Do you not know that your bodies are members of Christ? Shall I then take the members of Christ and make them members of a prostitute? Never!
because we are members of his body.
so we, though many, are one body in Christ, and individually members one of another.
and not holding fast to the Head, from whom the whole body, nourished and knit together through its joints and ligaments, grows with a growth that is from God.
Rather, speaking the truth in love, we are to grow up in every way into him who is the head, into Christ, from whom the whole body, joined and held together by every joint with which it is equipped, when each part is working properly, makes the body grow so that it builds itself up in love.
Now you are the body of Christ and individually members of it.
to equip the saints for the work of ministry, for building up the body of Christ,
But I want you to understand that the head of every man is Christ, the head of a wife is her husband, and the head of Christ is God.
Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit within you, whom you have from God? You are not your own,
For the husband is the head of the wife even as Christ is the head of the church, his body, and is himself its Savior.
He will come and destroy those tenants and give the vineyard to others.” When they heard this, they said, “Surely not!”
And he put all things under his feet and gave him as head over all things to the church, which is his body, the fullness of him who fills all in all.
But far be it from me to boast except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, by which the world has been crucified to me, and I to the world.
Is the law then contrary to the promises of God? Certainly not! For if a law had been given that could give life, then righteousness would indeed be by the law.
But if, in our endeavor to be justified in Christ, we too were found to be sinners, is Christ then a servant of sin? Certainly not!
“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.
Did that which is good, then, bring death to me? By no means! It was sin, producing death in me through what is good, in order that sin might be shown to be sin, and through the commandment might become sinful beyond measure.
What if some were unfaithful? Does their faithlessness nullify the faithfulness of God? By no means! Let God be true though every one were a liar, as it is written, “That you may be justified in your words, and prevail when you are judged.”
What then shall we say? That the law is sin? By no means! Yet if it had not been for the law, I would not have known sin. For I would not have known what it is to covet if the law had not said, “You shall not covet.”
What then? Are we to sin because we are not under law but under grace? By no means!
By no means! How can we who died to sin still live in it?
Do we then overthrow the law by this faith? By no means! On the contrary, we uphold the law.
But he said, “Far be it from me that I should do so! Only the man in whose hand the cup was found shall be my servant. But as for you, go up in peace to your father.”
By no means! For then how could God judge the world?
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