1 Corinthians 6:20

Bible in Basic English (1941)

For a payment has been made for you: let God be honoured in your body.

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Referenced Verses

  • 1 Cor 7:23 : 23 It is the Lord who has made payment for you: be not servants of men.
  • Rom 12:1 : 1 For this reason I make request to you, brothers, by the mercies of God, that you will give your bodies as a living offering, holy, pleasing to God, which is the worship it is right for you to give him.
  • 1 Pet 1:18 : 18 Being conscious that you have been made free from that foolish way of life which was your heritage from your fathers, not through a payment of things like silver or gold which come to destruction,
  • 1 Pet 2:9 : 9 But you are a special people, a holy nation, priests and kings, a people given up completely to God, so that you may make clear the virtues of him who took you out of the dark into the light of heaven.
  • Acts 20:28 : 28 Give attention to yourselves, and to all the flock which the Holy Spirit has given into your care, to give food to the church of God, for which he gave his blood.
  • Phil 1:20 : 20 In the measure of my strong hope and belief that in nothing will I be put to shame, but that without fear, as at all times, so now will Christ have glory in my body, by life or by death.
  • 2 Pet 2:1 : 1 But there were false prophets among the people, as there will be false teachers among you, who will secretly put forward wrong teachings for your destruction, even turning away from the Lord who gave himself for them; whose destruction will come quickly, and they themselves will be the cause of it.
  • Rev 5:9 : 9 And their voices are sounding in a new song, saying, It is right for you to take the book and to make it open: for you were put to death and have made an offering to God of your blood for men of every tribe, and language, and people, and nation,
  • Heb 9:12 : 12 And has gone once and for ever into the holy place, having got eternal salvation, not through the blood of goats and young oxen, but through his blood.
  • 1 Cor 10:31 : 31 So then, if it is a question of food or drink, or any other thing, whatever you do, do all to the glory of God.
  • Rom 6:19 : 19 I am using words in the way of men, because your flesh is feeble: as you gave your bodies as servants to what is unclean, and to evil to do evil, so now give them as servants to righteousness to do what is holy.
  • Matt 5:16 : 16 Even so let your light be shining before men, so that they may see your good works and give glory to your Father in heaven.
  • Gal 3:13 : 13 Christ has made us free from the curse of the law, having become a curse for us: because it is said in the Writings, A curse on everyone who is put to death by hanging on a tree:

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • 1 Cor 6:11-19
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    11 And such were some of you; but you have been washed, you have been made holy, you have been given righteousness in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and in the Spirit of our God.

    12 I am free to do all things; but not all things are wise. I am free to do all things; but I will not let myself come under the power of any.

    13 Food is for the stomach and the stomach for food, and God will put an end to them together. But the body is not for the desires of the flesh, but for the Lord; and the Lord for the body:

    14 And God who made the Lord Jesus come back from the dead will do the same for us by his power.

    15 Do you not see that your bodies are part of the body of Christ? how then may I take what is a part of the body of Christ and make it a part of the body of a loose woman? such a thing may not be.

    16 Or do you not see that he who is joined to a loose woman is one body with her? for God has said, The two of them will become one flesh.

    17 But he who is united to the Lord is one spirit.

    18 Keep away from the desires of the flesh. Every sin which a man does is outside of the body; but he who goes after the desires of the flesh does evil to his body.

    19 Or are you not conscious that your body is a house for the Holy Spirit which is in you, and which has been given to you by God? and you are not the owners of yourselves;

  • 1 Cor 7:23
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    23 It is the Lord who has made payment for you: be not servants of men.

  • 1 Cor 3:16-17
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    16 Do you not see that you are God's holy house, and that the Spirit of God has his place in you?

    17 If anyone makes the house of God unclean, God will put an end to him; for the house of God is holy, and you are his house.

  • Rom 12:1-2
    2 verses
    73%

    1 For this reason I make request to you, brothers, by the mercies of God, that you will give your bodies as a living offering, holy, pleasing to God, which is the worship it is right for you to give him.

    2 And let not your behaviour be like that of this world, but be changed and made new in mind, so that by experience you may have knowledge of the good and pleasing and complete purpose of God.

  • Rom 6:11-13
    3 verses
    72%

    11 Even so see yourselves as dead to sin, but living to God in Christ Jesus.

    12 For this cause do not let sin be ruling in your body which is under the power of death, so that you give way to its desires;

    13 And do not give your bodies to sin as the instruments of wrongdoing, but give yourselves to God, as those who are living from the dead, and your bodies as instruments of righteousness to God.

  • 1 Cor 10:31
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    31 So then, if it is a question of food or drink, or any other thing, whatever you do, do all to the glory of God.

  • Rom 6:18-20
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    72%

    18 And being made free from sin you have been made the servants of righteousness.

    19 I am using words in the way of men, because your flesh is feeble: as you gave your bodies as servants to what is unclean, and to evil to do evil, so now give them as servants to righteousness to do what is holy.

    20 When you were servants of sin you were free from righteousness.

  • 1 Cor 3:23
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    23 And you are Christ's; and Christ is God's.

  • Rom 6:16
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    16 Are you not conscious that you are the servants of him to whom you give yourselves to do his desire? if to sin, the end being death, or if to do the desire of God, the end being righteousness.

  • 1 Pet 1:18
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    18 Being conscious that you have been made free from that foolish way of life which was your heritage from your fathers, not through a payment of things like silver or gold which come to destruction,

  • 2 Cor 6:16
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    16 And what agreement has the house of God with images? for we are a house of the living God; even as God has said, I will be living among them, and walking with them; and I will be their God, and they will be my people.

  • Rom 8:9-13
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    9 You are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if the Spirit of God is in you. But if any man has not the Spirit of Christ he is not one of his.

    10 And if Christ is in you, the body is dead because of sin, but the Spirit is life because of righteousness.

    11 But if the Spirit of him who made Jesus come again from the dead is in you, he who made Christ Jesus come again from the dead will in the same way, through his Spirit which is in you, give life to your bodies which now are under the power of death.

    12 So then, my brothers, we are in debt, not to the flesh to be living in the way of the flesh:

    13 For if you go in the way of the flesh, death will come on you; but if by the Spirit you put to death the works of the body, you will have life.

  • 1 Cor 12:27
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    27 Now you are the body of Christ, and every one of you the separate parts of it.

  • Rom 6:22
    70%

    22 But now, being free from sin, and having been made servants to God, you have your fruit in that which is holy, and the end is eternal life.

  • 1 Cor 12:12-14
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    69%

    12 For as the body is one, and has a number of parts, and all the parts make one body, so is Christ.

    13 For through the baptism of the one Spirit we were all formed into one body, Jews or Greeks, servants or free men, and were all made full of the same Spirit.

    14 For the body is not one part, but a number of parts.

  • Rom 6:6
    69%

    6 Being conscious that our old man was put to death on the cross with him, so that the body of sin might be put away, and we might no longer be servants to sin.

  • Eph 5:30
    68%

    30 Because we are parts of his body.

  • 1 Thess 4:4
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    4 So that every one of you may keep his body holy and in honour;

  • 1 Cor 1:30
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    30 But God has given you a place in Christ Jesus, through whom God has given us wisdom and righteousness and salvation, and made us holy:

  • 1 Cor 12:24
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    24 But those parts of the body which are beautiful have no need of such care: and so the body has been joined together by God in such a way as to give more honour to those parts which had need of it;

  • 1 Thess 5:23
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    23 And may the God of peace himself make you holy in every way; and may your spirit and soul and body be free from all sin at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.

  • Col 3:3
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    3 For your life on earth is done, and you have a secret life with Christ in God.

  • 2 Cor 5:5
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    5 Now he who has made us for this very thing is God, who has given us the Spirit as a witness of what is to come.

  • Rom 15:6
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    6 So that with one mouth you may give glory to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ.

  • 1 Thess 2:20
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    20 For you are our glory and our joy.

  • 2 Cor 4:10
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    10 In our bodies there is ever the mark of the death of Jesus, so that the life of Jesus may be seen in our bodies.

  • Eph 1:14
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    14 Which is the first-fruit of our heritage, till God gets back that which is his, to the praise of his glory.

  • 1 Cor 15:44
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    44 It is planted a natural body; it comes again as a body of the spirit. If there is a natural body, there is equally a body of the spirit.

  • 1 Cor 10:26
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    26 For the earth is the Lord's and all things in it.

  • 1 Cor 12:20
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    20 But now they are all different parts, but one body.