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Body Is A Temple
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Or don’t you know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit which is in you, which you have from God? You are not your own, — read the full passage →
Or don’t you know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit which is in you, which you have from God? You are not your own,
Don’t you know that you are a temple of God, and that God’s Spirit lives in you? — read the full passage →
for you were bought with a price. Therefore glorify God in your body and in your spirit, which are God’s.
Don’t you know that you are a temple of God, and that God’s Spirit lives in you?
“‘You shall not make any cuttings in your flesh for the dead, nor tattoo any marks on you. I am Yahweh.
Flee sexual immorality! “Every sin that a man does is outside the body,” but he who commits sexual immorality sins against his own body.
Don’t be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what is the good, well-pleasing, and perfect will of God.
Therefore I urge you, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your spiritual service.
What agreement has a temple of God with idols? For you 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 will be my people.”
But he spoke of the temple of his body.
Flee from youthful lusts; but pursue righteousness, faith, love, and peace with those who call on the Lord out of a pure heart.
For no man ever hated his own flesh; but nourishes and cherishes it, even as the Lord also does the assembly;
“Foods for the belly, and the belly for foods,” but God will bring to nothing both it and them. But the body is not for sexual immorality, but for the Lord; and the Lord for the body.
Now concerning the things about which you wrote to me: it is good for a man not to touch a woman. — read the full passage →
This is the Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things which must happen soon, which he sent and made known by his angel to his servant, John,
In the same way, that women also adorn themselves in decent clothing, with modesty and propriety; not just with braided hair, gold, pearls, or expensive clothing;
Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old things have passed away. Behold, all things have become new.
Don’t you know that we will judge angels? How much more, things that pertain to this life?
according to my earnest expectation and hope, that I will in no way be disappointed, but with all boldness, as always, now also Christ will be magnified in my body, whether by life, or by death.
For bodily exercise has some value, but godliness has value in all things, having the promise of the life which is now, and of that which is to come.
Put to death therefore your members which are on the earth: sexual immorality, uncleanness, depraved passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry;
Whether therefore you eat, or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God.
It is sown a natural body; it is raised a spiritual body. There is a natural body and there is also a spiritual body.
It is actually reported that there is sexual immorality among you, and such sexual immorality as is not even named among the Gentiles, that one has his father’s wife. — read the full passage →
Take heed, therefore, to yourselves, and to all the flock, in which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers, to shepherd the assembly of the Lord and God which he purchased with his own blood.
Don’t be afraid of those who kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul. Rather, fear him who is able to destroy both soul and body in Gehenna.
But you are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if it is so that the Spirit of God dwells in you. But if any man doesn’t have the Spirit of Christ, he is not his.
But sexual immorality, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not even be mentioned among you, as becomes saints;
He spoke also this parable to certain people who were convinced of their own righteousness, and who despised all others. — read the full passage →
Therefore I urge you, brothers, 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 one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life. — read the full passage →
“The lamp of the body is the eye. If therefore your eye is sound, your whole body will be full of light.
knowing that you were redeemed, not with corruptible things, with silver or gold, from the useless way of life handed down from your fathers, — read the full passage →
You were bought with a price. Don’t become bondservants of men.
If anyone destroys the temple of God, God will destroy him; for God’s temple is holy, which you are.
For if we live, we live to the Lord. Or if we die, we die to the Lord. If therefore we live or die, we are the Lord’s.
For none of us lives to himself, and none dies to himself.
Paul, called to be an apostle of Jesus Christ through the will of God, and our brother Sosthenes, — read the full passage →
The thief only comes to steal, kill, and destroy. I came that they may have life, and may have it abundantly.
Therefore I tell you, don’t be anxious for your life: what you will eat, or what you will drink; nor yet for your body, what you will wear. Isn’t life more than food, and the body more than clothing?
And whatever you do, work heartily, as for the Lord, and not for men,
Now you are the body of Christ, and members individually.
For even as we have many members in one body, and all the members don’t have the same function,
Let them make me a sanctuary, that I may dwell among them.
Be no longer a drinker of water only, but use a little wine for your stomach’s sake and your frequent infirmities.
neither give place to the devil.
Know that Yahweh, he is God. It is he who has made us, and we are his. We are his people, and the sheep of his pasture.
They sang a new song, saying, “You are worthy to take the book, and to open its seals: for you were killed, and bought us for God with your blood, out of every tribe, language, people, and nation,
For this is the will of God: your sanctification, that you abstain from sexual immorality, — read the full passage →
in whom the whole building, fitted together, grows into a holy temple in the Lord; — read the full passage →
Now the works of the flesh are obvious, which are: adultery, sexual immorality, uncleanness, lustfulness, — 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.’”
God’s temple that is in heaven was opened, and the ark of the Lord’s covenant was seen in his temple. Lightnings, sounds, thunders, an earthquake, and great hail followed.
For in one Spirit we were all baptized into one body, whether Jews or Greeks, whether bond or free; and were all given to drink into one Spirit.
Don’t be drunken with wine, in which is dissipation, 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 your eye is sound, your whole body will be full of light. — read the full passage →
Don’t you know that the saints will judge the world? And if the world is judged by you, are you unworthy to judge the smallest matters?
“All things are lawful for me,” but not all things are profitable. “All things are lawful for me,” but not all things build up.
“Foods for the belly, and the belly for foods,” but God will bring to nothing both it and them. But the body is not for sexual immorality, but for the Lord; and the Lord for the body. — read the full passage →
I fed you with milk, not with meat; for you weren’t yet ready. Indeed, not even now are you ready,
But if the Spirit of him who raised up Jesus from the dead dwells in you, he who raised up Christ Jesus from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through his Spirit who dwells in you.
But the hour comes, and now is, when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth, for the Father seeks such to be his worshipers.
“Don’t think that I came to destroy the law or the prophets. I didn’t come to destroy, but to fulfill.
In this love has been made perfect among us, that we may have boldness in the day of judgment, because as he is, even so are we in this world.
who will change the body of our humiliation to be conformed to the body of his glory, according to the working by which he is able even to subject all things to himself.
I therefore, the prisoner in the Lord, beg you to walk worthily of the calling with which you 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 has 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 said to her, “Woman, believe me, the hour comes, when neither in this mountain, nor in Jerusalem, will you worship the Father.
The Word became flesh, and lived among us. We saw his glory, such glory as of the one and only Son of the Father, full of grace and truth.
“Come to me, all you who labor and are heavily burdened, and I will give you rest.
“You have heard that it was said, ‘You shall 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 will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without defect to God, cleanse your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?
I exhort Euodia, and I exhort Syntyche, to think the same way 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 compassion, — read the full passage →
Behold, I, Paul, tell you that if you receive circumcision, Christ will profit you nothing.
You know that when you were heathen, you were led away to those mute idols, however you might be led.
Therefore it is already altogether a defect in you, that you have lawsuits one with another. Why not rather be wronged? Why not rather be defrauded?
A certain man who was lame from his mother’s womb was being carried, whom they laid daily at the door of the temple which is called Beautiful, to ask gifts for the needy of those who entered into the temple.
For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, says Yahweh, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you hope and a future.
These are those who were not defiled with women, for they are virgins. These are those who follow the Lamb wherever he goes. These were redeemed by Jesus from among men, the first fruits to God and to the Lamb.
You also, as living stones, are built up as a spiritual house, to be a holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.
Finally, brothers, whatever things are true, whatever things are honorable, whatever things are just, whatever things are pure, whatever things are lovely, whatever things are of good report; if there is any virtue, and if there is any praise, think about these things.
Beware of the dogs, beware of the evil workers, beware of the false circumcision.
“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 anything.
Beloved, now we are children of God, and it is not yet revealed what we will be. But we know that, when he is revealed, we will be like him; for we will see him just as he is.
Now I say this, brothers, that flesh and blood can’t inherit the Kingdom of God; neither does the perishable inherit imperishable.
by which also you are saved, if you hold firmly the word which I preached to you—unless you believed in vain.
But brother goes to law with brother, and that before unbelievers!
One man has faith to eat all things, but he who is weak eats only vegetables.
Now accept one who is weak in faith, but not for disputes over opinions. — read the full passage →
For Christ is the fulfillment of the law for righteousness to everyone who believes.
For what the law couldn’t do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God did, sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and for sin, he 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.
Paul, as was his custom, went in to them, and for three Sabbath days reasoned with them from the Scriptures,
Therefore she ran and came to Simon Peter, and to the other disciple whom Jesus loved, and said to them, “They have taken away the Lord out of the tomb, and we don’t know where they have laid him!”
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