1 Corinthians 6:13

King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

Meats for the belly, and the belly for meats: but God shall destroy both it and them. Now the body is not for fornication, but for the Lord; and the Lord for the body.

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  • Matt 15:17 : 17 Do not ye yet understand, that whatsoever entereth in at the mouth goeth into the belly, and is cast out into the draught?
  • 1 Cor 6:15 : 15 Know ye not that your bodies are the members of Christ? shall I then take the members of Christ, and make them the members of an harlot? God forbid.
  • 1 Cor 6:19 : 19 What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own?
  • Eph 5:23 : 23 For the husband is the head of the wife, even as Christ is the head of the church: and he is the saviour of the body.
  • 1 Cor 3:16 : 16 Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you?
  • 1 Thess 4:3-7 : 3 For this is the will of God, even your sanctification, that ye should abstain from fornication: 4 That every one of you should know how to possess his vessel in sanctification and honour; 5 Not in the lust of concupiscence, even as the Gentiles which know not God: 6 That no man go beyond and defraud his brother in any matter: because that the Lord is the avenger of all such, as we also have forewarned you and testified. 7 For God hath not called us unto uncleanness, but unto holiness.
  • Rom 6:12 : 12 Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, that ye should obey it in the lusts thereof.
  • Rom 7:4 : 4 Wherefore, my brethren, ye also are become dead to the law by the body of Christ; that ye should be married to another, even to him who is raised fm the dead, that we should bring forth fruit unto God.
  • Rom 12:1 : 1 I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service.
  • Rom 14:7-9 : 7 For none of us liveth to himself, and no man dieth to himself. 8 For whether we live, we live unto the Lord; and whether we die, we die unto the Lord: whether we live therefore, or die, we are the Lord's. 9 For to this end Christ both died, and se, and revived, that he might be Lord both of the dead and living.
  • Rom 14:17 : 17 For the kingdom of God is not meat and drink; but righteousness, and peace, and joy in the Holy Ghost.
  • Matt 15:20 : 20 These are the things which defile a man: but to eat with unwashen hands defileth not a man.
  • Mark 7:19 : 19 Because it entereth not into his heart, but into the belly, and goeth out into the draught, purging all meats?
  • John 6:27 : 27 Labour not for the meat which perisheth, but for that meat which endureth unto everlasting life, which the Son of man shall give unto you: for him hath God the Father sealed.
  • John 6:49 : 49 Your fathers did eat manna in the wilderness, and are dead.
  • Col 2:22-23 : 22 Which all are to perish with the using;) after the commandments and doctrines of men? 23 Which things have indeed a shew of wisdom in will worship, and humility, and neglecting of the body; not in any honour to the satisfying of the flesh.
  • 1 Cor 10:3-5 : 3 And did all eat the same spiritual meat; 4 And did all drink the same spiritual drink: for they drank of that spiritual Rock that followed them: and that Rock was Christ. 5 But with many of them God was not well pleased: for they were overthrown in the wilderness.
  • 2 Cor 5:15 : 15 And that he died for all, that they which live should not henceforth live unto themselves, but unto him which died for them, and rose again.
  • 2 Cor 11:2 : 2 For I am jealous over you with godly jealousy: for I have espoused you to one husband, that I may present you as a chaste virgin to Christ.

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    16What? know ye not that he which is joined to an harlot is one body? for two, saith he, shall be one flesh.

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