1 Corinthians 6:13

Modern English Version

“Food is for the belly, and the belly is for food,” but God will destroy both of them. Now the body is not for sexual immorality, but for the Lord, and the Lord is for the body.

Cross References

Matthew 15:17

Do you not yet understand that whatever enters at the mouth goes into the stomach and is cast out into the sewer?

Matthew 15:20

These are the things which defile a man. But to eat with unwashed hands does not defile a man.”

Mark 7:19

because it does not enter his heart, but into his stomach, and goes out into the sewer, thus purifying all foods?”

John 6:27

Do not work for the food which perishes, but for that food which endures to eternal life, which the Son of Man will give you. For God the Father has set His seal on Him.”

John 6:49

Your fathers ate manna in the wilderness, and they died.

Romans 12:1

I urge you therefore, brothers, by the mercies of God, that you present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy, and acceptable to God, which is your reasonable service of worship.

Romans 14:17

For the kingdom of God does not mean eating and drinking, but righteousness and peace and joy in the Holy Spirit.

Romans 6:12

Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal body, that you should obey it in its lusts.

Romans 7:4

So, my brothers, you also have died to the law through the body of Christ, so that you may be married to another, to Him who has been raised from the dead, so that we may bear fruit for God.

1 Corinthians 3:16

Do you not know that you are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwells in you?

1 Corinthians 6:15

Do you not know that your bodies are the parts of Christ? Shall I then take the parts of Christ and make them the parts of a harlot? God forbid!

1 Corinthians 6:19

What? Do you not know that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit, who is in you, whom you have received from God, and that you are not your own?

2 Corinthians 11:2

For I am jealous over you with godly jealousy. For I have espoused you to one husband, that I may present you as a chaste virgin to Christ.

2 Corinthians 5:15

And He died for all, that those who live should not from now on live for themselves, but for Him who died for them and rose again.

Galatians 5:24

Those who are Christ’s have crucified the flesh with its passions and lusts.

Ephesians 5:23

For the husband is the head of the wife, just as Christ is the head and Savior of the church, which is His body.