1 Cor 6:12-20
"Everything is permissible to me,” —but not
everything is beneficial. “I have the right to do anything”—but I will
not be mastered by anything.
Food for the stomach and the stomach for food, and God will destroy them both.
The body, however, is not meant for sexual immorality but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body.
But he who unites himself with the Lord is one with him in spirit.
All other sins a man commits are outside his body, but he who sins sexually sins against his own body. Your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit, who is in you, whom you have received from God? You are not your own; You were bought at a price. Therefore honor God with your body.
The Corinthian claim they are free to do anything, 'No doubt.' says Paul 'but I for one will not let anything make free with me.'
Sexual needs, they argue, are like hunger: they must be satisfied. The body is not important anyway. But this is wrong thinking, a carry-over of old ideas.
Why?
For the Christian the body cannot be separated off from the whole personality. You cannot sin with the body and keep the 'real' person untarnished: every individual is a unity, Christians have been joined to Christ's body: they must honor God in the way they use their own bodies.
Our body is a temple of the Holy Spirit, so we have not right to use it, but for the Lord, honor God with my body.
How?
Keep away anything about sexual immorality, respecting the marriage that God made for us.
We are free can do anything, but not everything is beneficial!
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