"Food is for the stomach, as the stomach is for food, and GOD will destroy them both. Yet the body is not for fornication, but for the LORD; and the LORD is for the body. And GOD, who raised the LORD, will also raise us with HIS power.
Do you not know that your bodies are members of CHRIST? And you would make that part of HIS body become a part of a prostitute? Never! But you will know that when you join yourselves to a prostitute, you become one with her. For Scripture says: The two will become one flesh. On the contrary, anyone united to the LORD becomes one spirit with HIM.
Avoid unlawful sex entirely. Any other sin a person commits is outside the body; but those who commit sexual immorality sin against their own body.
Do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit within you, given by GOD? You belong no longer to yourselves. Remember at what price you have been bought, and make your body serve the glory of GOD." - 1 Corinthians 6:13-20
(Paul contrasts what is purely biological in our body with what makes up our whole person. To eat and drink are requirements of the stomach [modern language: body]. In sexual union the body is given [modern language: person]. This is why the believer who belongs to CHRIST cannot give himself to a prostitute.)
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