Christian Standard Bible
1 Corinthians 6:13
13“Food 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 but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body.
1 Corinthians 6:13 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)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.
- New International Version (NIV)You say, “Food for the stomach and the stomach for food, and God will destroy them both.” The body, however, is not meant for sexual immorality but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body.
- English Standard Version (ESV)"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 sexual immorality, but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body.
- New King James Version (NKJV)Foods for the stomach and the stomach for foods, but God will destroy both it and them. Now the body is not for sexual immorality but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body.
Context of 1 Corinthians 6:13
11And some of you used to be like this. But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God. 12“Everything is permissible for me,” but not everything is beneficial. “Everything is permissible for me,” but I will not be mastered by anything. “Food 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 but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body. 14God raised up the Lord and will also raise us up by his power. 15Don’t you know that your bodies are a part of Christ’s body? So should I take a part of Christ’s body and make it part of a prostitute? Absolutely not!
Read all of 1 Corinthians 61 Corinthians 6:13 word by word
τὰ βρώματα τῇ κοιλίᾳ καὶ ἡ κοιλία τοῖς βρώμασιν· ὁ δὲ θεὸς καὶ ταύτην καὶ ταῦτα καταργήσει. τὸ δὲ σῶμα οὐ τῇ πορνείᾳ ἀλλὰ τῷ κυρίῳ, καὶ ὁ κύριος τῷ σώματι·Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
- ·ὁho hē to · the/this/whoG3588
- Meatsβρῶμαbrōma · foodG1033
- for the bellyκοιλίαkoilia · belly/womb/stomachG2836
- andκαίkai · andG2532
- butδέde · thenG1161
- Godθεόςtheos · GodG2316
- shall destroyκαταργέωkatargeō · to abateG2673
- itοὗτοςhoutos houtoi hautē hautai · this/he/she/itG3778
- the bodyσῶμαsōma · bodyG4983
- notοὐou · noG3756
- for fornicationπορνείαporneia · sexual sinG4202
- butἀλλάalla · butG235
- for the Lordκύριοςkurios · lord: GodG2962
Cross-references for 1 Corinthians 6:13
- Matthew 15:17“Don’t you realize that whatever goes into the mouth passes into the stomach and is eliminated?
- Mark 7:19For it doesn’t go into his heart but into the stomach and is eliminated” (thus he declared all foods clean).
- Romans 14:17for the kingdom of God is not eating and drinking, but righteousness, peace, and joy in the Holy Spirit.
- 1 Corinthians 10:3They all ate the same spiritual food,
- John 6:27Don’t work for the food that perishes but for the food that lasts for eternal life, which the Son of Man will give you, because God the Father has set his seal of approval on him.”
- Colossians 2:22All these regulations refer to what is destined to perish by being used up; they are human commands and doctrines.
- 1 Corinthians 6:15Don’t you know that your bodies are a part of Christ’s body? So should I take a part of Christ’s body and make it part of a prostitute? Absolutely not!
- 1 Corinthians 3:16Don’t you yourselves know that you are God’s temple and that the Spirit of God lives in you?
- Romans 6:12Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal body, so that you obey its desires.
- Romans 7:4Therefore, my brothers and sisters, you also were put to death in relation to the law through the body of Christ so that you may belong to another. You belong to him who was raised from the dead in order that we may bear fruit for God.
- Romans 12:1Therefore, brothers and sisters, in view of the mercies of God, I urge you to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and pleasing to God; this is your true worship.
- Romans 14:7For none of us lives for himself, and no one dies for himself.
- 2 Corinthians 5:15And he died for all so that those who live should no longer live for themselves, but for the one who died for them and was raised.
- 2 Corinthians 11:2For I am jealous for you with a godly jealousy, because I have promised you in marriage to one husband — to present a pure virgin to Christ.
- Ephesians 5:23because the husband is the head of the wife as Christ is the head of the church. He is the Savior of the body.
- 1 Thessalonians 4:3For this is God’s will, your sanctification: that you keep away from sexual immorality,
Commentaries on 1 Corinthians 6:13
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 13Meats for the belly - I suppose that means the animal appetite, or propensity to food, etc., and we may conceive the apostle to reason thus: I acknowledge that God has provided different kinds of aliments for the appetite of man, and among others those which are generally offered to idols; and he has adapted the appetite to these aliments, and the aliments to the appetite: but God shall destroy both it and them; none of these is eternal; all these lower…Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 13Meats for the belly - This has every appearance of being an adage or proverb. Its meaning is plain. “God has made us with appetites for food; and he has made food adapted to such appetites, and it is right, therefore, to indulge in luxurious living.” The word “belly” here ́ koiliadenotes the “stomach;” and the argument is, that as God had created the natural appetite for food, and had created food, it was right to indulge in eating and drinking to any…Read the comment
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 12-20Verses 12-20 Some among the Corinthians seem to have been ready to say, All things are lawful for me. This dangerous conceit St. Paul opposes. There is a liberty wherewith Christ has made us free, in which we must stand fast. But surely a Christian would never put himself into the power of any bodily appetite. The body is for the Lord; is to be an instrument of righteousness to holiness, therefore is never to be made an instrument of sin. It is an honour…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 13-14"Food for the stomach and the stomach for food": Some Corinthian Christians used this idea to justify their sexual immorality. They claimed, "The body was made for sex, and sex for the body." This analogy is false because our bodies were made for the Lord, and sexual immorality does not honor him. Given his care for our bodies and the future resurrection, we must use our bodies for holy purposes in God's service.Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 1313. The argument drawn from the indifference of meats (1Co 8:8; Ro 14:14, 17; compare Mr 7:18; Col 2:20-22) to that of fornication does not hold good. Meats doubtless are indifferent, since both they and the "belly" for which they are created are to be "destroyed" in the future state. But "the body is not (created) for fornication, but for the Lord; and the Lord for the body" (as its Redeemer, who hath Himself assumed the body): "And God hath raised up…Read the comment
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