1 Corinthians 6:13
Good News Translation
Someone else will say, "Food is for the stomach, and the stomach is for food." Yes; but God will put an end to both. The body is not to be used for sexual immorality, but to serve the Lord; and the Lord provides for the body.

New Revised Standard Version
“Food is meant for the stomach and the stomach for food,” and God will destroy both one and the other. The body is meant not for fornication but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body.

Contemporary English Version
You also say, "Food is meant for our bodies, and our bodies are meant for food." But I tell you that God will destroy them both. We are not supposed to do indecent things with our bodies. We are to use them for the Lord who is in charge of our bodies.

New American Bible
“Food for the stomach and the stomach for food,” but God will do away with both the one and the other. The body, however, is not for immorality, but for the Lord, and the Lord is for the body;

Douay-Rheims Bible
Meat for the belly and the belly for the meats: but God shall destroy both it and them. But the body is not for fornication, but for the Lord: and the Lord for the body.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Meat for the belly and the belly for the meats: but God shall destroy both it and them. But the body is not for fornication, but for the Lord: and the Lord for the body.

Meats for.

Matthew 15:17,20 Do you not understand, that whatsoever entereth into the mouth, goeth into the belly, and is cast out into the privy? . . .

Mark 7:19 Because it entereth not into his heart but goeth into his belly and goeth out into the privy, purging all meats?

Romans 14:17 For the kingdom of God is not meat and drink: but justice and peace and joy in the Holy Ghost.

but God.

1 Corinthians 10:3-5 And did all eat the same spiritual food: . . .

John 6:27,49 Labour not for the meat which perisheth, but for that which endureth unto life everlasting, which the Son of man will give you. For him hath God, the Father, sealed. . . .

Colossians 2:22,23 Which all are unto destruction by the very use, according to the precepts and doctrines of men. . . .

but for.

1 Corinthians 6:15,19 Know you 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! . . .

1 Corinthians 3:16 Know you not that you are the temple of God and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you?

Romans 6:12 Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, so as to obey the lusts thereof.

Romans 7:4 Therefore, my brethren, you also are become dead to the law, by the body of Christ: that you may belong to another, who is risen again from the dead that we may bring forth fruit to God.

Romans 12:1 I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercy of God, that you present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, pleasing unto God, your reasonable service.

Romans 14:7-9 For none of us liveth to himself: and no man dieth to himself. . . .

2 Corinthians 5:15 And Christ died for all: that they also who live may not now live to themselves, but unto him who died for them and rose again.

2 Corinthians 11:2 For I am jealous of you with the jealousy of God. For I have espoused you to one husband, that I may present you as a chaste virgin to Christ.

Ephesians 5:23 Because the husband is the head of the wife, as Christ is the head of the church. He is the saviour of his body.

1 Thessalonians 4:3-7 For this is the will of God, your sanctification: That you should abstain from fornication: . . .

Context
Members of Christ
12All things are lawful to me: but all things are not expedient. All things are lawful to me: but I will not be brought under the power of any. 13Meat for the belly and the belly for the meats: but God shall destroy both it and them. But the body is not for fornication, but for the Lord: and the Lord for the body. 14Now God hath raised up the Lord and will raise us up also by his power.…
Cross References
Matthew 15:17
Do you not understand, that whatsoever entereth into the mouth, goeth into the belly, and is cast out into the privy?

1 Corinthians 6:15
Know you 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!

1 Corinthians 6:19
Or know you not that your members are the temple of the Holy Ghost, who is in you, whom you have from God: and you are not your own?

Galatians 5:24
And they that are Christ's have crucified their flesh, with the vices and concupiscences.

Ephesians 5:23
Because the husband is the head of the wife, as Christ is the head of the church. He is the saviour of his body.

Colossians 2:22
Which all are unto destruction by the very use, according to the precepts and doctrines of men.

1 Corinthians 6:12
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