The Inner Self & Sexual Identity (Part 2)

Glorifying God in Body and Spirit

¹² “Everything is permissible^(A) for me,” but not everything is beneficial. “Everything is permissible for me,” but I will not be mastered by anything. ¹³ “Food^(B) is for the stomach and the stomach for food,” and God will do away with both of them. However, the body is not for sexual immorality^(C) but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body. ¹⁴ God raised up the Lord and will also raise us up by his power.^{(D) 15} Don’t you know that your bodies are a part of Christ’s body?^(E) So should I take a part of Christ’s body and make it part of a prostitute? Absolutely not! ¹⁶ Don’t you know that anyone joined to a prostitute is one body with her? For Scripture says, The two will become one flesh.^{[a](F) 17} But anyone joined^(G) to the Lord is one spirit^(H) with him.

¹⁸ Flee^(I) sexual immorality! Every other sin^[b] a person commits is outside the body, but the person who is sexually immoral^(J) sins against his own body. ¹⁹ Don’t you know that your body is a temple^(K) of the Holy Spirit^(L) who is in you,^(M) whom you have from God? You are not your own, ²⁰ for you were bought^(N) at a price. So glorify God with your body.^[c]