1 Corinthians 6:13 — King James Version← Study notes
“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.”
1 Corinthians 6:13 — Greek Interlinear
Greek · 1 Corinthians 6:1331 words
ℹGreek text from the SBL Greek New Testament (SBLGNT). Transliteration follows SBL Academic conventions.
Church Fathers on 1 Corinthians 6:13
“Meats for the belly.” By “the belly” here he means not the stomach, but the stomach's voraciousness. As when he says, Philippians 3:19 “Whose God is their belly:” not speaking about that part of the body, but about greediness. To prove that so it is, hear what follows: “And the belly for meats; but the body is not for fornication, but for the Lord.” And yet “the belly” also is of “the body.” But he puts down two pairs of things, “meats” and gluttony, (which he terms “the…
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