Read 1 Corinthians 6:12-7:9
Exercise: Insanity Warm up / P90x Shoulders and Arms
Calories burned: 614 cal, Time 2 hr 5 min
1 Corinthians 6:12-7:9New International Version (NIV)
Sexual Immorality
12 “I have the right to do anything,” you say—but not everything is beneficial. “I have the right to do anything”—but I will not be mastered by anything. 13 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.14 By his power God raised the Lord from the dead, and he will raise us also. 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! 16 Do you not know that he who unites himself with a prostitute is one with her in body? For it is said, “The two will become one flesh.”[a] 17 But whoever is united with the Lord is one with him in spirit.[b]
18 Flee from sexual immorality. All other sins a person commits are outside the body, but whoever sins sexually, sins against their own body. 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; 20 you were bought at a price. Therefore honor God with your bodies.
Concerning Married Life
7 Now for the matters you wrote about: “It is good for a man not to have sexual relations with a woman.” 2 But since sexual immorality is occurring, each man should have sexual relations with his own wife, and each woman with her own husband. 3 The husband should fulfill his marital duty to his wife, and likewise the wife to her husband.4 The wife does not have authority over her own body but yields it to her husband. In the same way, the husband does not have authority over his own body but yields it to his wife. 5 Do not deprive each other except perhaps by mutual consent and for a time,so that you may devote yourselves to prayer. Then come together again so that Satan will not tempt you because of your lack of self-control. 6 I say this as a concession, not as a command. 7 I wish that all of you were as I am. But each of you has your own gift from God; one has this gift, another has that.
8 Now to the unmarried[c] and the widows I say: It is good for them to stay unmarried, as I do. 9 But if they cannot control themselves, they should marry, for it is better to marry than to burn with passion.
Commentary:
TOPIC: Glorify God with Your Body
Corinthians' attitude (1 Cor. 6:13a) "Meats for the belly, and the belly for meats" was a slogan used by Corinthians to justify their actions.
This is not foreign to our own culture. All we have to do is listen to the reasoning of unregenerated people (and far too often believers) to hear the same basic philosophy today. "If it feels good, do it" has become the mantra of many. When we think about it, however, we realize there is a great deal of selfishness involved. Men and women will use rationalizations in order to get what they want from others, not giving any consideration to the fact that they are damaging those they get involved with.
"They treated sex as an appetite to be satisfied and not as a gift to be cherished and used carefully. Sensuality is set what gluttony is to eating; both are sinful and both bring disastrous consequences. Just because we have certain normal desires, given by God at Creation, does not mean that we must give in to them and always satisify them.
Sex outside of marriage is destructive, while sex in marriage can be creative and beautiful.
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