12 “All things are lawful for me,” but not all things are helpful. “All things are lawful for me,” but I will not be dominated 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 sexual immorality, but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body. 14 And God raised the Lord and will also raise us up by his power. 15 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! 16 Or do you not know that he who is joined to a prostitute becomes one body with her? For, as it is written, “The two will become one flesh.” 17 But he who is joined to the Lord becomes one spirit with him. 18 Flee from sexual immorality. Every other sin a person commits is outside the body, but the sexually immoral person sins against his own body. 19 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, 20 for you were bought with a price. So glorify God in your body.
Comment: Food is dealt with provocatively but briefly. Paul will pick up the food issue in depth later. But Paul weighs heavily into sex and its place in a Christian’s life. It is a safe assumption that Paul accepts the Genesis statements about sex and lifelong partnerships. What is sexual immorality? Our bodies are to be envisaged as totally belonging to Christ. What does ‘the two shall become one flesh’? mean. As a minimum it means that in marriage each partner owes their body sexually and exclusively to their marriage partner. Extra sex for money or any other motive is wrong! This is not modern thinking but Christ centred thinking! You think that you own your own body? Sorry, Paul says your body, if you are a believer, belongs to Christ!
Prayer: Thank You Father for the sanctity of marriage.
As I read it! 