1 Corinthians 6:13

The English Standar 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 sexual 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 is expelled?[4]

Matthew 15:20

These are what defile a person. But to eat with unwashed hands does not defile anyone."

Mark 7:19

since it enters not his heart but his stomach, and is expelled?"[6] (Thus he declared all foods clean.)

John 6:27

Do not labor for the food that perishes, but for the food that endures to eternal life, which the Son of Man will give to you. For on him God the Father has 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, brothers,[1] by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God, which is your spiritual worship.[2]

Romans 14:17

For the kingdom of God is not a matter of eating and drinking but of 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 brothers, you also 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[2] 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 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,

2 Corinthians 11:2

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

2 Corinthians 5:15

and he died for all, that those who live might no longer live 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 even as Christ is the head of the church, his body, and is himself its Savior.