Verse 13

"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.

Referenced Verses

  • Matt 15:17 : 17 Don't you understand that whatever goes into the mouth passes into the belly, and then out of the body?
  • 1 Cor 6:15 : 15 Don't you know that your bodies are members of Christ? Shall I then take the members of Christ, and make them members of a prostitute? May it never be!
  • 1 Cor 6:19 : 19 Or don't you know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit which is in you, which you have from God? You are not your own,
  • Eph 5:23 : 23 For the husband is the head of the wife, and Christ also is the head of the assembly, being himself the savior of the body.
  • 1 Cor 3:16 : 16 Don't you know that you are a temple of God, and that God's Spirit lives in you?
  • 1 Thess 4:3-7 : 3 For this is the will of God: your sanctification, that you abstain from sexual immorality, 4 that each one of you know how to possess himself of his own vessel in sanctification and honor, 5 not in the passion of lust, even as the Gentiles who don't know God; 6 that no one should take advantage of and wrong a brother or sister in this matter; because the Lord is an avenger in all these things, as also we forewarned you and testified. 7 For God called us not for uncleanness, but in sanctification.
  • Rom 6:12 : 12 Therefore don't let sin reign in your mortal body, that you should obey it in its lusts.
  • Rom 7:4 : 4 Therefore, my brothers, you also were made dead to the law through the body of Christ, that you would be joined to another, to him who was raised from the dead, that we might bring forth fruit to God.
  • Rom 12:1 : 1 Therefore I urge you, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your spiritual service.
  • Rom 14:7-9 : 7 For none of us lives to himself, and none dies to himself. 8 For if we live, we live to the Lord. Or if we die, we die to the Lord. If therefore we live or die, we are the Lord's. 9 For to this end Christ died, 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 eating and drinking, but righteousness, peace, and joy in the Holy Spirit.
  • Matt 15:20 : 20 These are the things which defile the man; but to eat with unwashed hands doesn't defile the man."
  • Mark 7:19 : 19 because it doesn't go into his heart, but into his stomach, then into the latrine, thus purifying all foods?"
  • John 6:27 : 27 Don't work for the food which perishes, but for the food which remains to eternal life, which the Son of Man will give to you. For God the Father has sealed him."
  • John 6:49 : 49 Your fathers ate the manna in the wilderness, and they died.
  • Col 2:22-23 : 22 (all of which perish with use), according to the precepts and doctrines of men? 23 Which things indeed appear like wisdom in self-imposed worship, and humility, and severity to the body; but aren't of any 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 of a spiritual rock that followed them, and the rock was Christ. 5 However with most of them, God was not well pleased, for they were overthrown in the wilderness.
  • 2 Cor 5:15 : 15 He died for all, that those who live should no longer live to themselves, but to him who for their sakes died and rose again.
  • 2 Cor 11:2 : 2 For I am jealous over you with a godly jealousy. For I married you to one husband, that I might present you as a pure virgin to Christ.