1 Corinthians 6:12-20

Flee Sexual Immorality

¹² _c "All things are lawful for me," but not all things are helpful. "All things are lawful for me," but I will not be enslaved by anything. ¹³ _d "Food is meant for the stomach and the stomach for food" - and God will destroy both one _e and the other. The body is not meant for sexual immorality, but _f for the Lord, and _g the Lord for the body. ¹⁴ And _h God raised the Lord and _i will also raise us up _j by his power. ¹⁵ Do you not know that _k your bodies are members of Christ? Shall I then take the members of Christ and make them members of a prostitute? Never! ¹⁶ Or do you not know that he who is joined ₁ to a prostitute becomes one body with her? For, as it is written, _l "The two will become one flesh." ¹⁷ But he who is joined to the Lord _m becomes one spirit with him. ¹⁸ _n Flee from sexual immorality. Every other sin ₂ a person commits is outside the body, but the sexually immoral person _o sins against his own body. ¹⁹ Or _p do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit within you, whom you have from God? _q You are not your own, ²⁰ _r for you were bought with a price. _s So glorify God in your body.

1. Cross References
   1 Corinthians 10:23
   All things are lawful," but not all things are helpful. "All things are lawful," but not all things build up.
   
2. Cross References
   Matthew 15:17
   Do you not see that whatever goes into the mouth passes into the stomach and is expelled?
   
3. Cross References
   Colossians 2:22
   ( referring to things that all perish as they are used) - according to human precepts and teachings?
   
4. Cross References
   1 Corinthians 6:15
   Do you not know that your bodies are members of Christ? Shall I then take the members of Christ and make them members of a prostitute? Never!
   1 Corinthians 6:19
   Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit within you, whom you have from God? You are not your own.
   
5. Cross References
   Ephesians 5:23
   For the husband is the head of the wife even as Christ is the head of the church, his body, and is himself its Savior.
   
6. Cross References
   Acts 2:24
   God raised him up, loosing the pangs of death, because it was not possible for him to be held by it.
   
7. Cross References
   1 Corinthians 15:22 - 23
   For as in Adam all die, so also in Christ shall all be made alive.
   John 6:39 - 40
   And this is the will of him who sent me, that I should lose nothing of all that he has given me, but raise it up on the last day.
   
8. Cross References
   Matthew 22:29
   But Jesus answered them, "You are wrong, because you know neither the Scriptures nor the power of God.
   Ephesians 1:19 - 20
   And what is the immeasurable greatness of his power toward us who believe, according to the working of his great might
   
9. Cross References
   1 Corinthians 6:13
   Food is meant for the stomach and the stomach for food" - and God will destroy both one and the other. The body is not meant for sexual immorality, but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body.
   Ephesians 5:30
   Because we are members of his body.
   1 Corinthians 12:27
   Now you are the body of Christ and individually members of it.
   Romans 12:5
   So we, though many, are one body in Christ, and individually members one of another.
   
10. Cross References
    Matthew 19:5
    And said, 'Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh'?
    Mark 10:8
    And the two shall become one flesh.' So they are no longer two but one flesh.
    Ephesians 5:31
    "Therefore a man shall leave his father and mother and hold fast to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh."
    Genesis 2:24
    Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and they shall become one flesh.
    
11. Cross References
    Genesis 2:24
    Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and they shall become one flesh.
    
12. Cross References
    Ephesians 4:4
    There is one body and one Spirit - just as you were called to the one hope that belongs to your call -
    John 17:21 - 23
    That they may all be one, just as you, Father, are in me, and I in you, that they also may be in us, so that the world may believe that you have sent me.
    
13. Cross References
    2 Corinthians 12:21
    I fear that when I come again my God may humble me before you, and I may have to mourn over many of those who sinned earlier and have not repented of the impurity, sexual immorality, and sensuality that they have practiced.
    Ephesians 5:3
    But sexual immorality and all impurity or covetousness must not even be named among you, as is proper among saints.
    
14. Cross References
    Proverbs 5:11
    And at the end of your life you groan, when your flesh and body are consumed.
    
15. Cross References
    John 2:21
    But he was speaking about the temple of his body.
    1 Corinthians 3:16
    Do you not know that you are God's temple and that God's Spirit dwells in you?
    
16. Cross References
    Romans 14:7
    For none of us lives to himself, and none of us dies to himself.
    
17. Cross References
    1 Corinthians 7:23
    You were bought with a price; do not become slaves of men.
    Acts 20:28
    Pay careful attention to yourselves and to all the flock, in which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers, to care for the church of God, which he obtained with his own blood.
    Hebrews 9:12
    He entered once for all into the holy places, not by means of the blood of goats and calves but by means of his own blood, thus securing an eternal redemption.
    Hebrews 9:14
    How much more will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without blemish to God, purify our conscience from dead works to serve the living God.
    2 Peter 2:1
    But false prophets also arose among the people, just as there will be false teachers among you, who will secretly bring in destructive heresies, even denying the Master who bought them, bringing upon themselves swift destruction.
    
18. Cross References
    Philippians 1:20
    As it is my eager expectation and hope that I will not be at all ashamed, but that with full courage now as always Christ will be honored in my body, whether by life or by death.