12
"Everything is permissible for me"--but not everything is beneficial. "Everything is permissible for me"--but I will not be mastered by anything.
13
"Food for the stomach and the stomach for food"--but God will destroy them both. The body is not meant for sexual immorality, but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body.
14
By his power God raised the Lord from the dead, and he will raise us also.
15
Do you not know that your bodies are members of Christ himself ? Shall I then take the members of Christ and unite them with a prostitute? Never!
16
Do you not know that he who unites himself with a prostitute is one
with her in body? For it is said, "The two will become one flesh."
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But he who unites himself with the Lord is one with him in spirit.
18
Flee from sexual immorality. All other sins a man commits are outside his body, but he who sins sexually sins against his own body.
19
Do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit, who is in you, whom you have received from God? You are not your own;
20
you were bought at a price. Therefore honor God with your body.
(the following is from Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary -- www.christnotes.org)
"Commentary on 1 Corinthians 6:12-20
Some among the Corinthians seem to have been ready to say, All things
are lawful for me. This dangerous conceit St. Paul opposes. There is a
liberty wherewith Christ has made us free, in which we must stand fast.
But surely a Christian would never put himself into the power of any
bodily appetite. The body is for the Lord; is to be an instrument of
righteousness to holiness, therefore is never to be made an instrument
of sin. It is an honour to the body, that Jesus Christ was raised from
the dead; and it will be an honour to our bodies, that they will be
raised. The hope of a resurrection to glory, should keep Christians from
dishonouring their bodies by fleshly lusts. And if the soul be united
to Christ by faith, the whole man is become a member of his spiritual
body. Other vices may be conquered in fight; that here cautioned
against, only by flight. And vast multitudes are cut off by this vice in
its various forms and consequences. Its effects fall not only directly
upon the body, but often upon the mind. Our bodies have been redeemed
from deserved condemnation and hopeless slavery by the atoning sacrifice
of Christ. We are to be clean, as vessels fitted for our Master's use.
Being united to Christ as one spirit, and bought with a price of
unspeakable value, the believer should consider himself as wholly the
Lord's, by the strongest ties. May we make it our business, to the
latest day and hour of our lives, to glorify God with our bodies, and
with our spirits which are his."
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