Scriptures

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1 Corinthians 6
¹⁴ And God will raise us from the dead by his power, just as he raised our Lord from the dead.
¹⁵ Don’t you realize that your bodies are actually parts of Christ? Should a man take his body, which is part of Christ, and join it to a prostitute? Never!
¹⁶ And don’t you realize that if a man joins himself to a prostitute, he becomes one body with her? For the Scriptures say, “The two are united into one.”
¹⁷ But the person who is joined to the Lord is one spirit with him.
¹⁸ Run from sexual sin! No other sin so clearly affects the body as this one does. For sexual immorality is a sin against your own body.
¹⁹ Don’t you realize that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit, who lives in you and was given to you by God? You do not belong to yourself,
²⁰ for God bought you with a high price. So you must honor God with your body.
1 Corinthians 7
¹ Now regarding the questions you asked in your letter. Yes, it is good to abstain from sexual relations.
² But because there is so much sexual immorality, each man should have his own wife, and each woman should have her own husband.
³ The husband should fulfill his wife’s sexual needs, and the wife should fulfill her husband’s needs.
⁴ The wife gives authority over her body to her husband, and the husband gives authority over his body to his wife.