1 Corinthians 6:20

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

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Referenced Verses

  • 1 Cor 7:23 : 23 You were bought with a price. Do not become slaves of men.
  • 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.
  • 1 Pet 1:18 : 18 You know that from your empty way of life inherited from your ancestors you were ransomed– not by perishable things like silver or gold,
  • 1 Pet 2:9 : 9 But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people of his own, so that you may proclaim the virtues of the one who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light.
  • Acts 20:28 : 28 Watch out for yourselves and for all the flock of which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers, to shepherd the church of God that he obtained with the blood of his own Son.
  • Phil 1:20 : 20 My confident hope is that I will in no way be ashamed but that with complete boldness, even now as always, Christ will be exalted in my body, whether I live or die.
  • 2 Pet 2:1 : 1 The False Teachers’ Ungodly Lifestyle But false prophets arose among the people, just as there will be false teachers among you. These false teachers will infiltrate your midst with destructive heresies, even to the point of denying the Master who bought them. As a result, they will bring swift destruction on themselves.
  • Rev 5:9 : 9 They were singing a new song:“You are worthy to take the scroll and to open its seals because you were killed, and at the cost of your own blood you have purchased for God persons from every tribe, language, people, and nation.
  • Heb 9:12 : 12 and he entered once for all into the most holy place not by the blood of goats and calves but by his own blood, and so he himself secured eternal redemption.
  • 1 Cor 10:31 : 31 So whether you eat or drink, or whatever you do, do everything for the glory of God.
  • Rom 6:19 : 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.
  • Matt 5:16 : 16 In the same way, let your light shine before people, so that they can see your good deeds and give honor to your Father in heaven.
  • Gal 3:13 : 13 Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law by becoming a curse for us(because it is written,“Cursed is everyone who hangs on a tree”)

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • 1 Cor 6:11-19
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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.

    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.

    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?

  • 1 Cor 7:23
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    23You were bought with a price. Do not become slaves of men.

  • 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.

  • Rom 12:1-2
    2 verses
    73%

    1Consecration 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.

    2Do not be conformed to this present world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may test and approve what is the will of God– what is good and well-pleasing and perfect.

  • Rom 6:11-13
    3 verses
    72%

    11So you too consider yourselves dead to sin, but alive to God in Christ Jesus.

    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 10:31
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    31So whether you eat or drink, or whatever you do, do everything for the glory of God.

  • Rom 6:18-20
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    18and having been freed from sin, you became enslaved to righteousness.

    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.

    20For when you were slaves of sin, you were free with regard to righteousness.

  • 1 Cor 3:23
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    23and you belong to Christ, and Christ belongs to God.

  • Rom 6:16
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    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?

  • 1 Pet 1:18
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    18You know that from your empty way of life inherited from your ancestors you were ransomed– not by perishable things like silver or gold,

  • 2 Cor 6:16
    71%

    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.”

  • Rom 8:9-13
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    9You, however, are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if indeed the Spirit of God lives in you. Now if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, this person does not belong to him.

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

    11Moreover if the Spirit of the one who raised Jesus from the dead lives in you, the one who raised Christ from the dead will also make your mortal bodies alive through his Spirit who lives in you.

    12So then, brothers and sisters, we are under obligation, not to the flesh, to live according to the flesh

    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.

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

  • Rom 6:22
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    22But now, freed from sin and enslaved to God, you have your benefit leading to sanctification, and the end is eternal life.

  • 1 Cor 12:12-14
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    69%

    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.

    13For in one Spirit we were all baptized into one body. Whether Jews or Greeks or slaves or free, we were all made to drink of the one Spirit.

    14For in fact the body is not a single member, but many.

  • Rom 6:6
    69%

    6We know that our old man was crucified with him so that the body of sin would no longer dominate us, so that we would no longer be enslaved to sin.

  • Eph 5:30
    68%

    30because we are members of his body.

  • 1 Thess 4:4
    68%

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

  • 1 Cor 1:30
    68%

    30He is the reason you have a relationship with Christ Jesus, who became for us wisdom from God, and righteousness and sanctification and redemption,

  • 1 Cor 12:24
    68%

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

  • 1 Thess 5:23
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    23Conclusion Now may the God of peace himself make you completely holy and may your spirit and soul and body be kept entirely blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.

  • Col 3:3
    68%

    3for you have died and your life is hidden with Christ in God.

  • 2 Cor 5:5
    68%

    5Now the one who prepared us for this very purpose is God, who gave us the Spirit as a down payment.

  • Rom 15:6
    68%

    6so that together you may with one voice glorify the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ.

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

  • 2 Cor 4:10
    67%

    10always carrying around in our body the death of Jesus, so that the life of Jesus may also be made visible in our body.

  • Eph 1:14
    67%

    14who is the down payment of our inheritance, until the redemption of God’s own possession, to the praise of his glory.

  • 1 Cor 15:44
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    44it is sown a natural body, it is raised a spiritual body. If there is a natural body, there is also a spiritual body.

  • 1 Cor 10:26
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    26for the earth and its abundance are the Lord’s.

  • 1 Cor 12:20
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    20So now there are many members, but one body.