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1 Corinthians 6:13

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Sexual Immorality

12“Everything is permissible for me”–but not everything is beneficial. “Everything is permissible for me”–but I will not be mastered by anything.

13“Food for the stomach and the stomach for food”–but God will destroy them both. The body is not meant for sexual immorality, but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body.

14By his power God raised the Lord from the dead, and he will raise us also.15Do you not know that your bodies are members of Christ himself? Shall I then take the members of Christ and unite them with a prostitute? Never!16Do you not know that he who unites himself with a prostitute is one with her in body? For it is said, “The two will become one flesh.”Gen. 2:2417But he who unites himself with the Lord is one with him in spirit.

18Flee from sexual immorality. All other sins a man commits are outside his body, but he who sins sexually sins against his own body.19Do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit, who is in you, whom you have received from God? You are not your own;20you were bought at a price. Therefore honor God with your body.

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KeithS - (eBible Novice) about 1 year ago.

It is true that God created humanity to need and enjoy food. At the same time, we must not place our hope and desire in these things because they are passing away (e.g. overeating or undereating is a false hope in the satisfaction that food can bring or in the satisfaction that a lack of food can bring). The same is true of sex. We must take care to remember that God's plan for using and enjoying sex is marriage (see next chapter). Anything else is sexual immorality (good sex vs. bad sex) and rebellion, especially for the believer, whose body belongs to the service of Jesus the Christ.