006:012 Everything is allowable to me, but not everything is profitable. Everything is allowable to me, but to nothing will I become a slave.
006:013 Food of all kinds is meant for the stomach, and the stomach is meant for food, and God will cause both of them to perish. Yet the body does not exist for the purpose of fornication, but for the Master's service, and the Master exists for the body;
006:014 and as God by His power raised the Master to life, so He will also raise us up.
006:015 Do you not know that your bodies are members of Christ? Shall I then take away the members of Christ and make them the members of a prostitute? No, indeed.
006:016 Or do you not know that a man who has to do with a prostitute is one with her in body? For God says, "The two shall become one."
006:017 But he who is in union with the Master is one with Him in spirit.
006:018 Flee from fornication. Any other sin that a human being commits
lies outside the body; but he who commits fornication sins
against his own body.
006:019 Or do you not know that your bodies are a sanctuary
of the Holy Spirit who is within you—the Spirit whom you
have from God?
006:020 And you are not your own, for you have been redeemed at
infinite cost. Therefore glorify God in your bodies.
007:001 I now deal with the subjects mentioned in your letter.
It is well for a man to abstain altogether from marriage.