1 Corinthians 6:13

Revised Standard Version

“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 immorality, 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 passes into the stomach, and so passes on?

Matthew 15:20

These are what defile a man; but to eat with unwashed hands does not defile a man.”

Mark 7:19

since it enters, not his heart but his stomach, and so passes on?” (Thus he declared all foods clean.)

John 6:27

Do not labor for the food which perishes, but for the food which endures to eternal life, which the Son of man will give to you; for on him has God the Father set his seal.”

John 6:49

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

Romans 12:1

I appeal to you therefore, brethren, 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

Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal bodies, to make you obey their passions.

Romans 7:4

Likewise, my brethren, 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? Shall I therefore take the members of Christ and make them members of a prostitute? Never!

1 Corinthians 6:19

Do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit within you, which you have from God? You are not your own;

2 Corinthians 11:2

I feel a divine jealousy for you, for I betrothed you to Christ to present you as a pure bride to her one husband.

2 Corinthians 5:15

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

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 as Christ is the head of the church, his body, and is himself its Savior.