1 Corinthians 6:12-20

Avoid Sexual Immorality

12 All [things] are permitted for me, but not all [things] are profitable. All [things] are permitted for me, but I will not be controlled by anything.
13 Food [is] for the stomach, and the stomach for food, but God will abolish {both of them}. Now the body [is] not for sexual immorality, but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body.
14 And God both raised up the Lord and will raise us up by his power.
15 Do you not know that your bodies are members of Christ? Therefore, shall I take away the members of Christ [and] make [them] members of a prostitute? May it never be!
16 Or do you not know that the one who joins himself to a prostitute is one body [with her]? For it says, "The two will become one flesh."
17 But the one who joins himself to the Lord is one spirit [with him].
18 Flee sexual immorality. Every sin that a person commits is outside his body, but the one who commits sexual immorality sins against his own body.
19 Or do you not know that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit [who is] in you, whom you have from God, and you are not your own?
20 For you were bought at a price; therefore glorify God with your body.

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Footnotes 2

  • [a]. Literally "both this and these"
  • [b]. A quotation from Gen 2:24
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