1 Corinthians 6:13

New English Translation

“Food is for the stomach and the stomach is for food, but God will do away with both.” The body is not for sexual immorality, but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body.

Cross References

Matthew 15:17

Don’t you understand that whatever goes into the mouth enters the stomach and then passes out into the sewer?

Matthew 15:20

These are the things that defile a person; it is not eating with unwashed hands that defiles a person.”

Mark 7:19

For it does not enter his heart but his stomach, and then goes out into the sewer.” (This means all foods are clean.)

John 6:27

Do not work for the food that disappears, but for the food that remains to eternal life – the food which the Son of Man will give to you. For God the Father has put his seal of approval on him.”

John 6:49

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

Romans 12:1

Therefore I exhort you, brothers and sisters, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a sacrifice – alive, holy, and pleasing to God – which is your reasonable service.

Romans 14:17

For the kingdom of God does not consist of food and drink, but righteousness, peace, and joy in the Holy Spirit.

Romans 6:12

Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal body so that you obey its desires,

Romans 7:4

So, my brothers and sisters, you also died to the law through the body of Christ, so that you could be joined to another, to the one who was raised from the dead, to bear fruit to God.

1 Corinthians 3:16

Do you not know that you are God’s temple and that God’s Spirit lives in you?

1 Corinthians 6:15

Do you not know that your bodies are members of Christ? Should I 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 the temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have from God, and you are not your own?

2 Corinthians 11:2

For I am jealous for you with godly jealousy, because I promised you in marriage to one husband, to present you as a pure virgin to Christ.

2 Corinthians 5:15

And he died for all so that those who live should no longer live for themselves but for him who died for them and was raised.

Galatians 5:24

Now those who belong to Christ have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires.

Ephesians 5:23

because the husband is the head of the wife as also Christ is the head of the church – he himself being the savior of the body.