1 Corinthians 6:13
Meats 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.
Context
This verse from 1 Corinthians Chapter 6 connects to 10 cross-references. The Corinthians are taking one another to court before unbelievers — why not rather be wronged? Do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? 'All things are lawful for me but not all things …
Other Translations
Meats for the belly, and the belly for meats: but God shall bring to nought both it and them. But the body is not for fornication, but for the Lord; and the Lord for the body:
the meats <FI>are<Fi> for the belly, and the belly for the meats. And God both this and these shall make useless; and the body <FI>is<Fi> not for whoredom, but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body;
Food is for the stomach and the stomach for food, and God will put an end to them together. But the body is not for the desires of the flesh, but for the Lord; and the Lord for the body:
Cross References
Do not ye yet understand, that whatsoever entereth in at the mouth goeth into the belly, and is cast out …
These are the things which defile a man: but to eat with unwashen hands defileth not a man.
Because it entereth not into his heart, but into the belly, and goeth out into the draught, purging all meats?
Labour not for the meat which perisheth, but for that meat which endureth unto everlasting life, which the Son of …
Your fathers did eat manna in the wilderness, and are dead.
Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, that ye should obey it in the lusts thereof.
Wherefore, my brethren, ye also are become dead to the law by the body of Christ; that ye should be …
I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable …
For none of us liveth to himself, and no man dieth to himself.
For to this end Christ both died, and rose, and revived, that he might be Lord both of the dead …