1 Corinthians 6:11-13

Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition

¹¹And such were some of you. But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and in the Spirit of our God.

Glorify God in Body and Spirit

¹²“All things are lawful for me,” but not all things are helpful. “All things are lawful for me,”^[a] but I will not be enslaved by anything. ¹³“Food is meant for the stomach and the stomach for food”—and God will destroy both one and the other. The body is not meant for immorality,^[b] but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body.

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Footnotes

6.12 This saying is possibly an exaggeration of the freedom from the Mosaic law that Christians enjoyed. The saying has been applied to sinful practices, as is clear from the following verses.
6.13, 18 immorality: i.e., sexual immorality.

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