Don't indulge the flesh12You hear some people say, "Everything is possible for me." However not everything is beneficial for you. You may say, "Everything is permissible for me;" but I will not allow any fleshly desire to be my master.13Others say, "Food is for the stomach and the stomach is for food." Yes, but both food and stomach will be destroyed by God. He has given you your body to be used for His purposes, not for sexual immorality. That is why the Lord has come to live in your body.14God used His power to raise the Lord Jesus from the dead and by that same power He will raise us as well.15Do you not realise that your bodies are members of Christ Himself because you belong to His body? Would you expect me to take members of Christ and make them one with prostitutes? Of course not!16You know that anyone who unites himself with a prostitute has made himself of one body with her, don't you? God has said, "The two become one flesh," when they have sexual relations.17How much better for the believer to unite himself with the Lord, so He will be one with Him in Spirit!18Turn your back completely on sexual immorality. All the other sins a man can be guilty of do not involve his body in the same way. But the man who sins sexually actually commits sin against his own body!Temples of the Holy Spirit19Surely you realise that God has made your body a temple of the Holy Spirit, who now lives in you? This is God's doing; and so you do not belong to yourself, to do as you please.20God has purchased you for Himself; He has paid the price for you with His Son's blood. So honour Him in the way you use your body!
Scripture quoted by permission. The passage above is taken from THE TRUTH VERSION. Copyright © 2009 by Colin Urquhart. All rights reserved worldwide. (The Truth New Testament)