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Body Is A Temple
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Or know ye not that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit which is in you, which ye have from God? and ye are not your own; — read the full passage →
Or know ye not that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit which is in you, which ye have from God? and ye are not your own;
Know ye not that ye are a temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you? — read the full passage →
for ye were bought with a price: glorify God therefore in your body.
Know ye not that ye are a temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you?
Ye shall not make any cuttings in your flesh for the dead, nor print any marks upon you: I am Jehovah.
Flee fornication. Every sin that a man doeth is without the body; but he that committeth fornication sinneth against his own body.
And be not fashioned according to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is the good and acceptable and perfect will of God.
I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your spiritual service.
And what agreement hath a temple of God with idols? for we are a temple of the living God; even as God said, I will dwell in them, and walk in them; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people.
But he spake of the temple of his body.
But flee youthful lusts, and follow after righteousness, faith, love, peace, with them that call on the Lord out of a pure heart.
for no man ever hated his own flesh; but nourisheth and cherisheth it, even as Christ also the church;
Meats for the belly, and the belly for meats: but God shall bring to nought both it and them. But the body is not for fornication, but for the Lord; and the Lord for the body:
Now concerning the things whereof ye wrote: It is good for a man not to touch a woman. — read the full passage →
The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show unto his servants, even the things which must shortly come to pass: and he sent and signified it by his angel unto his servant John;
In like manner, that women adorn themselves in modest apparel, with shamefastness and sobriety; not with braided hair, and gold or pearls or costly raiment;
Wherefore if any man is in Christ, he is a new creature: the old things are passed away; behold, they are become new.
Know ye not that we shall judge angels? how much more, things that pertain to this life?
according to my earnest expectation and hope, that in nothing shall I be put to shame, but that with all boldness, as always, so now also Christ shall be magnified in my body, whether by life, or by death.
for bodily exercise is profitable for a little; but godliness is profitable for all things, having promise of the life which now is, and of that which is to come.
Put to death therefore your members which are upon the earth: fornication, uncleanness, passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry;
Whether therefore ye eat, or drink, or whatsoever ye do, do all to the glory of God.
it is sown a natural body; it is raised a spiritual body. If there is a natural body, there is also a spiritual body.
It is actually reported that there is fornication among you, and such fornication as is not even among the Gentiles, that oneof you hath his father’s wife. — read the full passage →
Take heed unto yourselves, and to all the flock, in which the Holy Spirit hath made you bishops, to feed the church of the Lord which he purchased with his own blood.
And be not afraid of them that kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul: but rather fear him who is able to destroy both soul and body in hell.
But ye are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if so be that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you. But if any man hath not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of his.
But fornication, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not even be named among you, as becometh saints;
And he spake also this parable unto certain who trusted in themselves that they were righteous, and set all others at nought: — read the full passage →
I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your spiritual service. — read the full passage →
For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth on him should not perish, but have eternal life. — read the full passage →
The lamp of the body is the eye: if therefore thine eye be single, thy whole body shall be full of light.
knowing that ye were redeemed, not with corruptible things, with silver or gold, from your vain manner of life handed down from your fathers; — read the full passage →
Ye were bought with a price; become not bondservants of men.
If any man destroyeth the temple of God, him shall God destroy; for the temple of God is holy, and such are ye.
For whether we live, we live unto the Lord; or whether we die, we die unto the Lord: whether we live therefore, or die, we are the Lord’s.
For none of us liveth to himself, and none dieth to himself.
Paul, calledto bean apostle of Jesus Christ through the will of God, and Sosthenes our brother, — read the full passage →
The thief cometh not, but that he may steal, and kill, and destroy: I came that they may have life, and may have it abundantly.
Therefore I say unto you, Be not anxious for your life, what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink; nor yet for your body, what ye shall put on. Is not the life more than the food, and the body than the raiment?
whatsoever ye do, work heartily, as unto the Lord, and not unto men;
Now ye are the body of Christ, and severally members thereof.
For even as we have many members in one body, and all the members have not the same office:
And let them make me a sanctuary, that I may dwell among them.
Be no longer a drinker of water, but use a little wine for thy stomach’s sake and thine often infirmities.
neither give place to the devil.
Know ye that Jehovah, he is God: It is he that hath made us, and we are his; We are his people, and the sheep of his pasture.
And they sing a new song, saying, Worthy art thou to take the book, and to open the seals thereof: for thou wast slain, and didst purchase unto God with thy blood men of every tribe, and tongue, and people, and nation,
For this is the will of God, even your sanctification, that ye abstain from fornication; — read the full passage →
in whom each several building, fitly framed together, groweth into a holy temple in the Lord; — read the full passage →
Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these: fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness, — read the full passage →
We heard him say, I will destroy this temple that is made with hands, and in three days I will build another made without hands.
And there was opened the temple of God that is in heaven; and there was seen in his temple the ark of his covenant; and there followed lightnings, and voices, and thunders, and an earthquake, and great hail.
For in one Spirit were we all baptized into one body, whether Jews or Greeks, whether bond or free; and were all made to drink of one Spirit.
And be not drunken with wine, wherein is riot, but be filled with the Spirit;
For the wages of sin is death; but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
The lamp of the body is the eye: if therefore thine eye be single, thy whole body shall be full of light. — read the full passage →
Or know ye not that the saints shall judge the world? and if the world is judged by you, are ye unworthy to judge the smallest matters?
All things are lawful; but not all things are expedient. All things are lawful; but not all things edify.
Meats for the belly, and the belly for meats: but God shall bring to nought both it and them. But the body is not for fornication, but for the Lord; and the Lord for the body: — read the full passage →
I fed you with milk, not with meat; for ye were not yet able to bear it: nay, not even now are ye able;
But if the Spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the dead dwelleth in you, he that raised up Christ Jesus from the dead shall give life also to your mortal bodies through his Spirit that dwelleth in you.
But the hour cometh, and now is, when the true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and truth: for such doth the Father seek to be his worshippers.
Think not that I came to destroy the law or the prophets: I came not to destroy, but to fulfil.
Herein is love made perfect with us, that we may have boldness in the day of judgment; because as he is, even so are we in this world.
who shall fashion anew the body of our humiliation, that it may be conformed to the body of his glory, according to the working whereby he is able even to subject all things unto himself.
I therefore, the prisoner in the Lord, beseech you to walk worthily of the calling wherewith ye were called, — read the full passage →
Having therefore these promises, beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from all defilement of flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.
For as the body is one, and hath many members, and all the members of the body, being many, are one body; so also is Christ.
Dare any of you, having a matter against his neighbor, go to law before the unrighteous, and not before the saints? — read the full passage →
Jesus saith unto her, Woman, believe me, the hour cometh, when neither in this mountain, nor in Jerusalem, shall ye worship the Father.
And the Word became flesh, and dwelt among us (and we beheld his glory, glory as of the only begotten from the Father), full of grace and truth.
Come unto me, all ye that labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.
Ye have heard that it was said, Thou shalt not commit adultery: — read the full passage →
Be still, and know that I am God: I will be exalted among the nations, I will be exalted in the earth.
how much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without blemish unto God, cleanse your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?
I exhort Euodia, and I exhort Syntyche, to be of the same mind in the Lord.
If there is therefore any exhortation in Christ, if any consolation of love, if any fellowship of the Spirit, if any tender mercies and compassions, — read the full passage →
Behold, I Paul say unto you, that, if ye receive circumcision, Christ will profit you nothing.
Ye know that when ye were Gentiles ye were led away unto those dumb idols, howsoever ye might be led.
Nay, already it is altogether a defect in you, that ye have lawsuits one with another. Why not rather take wrong? why not rather be defrauded?
And a certain man that was lame from his mother’s womb was carried, whom they laid daily at the door of the temple which is called Beautiful, to ask alms of them that entered into the temple;
For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith Jehovah, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you hope in your latter end.
These are they that were not defiled with women; for they are virgins. These are they that follow the Lamb whithersoever he goeth. These were purchased from among men, to be the firstfruits unto God and unto the Lamb.
ye also, as living stones, are built up a spiritual house, to be a holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.
Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honorable, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report; if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these things.
Beware of the dogs, beware of the evil workers, beware of the concision:
All things are lawful for me; but not all things are expedient. All things are lawful for me; but I will not be brought under the power of any.
Beloved, now are we children of God, and it is not yet made manifest what we shall be. We know that, if he shall be manifested, we shall be like him; for we shall see him even as he is.
Now this I say, brethren, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God; neither doth corruption inherit incorruption.
by which also ye are saved, if ye hold fast the word which I preached unto you, except ye believed in vain.
but brother goeth to law with brother, and that before unbelievers?
One man hath faith to eat all things: but he that is weak eateth herbs.
But him that is weak in faith receive ye, yet not for decision of scruples. — read the full passage →
For Christ is the end of the law unto righteousness to every one that believeth.
For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God, sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh:
For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus made me free from the law of sin and of death.
and Paul, as his custom was, went in unto them, and for three sabbath days reasoned with them from the scriptures,
She runneth therefore, and cometh to Simon Peter, and to the other disciple whom Jesus loved, and saith unto them, They have taken away the Lord out of the tomb, and we know not where they have laid him.
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