1 Corinthians 6:13

New Revised Standard Version Catholic Interconfessional

“Food is meant for the stomach and the stomach for food,” and God will destroy both one and the other. The body is meant not for fornication but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body.

Cross References

Matthew 15:17

Do you not see that whatever goes into the mouth enters the stomach, and goes out into the sewer?

Matthew 15:20

These are what defile a person, but to eat with unwashed hands does not defile.”

Mark 7:19

since it enters, not the heart but the stomach, and goes out into the sewer?” (Thus he declared all foods clean.)

John 6:27

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

John 6:49

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

Romans 12:1

I appeal to you therefore, brothers and sisters, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God, which is your spiritual worship.

Romans 14:17

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

Romans 6:12

Therefore, do not let sin exercise dominion in your mortal bodies, to make you obey their passions.

Romans 7:4

In the same way, my friends, you have died to the law through the body of Christ, so that you may belong to another, to him who has been raised from the dead in order that we may bear fruit for God.

1 Corinthians 3:16

Do you not know that you are God's temple and that God's Spirit dwells in you?

1 Corinthians 6:15

Do you not know that your bodies are members of Christ? Should I therefore 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, which you have from God, and that you are not your own?

2 Corinthians 11:2

I feel a divine jealousy for you, for I promised you in marriage to one husband, to present you as a chaste virgin to Christ.

2 Corinthians 5:15

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

Galatians 5:24

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

Ephesians 5:23

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