the body.
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1 Corinthians 6:19
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19 Or (A)do you not know that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have from God, (B)and you are not your own?
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1 Corinthians 3:16
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16 (A)Do you not know that you are the temple of God and that the Spirit of God dwells in you?
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Romans 6:12
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12 (A)Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal body, that you should obey it in its lusts.
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1 Corinthians 6:15
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15 Do you not know that (A)your bodies are members of Christ? Shall I then take the members of Christ and make them members of a harlot? Certainly not!
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1 Thessalonians 4:3-7
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3 For this is (A)the will of God, (B)your sanctification: (C)that you should abstain from sexual immorality; 4 (D)that each of you should know how to possess his own vessel in sanctification and honor, 5 (E)not in passion of lust, (F)like the Gentiles (G)who do not know God; 6 that no one should take advantage of and defraud his brother in this matter, because the Lord (H)is the avenger of all such, as we also forewarned you and testified. 7 For God did not call us to uncleanness, (I)but in holiness.
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Ephesians 5:23
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23 For (A)the husband is head of the wife, as also (B)Christ is head of the church; and He is the Savior of the body.
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Matthew 15:17
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17 Do you not yet understand that (A)whatever enters the mouth goes into the stomach and is eliminated?
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Romans 14:17
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17 (A)for the kingdom of God is not eating and drinking, but righteousness and (B)peace and joy in the Holy Spirit.
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Romans 12:1
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Living Sacrifices to God
12 I (A)beseech[a] you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that you present your bodies (B)a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your [b]reasonable service.
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- Romans 12:1 urge
- Romans 12:1 rational
Romans 14:7-9
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7 For (A)none of us lives to himself, and no one dies to himself. 8 For if we (B)live, we live to the Lord; and if we die, we die to the Lord. Therefore, whether we live or die, we are the Lord’s. 9 For (C)to this end Christ died [a]and rose and lived again, that He might be (D)Lord of both the dead and the living.
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- Romans 14:9 NU omits and rose
Colossians 2:22-23
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22 which all concern things which perish with the using—(A)according to the commandments and doctrines of men? 23 (B)These things indeed have an appearance of wisdom in self-imposed religion, false humility, and [a]neglect of the body, but are of no value against the indulgence of the flesh.
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- Colossians 2:23 severe treatment, asceticism
2 Corinthians 11:2
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2 For I am (A)jealous for you with godly jealousy. For (B)I have betrothed you to one husband, (C)that I may present you (D)as a chaste virgin to Christ.
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