12aAll things are lawful for me, but all things are not1 helpful. All things are lawful for me, but I will not be brought under the power of2 any.
13aFoods for the stomach and the stomach for foods, but God will destroy both it and them. Now the body is not for bsexual immorality but cfor the Lord, dand the Lord for the body.
14 And aGod both raised up the Lord and will also raise us up bby His power.
15 Do you not know that ayour bodies are members of Christ? Shall I then take the members of Christ and make them members of a harlot? Certainly not!
16 Or do you not know that he who is joined to a harlot is one body withher? For a“the two,” He says, “shall become one flesh.”
17aBut he who is joined to the Lord is one spirit withHim.
raised up—rather, "raised," to distinguish it from "will raise up us"; the Greek of the latter being a compound, the former a simple verb. Believers shall be raised up out of the rest of the dead (see on Philippians 3:11); the first resurrection (Revelation 20:5).
us—Here he speaks of the possibility of his being found in the grave when Christ comes; elsewhere, of his being possibly found alive (I Thessalonians 4:17). In either event, the Lord's coming rather than death is the great object of the Christian's expectation (Romans 8:19).
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