1 Corinthians 6:13
“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.
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In The King James Version
In Context
14Now God raised up the Lord, and will also raise us up by his power.
Cross References
Matthew 15:17Don’t you understand that whatever goes into the mouth passes into the belly and then out of the body?
Mark 7:19because it doesn’t go into his heart, but into his stomach, then into the latrine, making all foods clean?”
John 6:49Your fathers ate the manna in the wilderness and they died.
Romans 7:4Therefore, 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 produce fruit to God.
Romans 14:7For none of us lives to himself, and none dies to himself.
1 Corinthians 3:16Don’t you know that you are God’s temple and that God’s Spirit lives in you?
Matthew Henry on 1 Corinthians 6:13-20
Against Fornication. ( a. d. 57.) 12 All things are lawful unto me, but all things are not expedient: all things are lawful for me, but I will not be brought under the power of any. 13 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. 14 And God hath both raised up the Lord, and will also raise up us by his own power. 15 Know ye not that your bodies are the members of Christ? shall I then take the… Read the whole commentary →