1 Corinthians 6:12-20

Disciples’ Literal New Testament

Do Not Be Sexually Immoral

¹² “All^[a] things are lawful^[b] to me”, but not all things are beneficial^[c]. “All things are lawful to me”, but I will not be mastered by any. ¹³ Foods^[d] are for the stomach and the stomach for foods. But God will do-away-with^[e] both this and these. But the body is not for sexual-immorality, but for the Lord, and the Lord is for the body. ¹⁴ And God both raised the Lord and will raise us up by His power.

Your Bodies Are Body-Parts of Christ: Flee Sexual Immorality

¹⁵ Do you not know that your bodies are body-parts^[f] of Christ? Therefore, having taken-away the body-parts of Christ, shall I make them body-parts of a prostitute? May it never be! ¹⁶ Or do you not know that the one joining himself to a prostitute is one body with her? For He says [in Gen 2:24] “the two will be one flesh”. ¹⁷ But the one joining himself to the Lord is one spirit with Him. ¹⁸ Be fleeing sexual immorality.

Your Body Is The Temple of The Holy Spirit. Glorify God In Your Body

Every sin which a person may do is outside the body. But the one committing-sexual-immorality is sinning against his own body. ¹⁹ Or do you not know that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit in you, Whom you have from God? And you are not your own^[g], ²⁰ for you were bought with a price. Therefore glorify God in your body.