¹²“I have the right to do anything,” you say—but not everything is beneficial.^x “I have the right to do anything”—but I will not be mastered by anything. ¹³You say, “Food for the stomach and the stomach for food, and God will destroy them both.”^y The body, however, is not meant for sexual immorality but for the Lord,^z and the Lord for the body. ¹⁴By his power God raised the Lord from the dead,^a and he will raise us also.^b ¹⁵Do you not know that your bodies are members of Christ himself?^c Shall I then take the members of Christ and unite them with a prostitute? Never! ¹⁶Do 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.”^b^d ¹⁷But whoever is united with the Lord is one with him in spirit.^c^e

¹⁸Flee from sexual immorality.^f All other sins a person commits are outside the body, but whoever sins sexually, sins against their own body.^g ¹⁹Do you not know that your bodies are temples^h of the Holy Spirit, who is in you, whom you have received from God? You are not your own;ⁱ ²⁰you were bought at a price.^j Therefore honor God with your bodies.^k

Read in Logos

1 Corinthians 6:19–20: Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit within you, whom you have from God? You are not your own, for you were bought with a price. So glorify God in your body.

Footnotes

b Gen. 2:24
cOr in the Spirit

Cross references

x 1 Co 10:23
y Col 2:22
zver 15, 19; Ro 12:1
aSee Ac 2:24
bSee Ro 6:5; Eph 1:19, 20; 1 Th 4:16
cSee Ro 12:5
d Ge 2:24; Mt 19:5; Eph 5:31
e Jn 17:21–23; Ro 8:9–11; Gal 2:20
fver 9; 1 Co 5:1; 2 Co 12:21; Gal 5:19; Eph 5:3; 1 Th 4:3, 4; Heb 13:4
g Ro 6:12
h Jn 2:21
i Ro 14:7, 8
j Ps 74:2; See Mt 20:28; Ac 20:28; 1 Co 7:23; Rev 5:9; 14:4
k Php 1:20