13Meats for the belly, and the belly for meats: but God shall destroy both it and them. Now the body is not for fornication, but for the Lord; and the Lord for the body.
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What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own?
Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you?
Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, that ye should obey it in the lusts thereof.
Know ye not that your bodies are the members of Christ? shall I then take the members of Christ, and make them the members of an harlot? God forbid.
For this is the will of God, even your sanctification, that ye should abstain from fornication: …
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 12-20)The 1 Cor. 6:12 , 13 seem to relate to that early dispute among Christians about the distinction of meats, and yet to be prefatory to the caution that follows against fornication. The connection seems plain enough if we attend to the famous determination of the apostles, Acts 15:19-29, where the prohibition of certain foods was joined with that of fornication. Now some among the Corinthians seem t…
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