1 Corinthians 6:13

KJV1611 – Modern English

Food for the stomach, and the stomach for food; 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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  • Linguistic Bible Translation from Source Texts

    Food is meant for the stomach and the stomach for food, but God will destroy both one and the other. The body, however, is not meant for sexual immorality but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body.

  • 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.

  • American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

    Meats{G1033} for the belly,{G2836} and{G2532} the belly{G2836} for meats:{G1033} but{G1161} God{G2316} shall bring to nought{G2673} both{G2532} it{G3778} and{G2532} them.{G5023} But{G235} the body{G4983} is not{G3756} for fornication,{G4202} but{G235} for the Lord;{G2962} and{G2532} the Lord{G2962} for the body:{G4983}

  • King James Version with Strong's Numbers

    Meats{G1033} for the belly{G2836}, and{G2532} the belly{G2836} for meats{G1033}: but{G1161} God{G2316} shall destroy{G2673}{(G5692)} both{G2532} it{G5026} and{G2532} them{G5023}. Now{G1161} the body{G4983} is not{G3756} for fornication{G4202}, but{G235} for the Lord{G2962}; and{G2532} the Lord{G2962} for the body{G4983}.

  • Tyndale Bible (1526/1534)

    Meates are ordeyned for the belly and the belly for meates: but God shall destroy bothe it and them. Let not the body be applied vnto fornicacion but vnto the Lorde and the Lorde vnto the body.

  • Coverdale Bible (1535)

    Meates are ordeyned for ye bely, & the bely for meates. But God shal destroye both it and them. The body belongeth not vnto whordome, but vnto the LORDE, and the LORDE vnto the body

  • Geneva Bible (1560)

    Meates are ordeined for the bellie, & the belly for the meates: but God shall destroy both it, and them. Nowe the bodie is not for fornication, but for the Lord, and the Lord for the bodie.

  • Bishops' Bible (1568)

    Meates are ordeyned for the belly, and the belly for meates: but God shall destroy both it, and them. Nowe the body is not for fornication: but for the Lorde, and the Lorde for the body.

  • Authorized King James Version (1611)

    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.

  • Webster's Bible (1833)

    "Foods for the belly, and the belly for foods," but God will bring to nothing both it and them. But the body is not for sexual immorality, but for the Lord; and the Lord for the body.

  • Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

    the meats `are' for the belly, and the belly for the meats. And God both this and these shall make useless; and the body `is' not for whoredom, but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body;

  • American Standard Version (1901)

    Meats for the belly, and the belly for meats: but God shall bring to nought both it and them. But the body is not for fornication, but for the Lord; and the Lord for the body:

  • American Standard Version (1901)

    Meats for the belly, and the belly for meats: but God shall bring to nought both it and them. But the body is not for fornication, but for the Lord; and the Lord for the body:

  • Bible in Basic English (1941)

    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:

  • World English Bible (2000)

    "Foods for the belly, and the belly for foods," but God will bring to nothing both it and them. But the body is not for sexual immorality, but for the Lord; and the Lord for the body.

  • NET Bible® (New English Translation)

    “Food is for the stomach and the stomach is for food, but God will do away with both.” The body is not for sexual immorality, but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body.

Referenced Verses

  • Matt 15:17 : 17 Do you not yet understand, that whatever enters in at the mouth goes into the belly, and is cast out into the waste?
  • 1 Cor 6:15 : 15 Do you not know that your bodies are the members of Christ? Shall I then take the members of Christ, and make them the members of a harlot? God forbid.
  • 1 Cor 6:19 : 19 What? Do you not know that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit which is in you, which you have from God, and you are not your own?
  • Eph 5:23 : 23 For the husband is the head of the wife, as Christ is also the head of the church: and he is the savior of the body.
  • 1 Cor 3:16 : 16 Do you not know that you are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwells in you?
  • 1 Thess 4:3-7 : 3 For this is the will of God, your sanctification, that you should abstain from fornication: 4 That every one of you should know how to possess his vessel in sanctification and honor; 5 Not in passionate lust, like the Gentiles who do not know God: 6 That no man go beyond and defraud his brother in any matter, because the Lord is the avenger of all such, as we also have forewarned you and testified. 7 For God has not called us unto uncleanness, but unto holiness.
  • Rom 6:12 : 12 Therefore, do not let sin reign in your mortal body, that you should obey its lusts.
  • Rom 7:4 : 4 Therefore, my brothers, you also have become dead to the law through the body of Christ; that you may be married to another, even to Him who is raised from the dead, that we should bear fruit to God.
  • Rom 12:1 : 1 I implore you therefore, brothers, by the mercies of God, that you present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your reasonable service.
  • Rom 14:7-9 : 7 For none of us lives to himself, and no one dies to himself. 8 For if we live, we live to the Lord; and if we die, we die to the Lord. Therefore, whether we live or die, we belong to the Lord. 9 For this reason Christ died and rose and lived again, that He might be Lord of both the dead and the living.
  • Rom 14:17 : 17 For the kingdom of God is not food and drink, but righteousness and peace and joy in the Holy Spirit.
  • Matt 15:20 : 20 These are the things which defile a man: but to eat with unwashed hands does not defile a man.
  • Mark 7:19 : 19 Because it does not enter his heart but his stomach, and is eliminated, purging all foods?
  • John 6:27 : 27 Do not labor for the food which perishes, but for the food which endures to everlasting life, which the Son of Man shall give to you: for him God the Father has sealed.
  • John 6:49 : 49 Your fathers ate manna in the wilderness, and are dead.
  • Col 2:22-23 : 22 Which all concern things which perish with the using, according to the commandments and doctrines of men? 23 These things indeed have an appearance of wisdom in self-imposed religion, false humility, and neglect of the body, but are of no value against the indulgence of the flesh.
  • 1 Cor 10:3-5 : 3 And all ate the same spiritual food; 4 And all drank the same spiritual drink: for they drank from 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 he died for all, that those who live should no longer live for themselves, but for him who died for them and rose again.
  • 2 Cor 11:2 : 2 For I am jealous for you with godly jealousy: for I have betrothed you to one husband, that I may present you as a pure virgin to Christ.

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