Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)

Do Not Be Sexually Immoral

¹² “All^[a] things are lawful^[b] to me”, but not all things are beneficial^[c]. “All things are lawful to me”, but I will not be mastered by any. ¹³ Foods^[d] are for the stomach and the stomach for foods. But God will do-away-with^[e] both this and these. But the body is not for sexual-immorality, but for the Lord, and the Lord is for the body. ¹⁴ And God both raised the Lord and will raise us up by His power.

Your Bodies Are Body-Parts of Christ: Flee Sexual Immorality

¹⁵ Do you not know that your bodies are body-parts^[f] of Christ? Therefore, having taken-away the body-parts of Christ, shall I make them body-parts of a prostitute? May it never be! ¹⁶ Or do you not know that the one joining himself to a prostitute is one body with her? For He says [in Gen 2:24] “the two will be one flesh”. ¹⁷ But the one joining himself to the Lord is one spirit with Him. ¹⁸ Be fleeing sexual immorality.

Your Body Is The Temple of The Holy Spirit. Glorify God In Your Body

Every sin which a person may do is outside the body. But the one committing-sexual-immorality is sinning against his own body. ¹⁹ Or do you not know that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit in you, Whom you have from God? And you are not your own^[g], ²⁰ for you were bought with a price. Therefore glorify God in your body.

Jesus Finds Philip, Who Finds Nathanael. They Follow The Son of God, The King of Israel

⁴³ On the next day He wanted^[a] to go forth to Galilee. And He finds Philip. And Jesus says to him, “Be following Me”. ⁴⁴ Now Philip was from Bethsaida, of the city of Andrew and Peter. ⁴⁵ Philip finds Nathanael and says to him, “We have found the One of whom Moses wrote in the Law, and the Prophets wrote— Jesus, son of Joseph, from Nazareth”. ⁴⁶ And Nathanael said to him, “Is anything good able to be out of Nazareth?” Philip says to him, “Come and see”. ⁴⁷ Jesus saw Nathanael coming to Him, and says about him, “Look— truly an Israelite in whom there is no deceit”. ⁴⁸ Nathanael says to Him, “From where do You know me?” Jesus responded and said to him, “Before Philip called you, while being^[b] under the fig tree, I saw you”. ⁴⁹ Nathanael responded to Him, “Rabbi, You are the Son of God. You are the King of Israel”. ⁵⁰ Jesus responded and said to him, “Do^[c] you believe because I said to you that I saw you under the fig tree? You will see greater things than these!” ⁵¹ And He says to him, “Truly, truly, I say to you^[d] all, you will see heaven opened and the angels of God ascending and descending upon the Son of Man”.