1 Corinthians 6:13
"Food is meant for the stomach, and the stomach for food"? Yes, but God will soon put an end both to the one and to the other. The body, however, exists not for immorality, but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body;
Montgomery New Testament
In The King James Version
In Context
14and the God who raised up our Lord will up-raise us also by his mighty power.
Cross References
Matthew 15:17"Do you not know how all that goes into the mouth passes into the stomach and is afterward evacuated;
Mark 7:19because it does not go into his heart, but into his belly, and passes away, ejected from him?" By these words he pronounced all foods clean.
John 6:49"Your fathers ate the manna in the wilderness; yet they died.
Romans 7:4So also, my brother, you were made dead to the Law through the body of Christ; that you should be joined to another, even to Him who was raised from the dead that we might bear fruit for God.
Romans 14:7For not one of us lives unto himself, and not one dies unto himself.
1 Corinthians 3:16Do you not know what you are God’s sanctuary, and that the Spirit of God is dwelling within 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 →