1 Corinthians 6:13
 1 Corinthians 6:13 
New International Version (© 2011)
You say, "Food for the stomach and the stomach for food, and God will destroy them both." The body, however, is not meant for sexual immorality but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body.

King James Bible
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.

American Standard Version
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:

Young's Literal Translation
the meats are for the belly, and the belly for the meats. And God both this and these shall make useless; and the body is not for whoredom, but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body;

1 Corinthians 6:13 Additional Translations
Clarke's Commentary on the Bible

Meats for the belly - I suppose that κοιλια means the animal appetite, or propensity to food, etc., and we may conceive the apostle to reason thus: I acknowledge that God has provided different kinds of aliments for the appetite of man, and among others those which are generally offered to idols; and he has adapted the appetite to these aliments, and the aliments to the appetite: but God shall destroy both it and them; none of these is eternal; all these lower appetites and sensations will be destroyed by death, and have no existence in the resurrection body; and the earth and its productions shall be burnt up.

Now the body is not for fornication - Though God made an appetite for food, and provided food for that appetite, yet he has not made the body for any uncleanness, nor indulgence in sensuality; but he has made it for Christ; and Christ was provided to be a sacrifice for this body as well as for the soul, by taking our nature upon him; so that now, as human beings, we have an intimate relationship to the Lord; and our bodies are made not only for his service, but to be his temples.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Meats for.

Matthew 15:17,20 Do not you yet understand, that whatever enters in at the mouth goes into the belly, and is cast out into the draught...

Mark 7:19 Because it enters not into his heart, but into the belly, and goes out into the draught, purging all meats?

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

but God.

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

John 6:27,49 Labor not for the meat which perishes, but for that meat which endures to everlasting life, which the Son of man shall give to you...

Colossians 2:22,23 Which all are to perish with the using;) after the commandments 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...

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

Romans 6:12 Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, that you should obey it in the lusts thereof.

Romans 7:4 Why, my brothers, you also are become dead to the law by the body of Christ; that you should be married to another...

Romans 12:1 I beseech you therefore, brothers, by the mercies of God, that you present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God...

Romans 14:7-9 For none of us lives to himself, and no man dies to himself...

2 Corinthians 5:15 And that he died for all, that they which live should not from now on live to themselves, but to him which died for them...

2 Corinthians 11:2 For I am jealous over you with godly jealousy: for I have espoused you to one husband...

Ephesians 5:23 For the husband is the head of the wife, even as Christ is the head of the church: and he is the savior of the body.

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

1 Corinthians 6:13 Parallel Commentaries
Belly Body Cause Desires Destroy End Exist Exists Flesh Food Foods Fornication Immorality Kinds Lewdness Master Master's Meant Meats Perish Purpose Service Sexual Stomach Together Useless Whoredom
Belly Body Cause Desires Destroy End Exist Exists Flesh Food Foods Fornication Immorality Kinds Lewdness Master Master's Meant Meats Perish Purpose Service Sexual Stomach Together Useless Whoredom
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Matthew 15:17 "Don't you see that whatever enters the mouth goes into the stomach and then out of the body?
1 Corinthians 6:15 Do you not know that your bodies are members of Christ himself? Shall I then take the members of Christ and unite them with a prostitute? Never!
1 Corinthians 6:19 Do you not know that your bodies are temples of the Holy Spirit, who is in you, whom you have received from God? You are not your own;
Galatians 5:24 Those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires.
Ephesians 5:23 For the husband is the head of the wife as Christ is the head of the church, his body, of which he is the Savior.
Colossians 2:22 These rules, which have to do with things that are all destined to perish with use, are based on merely human commands and teachings.