1 Corinthians 6:12-20

The Body Is the Lord's

12 1All things are lawful for me, but not all things are profitable. All things are lawful for me, but I will not be mastered by anything.
13 2Food is for the stomach and the stomach is for food, but God will 3do away with both of them. Yet the body is not for immorality, but 4for the Lord, and 5the Lord is for the body.
14 Now God has not only 6raised the Lord, but 7will also raise us up through His power.
15 8Do you not know that 9your bodies are members of Christ? Shall I then take away the members of Christ and make them members of a prostitute? 10May it never be!
16 Or 11do you not know that the one who joins himself to a prostitute is one body with her? For He says, "12THE TWO SHALL BECOME * ONE FLESH."
17 But the one who joins himself to the Lord is 13one spirit with Him.
18 14Flee immorality. Every other sin that a man commits is outside the body, but the immoral man sins against his own body.
19 Or 15do you not know that 16your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have from God, and that 17you are not your own?
20 For 18you have been bought with a price: therefore glorify God in 19your body.

Images for 1 Corinthians 6:12-20

Cross References 19

  • 1. 1 Corinthians 10:23
  • 2. Matthew 15:17
  • 3. Colossians 2:22
  • 4. 1 Corinthians 6:15, 19
  • 5. Galatians 5:24; Ephesians 5:23
  • 6. Acts 2:24
  • 7. John 6:39; 1 Corinthians 15:23
  • 8. 1 Corinthians 6:3
  • 9. Romans 12:5; 1 Corinthians 6:13; 1 Corinthians 12:27; Ephesians 5:30
  • 10. Luke 20:16
  • 11. 1 Corinthians 6:3
  • 12. Genesis 2:24; Matthew 19:5; Mark 10:8; Ephesians 5:31
  • 13. John 17:21-23; Romans 8:9-11; 1 Corinthians 6:15; Galatians 2:20
  • 14. 1 Corinthians 6:9; 2 Corinthians 12:21; Ephesians 5:3; Colossians 3:5; Hebrews 13:4
  • 15. 1 Corinthians 6:3
  • 16. John 2:21; 1 Corinthians 3:16; 2 Corinthians 6:16
  • 17. Romans 14:7
  • 18. Acts 20:28; 1 Corinthians 7:23; 1 Peter 1:18; 2 Peter 2:1; Revelation 5:9
  • 19. Romans 12:1; Philippians 1:20

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