11. Some of you used to do those things. But your sins were washed away. You were made holy. You were made right with God. All of that was done in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God.
12. Some of you say, "Everything is permitted for me." But not everything is good for me. Again some of you say, "Everything is permitted for me." But I will not be controlled by anything.
13. Some of you say, "Food is for the stomach. And the stomach is for food." But God will destroy both of them. The body is not meant for sexual sins. The body is meant for the Lord. And the Lord is meant for the body.
14. By his power God raised the Lord from the dead. He will also raise us up.
15. Don't you know that your bodies belong to the body of Christ? Should I take what belongs to Christ and join it to a prostitute? Never!
16. Don't you know that when you join yourself to a prostitute, you become one with her in body? Scripture says, "The two will become one." (Genesis 2:24)
17. But anyone who is joined to the Lord becomes one with him in spirit.
18. Keep far away from sexual sins. All the other sins a person commits are outside his body. But sexual sins are sins against one's own body.
19. Don't you know that your bodies are temples of the Holy Spirit? The Spirit is in you. You have received him from God. You do not belong to yourselves.