Honor God in the Body

Disputes, Washing, and Bodily Dignity · 1 Corinthians 6

Story guide: Paul argues that bodily freedom is not license to be mastered by anything. The body belongs to the Lord and should be honored.

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12“All things are lawful for me,” but not all things are beneficial. “All things are lawful for me,” but I will not be mastered by anything.

13Food is for the stomach, and the stomach for food—but God will do away with both it and them. But the body is not for sexual immorality, but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body.

14And God raised the Lord and will also raise us by his power.

15Do you not know that your bodies are members of Messiah? Shall I then take the members of Messiah and make them members of a prostitute? May it never be.

16Or do you not know that the one who joins himself to a prostitute is one body with her? For, as he says, “The two will become one flesh.”

17But the one who joins himself to the Lord is one spirit with him.

18Flee sexual immorality. Every sin that a person may commit is outside the body, but the one who commits sexual immorality sins against his own body.

19Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit within you, whom you have from God? And you are not your own,

20For you were bought with a price; therefore glorify God in your body.

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