1 Corinthians 6:13

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.

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Referenced Verses

  • Matt 15:17 : 17 Don’t you understand that whatever goes into the mouth enters the stomach and then passes out into the sewer?
  • 1 Cor 6:15 : 15 Do you not know that your bodies are members of Christ? Should I take the members of Christ and make them members of a prostitute? Never!
  • 1 Cor 6:19 : 19 Or do you not know that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have from God, and you are not your own?
  • Eph 5:23 : 23 because the husband is the head of the wife as also Christ is the head of the church(he himself being the savior of the body).
  • 1 Cor 3:16 : 16 Do you not know that you are God’s temple and that God’s Spirit lives in you?
  • 1 Thess 4:3-7 : 3 For this is God’s will: that you become holy, that you keep away from sexual immorality, 4 that each of you know how to possess his own body in holiness and honor, 5 not in lustful passion like the Gentiles who do not know God. 6 In this matter no one should violate the rights of his brother or take advantage of him, because the Lord is the avenger in all these cases, as we also told you earlier and warned you solemnly. 7 For God did not call us to impurity but in holiness.
  • Rom 6:12 : 12 Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal body so that you obey its desires,
  • Rom 7:4 : 4 So, my brothers and sisters, you also died to the law through the body of Christ, so that you could be joined to another, to the one who was raised from the dead, to bear fruit to God.
  • Rom 12:1 : 1 Consecration of the Believer’s Life Therefore I exhort you, brothers and sisters, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a sacrifice– alive, holy, and pleasing to God– which is your reasonable service.
  • Rom 14:7-9 : 7 For none of us lives for himself and none dies for himself. 8 If we live, we live for the Lord; if we die, we die for the Lord. Therefore, whether we live or die, we are the Lord’s. 9 For this reason Christ died and returned to life, so that he may be the Lord of both the dead and the living.
  • Rom 14:17 : 17 For the kingdom of God does not consist of food and drink, but righteousness, peace, and joy in the Holy Spirit.
  • Matt 15:20 : 20 These are the things that defile a person; it is not eating with unwashed hands that defiles a person.”
  • Mark 7:19 : 19 For it does not enter his heart but his stomach, and then goes out into the sewer.”(This means all foods are clean.)
  • John 6:27 : 27 Do not work for the food that disappears, but for the food that remains to eternal life– the food which the Son of Man will give to you. For God the Father has put his seal of approval on him.”
  • John 6:49 : 49 Your ancestors ate the manna in the wilderness, and they died.
  • Col 2:22-23 : 22 These are all destined to perish with use, founded as they are on human commands and teachings. 23 Even though they have the appearance of wisdom with their self-imposed worship and humility achieved by an unsparing treatment of the body– a wisdom with no true value– they in reality result in fleshly indulgence.
  • 1 Cor 10:3-5 : 3 and all ate the same spiritual food, 4 and all drank the same spiritual drink. For they were all drinking from the spiritual rock that followed them, and the rock was Christ. 5 But God was not pleased with most of them, for they were cut down in the wilderness.
  • 2 Cor 5:15 : 15 And he died for all so that those who live should no longer live for themselves but for him who died for them and was raised.
  • 2 Cor 11:2 : 2 For I am jealous for you with godly jealousy, because I promised you in marriage to one husband, to present you as a pure virgin to Christ.

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  • 1 Cor 6:11-12
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    11Some of you once lived this way. But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God.

    12Flee Sexual Immorality“All things are lawful for me”– but not everything is beneficial.“All things are lawful for me”– but I will not be controlled by anything.

  • 1 Cor 6:14-20
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    14Now God indeed raised the Lord and he will raise us by his power.

    15Do you not know that your bodies are members of Christ? Should I take the members of Christ and make them members of a prostitute? Never!

    16Or do you not know that anyone who is united with a prostitute is one body with her? For it is said,“The two will become one flesh.”

    17But the one united with the Lord is one spirit with him.

    18Flee sexual immorality!“Every sin a person commits is outside of the body”– but the immoral person sins against his own body.

    19Or do you not know that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have from God, and you are not your own?

    20For you were bought at a price. Therefore glorify God with your body.

  • Rom 14:20-21
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    20Do not destroy the work of God for the sake of food. For although all things are clean, it is wrong to cause anyone to stumble by what you eat.

    21It is good not to eat meat or drink wine or to do anything that causes your brother to stumble.

  • 1 Cor 8:8
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    8Now food will not bring us close to God. We are no worse if we do not eat and no better if we do.

  • Rom 6:12
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    12Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal body so that you obey its desires,

  • 1 Thess 4:3
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    3For this is God’s will: that you become holy, that you keep away from sexual immorality,

  • Phil 3:19
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    19Their end is destruction, their god is the belly, they exult in their shame, and they think about earthly things.

  • Rom 14:15
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    15For if your brother or sister is distressed because of what you eat, you are no longer walking in love. Do not destroy by your food someone for whom Christ died.

  • Rom 1:24
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    24Therefore God gave them over in the desires of their hearts to impurity, to dishonor their bodies among themselves.

  • 1 Cor 3:17
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    17If someone destroys God’s temple, God will destroy him. For God’s temple is holy, which is what you are.

  • Rom 13:14
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    14Instead, put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the flesh to arouse its desires.

  • 1 Cor 8:13
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    13For this reason, if food causes my brother or sister to sin, I will never eat meat again, so that I may not cause one of them to sin.

  • 1 Cor 9:27
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    27Instead I subdue my body and make it my slave, so that after preaching to others I myself will not be disqualified.

  • 1 Cor 7:4-5
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    4It is not the wife who has the rights to her own body, but the husband. In the same way, it is not the husband who has the rights to his own body, but the wife.

    5Do not deprive each other, except by mutual agreement for a specified time, so that you may devote yourselves to prayer. Then resume your relationship, so that Satan may not tempt you because of your lack of self-control.

  • 1 Tim 4:3
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    3They will prohibit marriage and require abstinence from foods that God created to be received with thanksgiving by those who believe and know the truth.

  • Rom 8:5-6
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    5For those who live according to the flesh have their outlook shaped by the things of the flesh, but those who live according to the Spirit have their outlook shaped by the things of the Spirit.

    6For the outlook of the flesh is death, but the outlook of the Spirit is life and peace,

  • Col 2:23
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    23Even though they have the appearance of wisdom with their self-imposed worship and humility achieved by an unsparing treatment of the body– a wisdom with no true value– they in reality result in fleshly indulgence.

  • Mark 7:19
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    19For it does not enter his heart but his stomach, and then goes out into the sewer.”(This means all foods are clean.)

  • 1 Pet 4:2
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    2in that he spends the rest of his time on earth concerned about the will of God and not human desires.

  • 1 Cor 10:23
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    23Live to Glorify God“Everything is lawful,” but not everything is beneficial.“Everything is lawful,” but not everything builds others up.

  • 1 Cor 12:14
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    14For in fact the body is not a single member, but many.

  • 1 Cor 12:24
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    24but our presentable members do not need this. Instead, God has blended together the body, giving greater honor to the lesser member,

  • 1 Cor 10:25-26
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    25Eat anything that is sold in the marketplace without questions of conscience,

    26for the earth and its abundance are the Lord’s.

  • Rom 14:6
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    6The one who observes the day does it for the Lord. The one who eats, eats for the Lord because he gives thanks to God, and the one who abstains from eating abstains for the Lord, and he gives thanks to God.

  • Rom 14:17
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    17For the kingdom of God does not consist of food and drink, but righteousness, peace, and joy in the Holy Spirit.

  • Gal 5:16-17
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    16But I say, live by the Spirit and you will not carry out the desires of the flesh.

    17For the flesh has desires that are opposed to the Spirit, and the Spirit has desires that are opposed to the flesh, for these are in opposition to each other, so that you cannot do what you want.

  • Col 3:5
    69%

    5So put to death whatever in your nature belongs to the earth: sexual immorality, impurity, shameful passion, evil desire, and greed which is idolatry.

  • 1 Tim 4:8
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    8For“physical exercise has some value, but godliness is valuable in every way. It holds promise for the present life and for the life to come.”

  • Rom 6:19
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    19(I am speaking in human terms because of the weakness of your flesh.) For just as you once presented your members as slaves to impurity and lawlessness leading to more lawlessness, so now present your members as slaves to righteousness leading to sanctification.

  • Gal 5:19
    69%

    19Now the works of the flesh are obvious: sexual immorality, impurity, depravity,

  • Gal 6:8
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    8because the person who sows to his own flesh will reap corruption from the flesh, but the one who sows to the Spirit will reap eternal life from the Spirit.

  • Eph 5:30
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    30because we are members of his body.

  • 1 Cor 11:29
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    29For the one who eats and drinks without careful regard for the body eats and drinks judgment against himself.

  • Rom 14:2
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    2One person believes in eating everything, but the weak person eats only vegetables.

  • 1 Cor 6:9
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    9Do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived! The sexually immoral, idolaters, adulterers, passive homosexual partners, practicing homosexuals,

  • Rom 8:13
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    13(for if you live according to the flesh, you will die), but if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body you will live.

  • Matt 15:17
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    17Don’t you understand that whatever goes into the mouth enters the stomach and then passes out into the sewer?

  • 1 Cor 11:21
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    21For when it is time to eat, everyone proceeds with his own supper. One is hungry and another becomes drunk.