Your Body - God's Temple
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God wants us to be holy, just as he is holy. The church in Corinth, just as the church today, struggled with unholy sexual practices and attitudes.
Our culture is obsessed with sex.
The church in Corinth struggled over the same tensions we struggle with today.
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.
You will notice that vs. 12 in the NIV uses quotes while the KJV does not. Most scholars believe that Paul was likely quoting words he had heard some members of the Corinth church use.
Paul wants immature Corinthians to know that you may have the right to do everything but not everything is beneficial to you or glorifying to God.
Faithlife Study Bible Chapter 6
6:13 the stomach for food Describes a person’s sexual appetite using a well-known euphemism from the ancient world. The logic of the metaphor is that just as the stomach’s appetite is meant to be satisfied with food, so the body is meant to be satisfied through sexual activity.
God will abolish both of them Many Greeks rejected the idea of a bodily resurrection because they believed that death separated the body and spirit permanently (see Acts 17:32).
Faithlife Study Bible Chapter 6
6:14 will raise us up Believers should not misuse their bodies for sexual immorality because God cares about their bodies that will be resurrected; rather, they must recognize that their bodies belong to the Lord, who will resurrect them (15:35–41).
Our sexual appetite is so powerful that it causes people to risk everything. Look back at vs. 9
9 Don’t you know that the unrighteous will not inherit God’s kingdom? Do not be deceived: No sexually immoral people, idolaters, adulterers, or males who have sex with males,
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.”
17 But whoever is united with the Lord is one with him in spirit.
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.
vs. 18
Flee - Have you ever heard someone calmly say flee?
There is something different about a sexual sin. Inside & outside the body.
vs. 19
“temples” - plural
vs. 20 - What was that price?
1 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.