1 Corinthians 6:13

You also, as living stones, are built up as a spiritual house, to be a holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.

Also, do not present your members to sin as instruments of unrighteousness, but present yourselves to God as alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness to God.

I speak in human terms because of the weakness of your flesh, for as you presented your members as servants to uncleanness and to wickedness upon wickedness, even so now present your members as servants to righteousness for sanctification.

I have been crucified with Christ, and it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me. That life which I now live in the flesh, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself up for me.

Now may the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, that you may abound in hope, in the power of the Holy Spirit.

But seek first God’s Kingdom, and his righteousness; and all these things will be given to you as well.

Don’t be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what is the good, well-pleasing, and perfect will of God.

I therefore, the prisoner in the Lord, beg you to walk worthily of the calling with which you were called,

If then you were raised together with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is, seated on the right hand of God.

Whatever you do, in word or in deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father, through him.

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faith,

Blessed are those who hunger and thirst after righteousness, for they shall be filled.

who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify for himself a people for his own possession, zealous for good works.

By this God’s love was revealed in us, that God has sent his one and only Son into the world that we might live through him.

Let the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be acceptable in your sight, Yahweh, my rock, and my redeemer.

What agreement does a temple of God have with idols? For you are a temple of the living God. Even as God said, “I will dwell in them and walk in them. I will be their God and they will be my people.”

I will put my Spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes. You will keep my ordinances and do them.

For God’s Kingdom is not in word, but in power.

What will I give to Yahweh for all his benefits toward me?

I am the vine. You are the branches. He who remains in me and I in him bears much fruit, for apart from me you can do nothing.

Don’t you know that when you present yourselves as servants and obey someone, you are the servants of whomever you obey; whether of sin to death, or of obedience to righteousness?

But you are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if it is so that the Spirit of God dwells in you. But if any man doesn’t have the Spirit of Christ, he is not his.

Or don’t you know that the unrighteous will not inherit God’s Kingdom? Don’t be deceived. Neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor male prostitutes, nor homosexuals,

Therefore we don’t faint, but though our outward man is decaying, yet our inward man is renewed day by day.

Jesus answered him, “Most certainly, I tell you, unless one is born anew, he can’t see God’s Kingdom.”

For the mind of the flesh is death, but the mind of the Spirit is life and peace;

But if the Spirit of him who raised up Jesus from the dead dwells in you, he who raised up Christ Jesus from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through his Spirit who dwells in you.

for you were bought with a price. Therefore glorify God in your body and in your spirit, which are God’s.

even as I also please all men in all things, not seeking my own profit, but the profit of the many, that they may be saved.

Therefore we know no one after the flesh from now on. Even though we have known Christ after the flesh, yet now we know him so no more.

If we live by the Spirit, let’s also walk by the Spirit.

that he might present the assembly to himself gloriously, not having spot or wrinkle or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without defect.

He who keeps his commandments remains in him, and he in him. By this we know that he remains in us, by the Spirit which he gave us.

Yahweh will give strength to his people. Yahweh will bless his people with peace.

to provide for those who mourn in Zion, to give to them a garland for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness, that they may be called trees of righteousness, the planting of Yahweh, that he may be glorified.

But he spoke of the temple of his body.

But the Counselor, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, will teach you all things, and will remind you of all that I said to you.

The disciples were filled with joy and with the Holy Spirit.

and be found in him, not having a righteousness of my own, that which is of the law, but that which is through faith in Christ, the righteousness which is from God by faith,

Or do you think that the Scripture says in vain, “The Spirit who lives in us yearns jealously”?

For to this end the Good News was preached even to the dead, that they might be judged indeed as men in the flesh, but live as to God in the spirit.

These are those who were not defiled with women, for they are virgins. These are those who follow the Lamb wherever he goes. These were redeemed by Jesus from among men, the first fruits to God and to the Lamb.

Why do you spend money for that which is not bread, and your labor for that which doesn’t satisfy? Listen diligently to me, and eat that which is good, and let your soul delight itself in richness.

“Repent, for the Kingdom of Heaven is at hand!”

to grant to us that we, being delivered out of the hand of our enemies, should serve him without fear,

He said to all, “If anyone desires to come after me, let him deny himself, take up his cross, and follow me.

neither will they say, ‘Look, here!’ or, ‘Look, there!’ for behold, God’s Kingdom is within you.”

Being therefore justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ;

For sin will not have dominion over you. For you are not under law, but under grace.

Now I beg you, brothers, by our Lord Jesus Christ and by the love of the Spirit, that you strive together with me in your prayers to God for me,

Flee sexual immorality! “Every sin that a man does is outside the body,” but he who commits sexual immorality sins against his own body.

but I beat my body and bring it into submission, lest by any means, after I have preached to others, I myself should be rejected.

Working together, we entreat also that you do not receive the grace of God in vain,

For I, through the law, died to the law, that I might live to God.

This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that you no longer walk as the rest of the Gentiles also walk, in the futility of their mind,

Know this for sure, that no sexually immoral person, nor unclean person, nor covetous man, who is an idolater, has any inheritance in the Kingdom of Christ and God.

strengthened with all power, according to the might of his glory, for all endurance and perseverance with joy,

to whom God was pleased to make known what are the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles, which is Christ in you, the hope of glory.

And whatever you do, work heartily, as for the Lord, and not for men,

to the end that you should walk worthily of God, who calls you into his own Kingdom and glory.

Finally then, brothers, we beg and exhort you in the Lord Jesus, that as you received from us how you ought to walk and to please God, that you abound more and more.

For this is the will of God: your sanctification, that you abstain from sexual immorality,

not paying attention to Jewish fables and commandments of men who turn away from the truth.

but Christ is faithful as a Son over his house. We are his house, if we hold fast our confidence and the glorying of our hope firm to the end.

and the Living one. I was dead, and behold, I am alive forever and ever. Amen. I have the keys of Death and of Hades.

Let’s rejoice and be exceedingly glad, and let’s give the glory to him. For the wedding of the Lamb has come, and his wife has made herself ready.”

He shall lay his hand on the head of the burnt offering, and it shall be accepted for him to make atonement for him.

I will greatly rejoice in Yahweh! My soul will be joyful in my God, for he has clothed me with the garments of salvation. He has covered me with the robe of righteousness, as a bridegroom decks himself with a garland and as a bride adorns herself with her jewels.

For none of us lives to himself, and none dies to himself.

For we are God’s fellow workers. You are God’s farming, God’s building.

This mystery is great, but I speak concerning Christ and of the assembly.

who delivered us out of the power of darkness, and translated us into the Kingdom of the Son of his love,

Don’t you understand that whatever goes into the mouth passes into the belly, and then out of the body?

Don’t you know that your bodies are members of Christ? Shall I then take the members of Christ and make them members of a prostitute? May it never be!

Or don’t you know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have from God? You are not your own,

But sexual immorality, and all uncleanness or covetousness, let it not even be mentioned among you, as becomes saints;

(all of which perish with use), according to the precepts and doctrines of men?

Therefore don’t let sin reign in your mortal body, that you should obey it in its lusts.

Don’t you know that you are a temple of God, and that God’s Spirit lives in you?

It is actually reported that there is sexual immorality among you, and such sexual immorality as is not even named among the Gentiles, that one has his father’s wife.

For the husband is the head of the wife, as Christ also is the head of the assembly, being himself the savior of the body.

Put to death therefore your members which are on the earth: sexual immorality, uncleanness, depraved passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry.

My sister, my bride, is a locked up garden; a locked up spring, a sealed fountain.

These are the things which defile the man; but to eat with unwashed hands doesn’t defile the man.”

because it doesn’t go into his heart, but into his stomach, then into the latrine, making all foods clean?”

Don’t work for the food which perishes, but for the food which remains to eternal life, which the Son of Man will give to you. For God the Father has sealed him.”

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

but that we write to them that they abstain from the pollution of idols, from sexual immorality, from what is strangled, and from blood.

Therefore God also gave them up in the lusts of their hearts to uncleanness, that their bodies should be dishonored among themselves;

Therefore, my brothers, you also were made dead to the law through the body of Christ, that you would be joined to another, to him who was raised from the dead, that we might produce fruit to God.

Therefore I urge you, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your spiritual service.

for God’s Kingdom is not eating and drinking, but righteousness, peace, and joy in the Holy Spirit.

yet to us there is one God, the Father, of whom are all things, and we for him; and one Lord, Jesus Christ, through whom are all things, and we live through him.

But food will not commend us to God. For neither, if we don’t eat, are we the worse; nor, if we eat, are we the better.

Now I say this, brothers, that flesh and blood can’t inherit God’s Kingdom; neither does the perishable inherit imperishable.

He died for all, that those who live should no longer live to themselves, but to him who for their sakes died and rose again.

For I am jealous over you with a godly jealousy. For I married you to one husband, that I might present you as a pure virgin to Christ.

forbidding marriage and commanding to abstain from foods which God created to be received with thanksgiving by those who believe and know the truth.

Don’t be carried away by various and strange teachings, for it is good that the heart be established by grace, not by food, through which those who were so occupied were not benefited.

You are of God, little children, and have overcome them; because greater is he who is in you than he who is in the world.