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1 Corinthians 6:13 - Meaning and Application
Understand how this verse speaks to what you're facing and how to apply it today
Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition
" “Foods for the belly, and the belly for foods,” but God will bring to nothing both it and them. But the body is not for sexual immorality, but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body. "
1 Corinthians 6:13
Verse in Context
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11 Some of you were such, but you were washed. You were sanctified. You were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and in the Spirit of our God.
12 “All things are lawful for me,” but not all things are expedient. “All things are lawful for me,” but I will not be brought under the power of anything.
13 “Foods for the belly, and the belly for foods,” but God will bring to nothing both it and them. But the body is not for sexual immorality, but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body.
14 Now God raised up the Lord, and will also raise us up by his power.
15 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!
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1 Corinthians 6:1
"Dare any of you, having a matter against his neighbor, go to law before the unrighteous, and not before the saints?"
1 Corinthians 6:2
"Don’t you know that the saints will judge the world? And if the world is judged by you, are you unworthy to judge the smallest matters?"
1 Corinthians 6:3
"Don’t you know that we will judge angels? How much more, things that pertain to this life?"
1 Corinthians 6:4
"If then you have to judge things pertaining to this life, do you set them to judge who are of no account in the assembly?"
1 Corinthians 6:5
"I say this to move you to shame. Isn’t there even one wise man among you who would be able to decide between his brothers?"
1 Corinthians 6:6
"But brother goes to law with brother, and that before unbelievers!"
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