1 Corinthians 6:15

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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!

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  • Rom 12:5 : 5 so we who are many are one body in Christ, and individually we are members who belong to one another.
  • 1 Cor 12:27 : 27 Now you are Christ’s body, and each of you is a member of it.
  • Eph 5:30 : 30 because we are members of his body.
  • Luke 20:16 : 16 He will come and destroy those tenants and give the vineyard to others.” When the people heard this, they said,“May this never happen!”
  • Eph 4:12 : 12 to equip the saints for the work of ministry, that is, to build up the body of Christ,
  • Eph 4:15-16 : 15 But practicing the truth in love, we will in all things grow up into Christ, who is the head. 16 From him the whole body grows, fitted and held together through every supporting ligament. As each one does its part, the body builds itself up in love.
  • 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).
  • Rom 3:3-4 : 3 What then? If some did not believe, does their unbelief nullify the faithfulness of God? 4 Absolutely not! Let God be proven true, and every human being shown up as a liar, just as it is written:“so that you will be justified in your words and will prevail when you are judged.”
  • Gal 2:17 : 17 But if while seeking to be justified in Christ we ourselves have also been found to be sinners, is Christ then one who encourages sin? Absolutely not!
  • Gal 3:21 : 21 Is the law therefore opposed to the promises of God? Absolutely not! For if a law had been given that was able to give life, then righteousness would certainly have come by the law.
  • Gal 6:14 : 14 But may I never boast except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, through which the world has been crucified to me, and I to the world.
  • Eph 1:22-23 : 22 And God put all things under Christ’s feet, and gave him to the church as head over all things. 23 Now the church is his body, the fullness of him who fills all in all.
  • 1 Cor 6:13 : 13 “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.
  • 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?
  • 1 Cor 11:3 : 3 But I want you to know that Christ is the head of every man, and the man is the head of a woman, and God is the head of Christ.
  • Rom 3:31 : 31 Do we then nullify the law through faith? Absolutely not! Instead we uphold the law.
  • Rom 6:2 : 2 Absolutely not! How can we who died to sin still live in it?
  • Rom 6:15 : 15 The Believer’s Enslavement to God’s Righteousness What then? Shall we sin because we are not under law but under grace? Absolutely not!
  • Rom 7:7 : 7 What shall we say then? Is the law sin? Absolutely not! Certainly, I would not have known sin except through the law. For indeed I would not have known what it means to desire something belonging to someone else if the law had not said,“Do not covet.”
  • Rom 7:13 : 13 Did that which is good, then, become death to me? Absolutely not! But sin, so that it would be shown to be sin, produced death in me through what is good, so that through the commandment sin would become utterly sinful.
  • Col 2:19 : 19 He has not held fast to the head from whom the whole body, supported and knit together through its ligaments and sinews, grows with a growth that is from God.
  • Gen 44:17 : 17 But Joseph said,“Far be it from me to do this! The man in whose hand the cup was found will become my slave, but the rest of you may go back to your father in peace.”
  • Rom 3:6 : 6 Absolutely not! For otherwise how could God judge the world?

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • 1 Cor 6:16-20
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    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.

  • 1 Cor 6:13-14
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    13“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.

    14Now God indeed raised the Lord and he will raise us by his power.

  • Eph 5:28-31
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    28In the same way husbands ought to love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself.

    29For no one has ever hated his own body, but he feeds it and takes care of it, just as Christ also does the church,

    30because we are members of his body.

    31For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and will be joined to his wife, and the two will become one flesh.

  • 1 Cor 3:16-17
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    16Do you not know that you are God’s temple and that God’s Spirit lives in you?

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

  • 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,

  • 1 Cor 12:14-15
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    14For in fact the body is not a single member, but many.

    15If the foot says,“Since I am not a hand, I am not part of the body,” it does not lose its membership in the body because of that.

  • 1 Cor 12:12
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    12Different Members in One Body For just as the body is one and yet has many members, and all the members of the body– though many– are one body, so too is Christ.

  • 1 Cor 12:27
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    27Now you are Christ’s body, and each of you is a member of it.

  • Rom 7:4
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    4So, 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 6:12-13
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    12Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal body so that you obey its desires,

    13and do not present your members to sin as instruments to be used for unrighteousness, but present yourselves to God as those who are alive from the dead and your members to God as instruments to be used for righteousness.

  • 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.

  • Rom 6:15-16
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    15The Believer’s Enslavement to God’s Righteousness What then? Shall we sin because we are not under law but under grace? Absolutely not!

    16Do you not know that if you present yourselves as obedient slaves, you are slaves of the one you obey, either of sin resulting in death, or obedience resulting in righteousness?

  • 2 Cor 6:14-17
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    14Unequal Partners Do not become partners with those who do not believe, for what partnership is there between righteousness and lawlessness, or what fellowship does light have with darkness?

    15And what agreement does Christ have with Beliar? Or what does a believer share in common with an unbeliever?

    16And what mutual agreement does the temple of God have with idols? For we are the temple of the living God, just as God said,“I will live in them and will walk among them, and I will be their God, and they will be my people.”

    17Therefore“come out from their midst, and be separate,” says the Lord,“and touch no unclean thing, and I will welcome you,

  • 1 Thess 4:3-5
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    3For this is God’s will: that you become holy, that you keep away from sexual immorality,

    4that each of you know how to possess his own body in holiness and honor,

    5not in lustful passion like the Gentiles who do not know God.

  • 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.

  • Rom 6:2
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    2Absolutely not! How can we who died to sin still live in it?

  • Rom 12:4-5
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    4For just as in one body we have many members, and not all the members serve the same function,

    5so we who are many are one body in Christ, and individually we are members who belong to one another.

  • 1 Cor 5:9-10
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    9I wrote you in my letter not to associate with sexually immoral people.

    10In no way did I mean the immoral people of this world, or the greedy and swindlers and idolaters, since you would then have to go out of the world.

  • 1 Cor 5:1
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    1Church Discipline It is actually reported that sexual immorality exists among you, the kind of immorality that is not permitted even among the Gentiles, so that someone is cohabiting with his father’s wife.

  • 1 Cor 6:11
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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.

  • 1 Cor 12:19-20
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    19If they were all the same member, where would the body be?

    20So now there are many members, but one body.

  • 2 Cor 11:2
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    2For 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.

  • Col 3:5
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    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 Cor 7:35
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    35I am saying this for your benefit, not to place a limitation on you, but so that without distraction you may give notable and constant service to the Lord.

  • 1 Cor 10:16
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    16Is not the cup of blessing that we bless a sharing in the blood of Christ? Is not the bread that we break a sharing in the body of Christ?

  • Heb 13:4
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    4Marriage must be honored among all and the marriage bed kept undefiled, for God will judge sexually immoral people and adulterers.

  • 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 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 5:6
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    6Your boasting is not good. Don’t you know that a little yeast affects the whole batch of dough?