1 Corinthians 6:13
Food of all kinds is meant for the stomach, and the stomach is meant for food, and God will cause both of them to perish. Yet the body does not exist for the purpose of fornication, but for the Master's service, and the Master exists for the body;
Weymouth NT (1912)
In The King James Version
In Context
14and as God by His power raised the Master to life, so He will also raise us up.
Cross References
Matthew 15:17Do you not understand that whatever enters the mouth passes into the stomach and is afterwards ejected from the body?
Mark 7:19because it does not go into his heart, but into his stomach, and passes away ejected from him?" By these words Jesus pronounced all kinds of food clean.
John 6:49Your forefathers ate the manna in the Desert, and they died.
Romans 7:4So, my brethren, to you also the Law died through the incarnation of Christ, that you might be wedded to Another, namely to Him who rose from the dead in order that we might yield fruit to God.
Romans 14:7For not one of us lives to himself, and not one dies to himself.
1 Corinthians 3:16Do you not know that you are God's Sanctuary, and that the Spirit of God has His home 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 →