Don't you understand? Anything that goes into your mouth goes into your stomach and then on out of your body.

These are the things that make you unclean. But to eat without washing your hands as they say you should---this doesn't make you unclean."

because it does not go into your heart but into your stomach and then goes on out of the body." (In saying this, Jesus declared that all foods are fit to be eaten.)

For God's Kingdom is not a matter of eating and drinking, but of the righteousness, peace, and joy which the Holy Spirit gives.

All ate the same spiritual bread

But even then God was not pleased with most of them, and so their dead bodies were scattered over the desert.

Do not work for food that spoils; instead, work for the food that lasts for eternal life. This is the food which the Son of Man will give you, because God, the Father, has put his mark of approval on him."

Your ancestors ate manna in the desert, but they died.

All these refer to things which become useless once they are used; they are only human rules and teachings.

Of course such rules appear to be based on wisdom in their forced worship of angels, and false humility, and severe treatment of the body; but they have no real value in controlling physical passions.

You know that your bodies are parts of the body of Christ. Shall I take a part of Christ's body and make it part of the body of a prostitute? Impossible!

Don't you know that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit, who lives in you and who was given to you by God? You do not belong to yourselves but to God;

Surely you know that you are God's temple and that God's Spirit lives in you!

Sin must no longer rule in your mortal bodies, so that you obey the desires of your natural self.

That is how it is with you, my friends. As far as the Law is concerned, you also have died because you are part of the body of Christ; and now you belong to him who was raised from death in order that we might be useful in the service of God.

So then, my friends, because of God's great mercy to us I appeal to you: Offer yourselves as a living sacrifice to God, dedicated to his service and pleasing to him. This is the true worship that you should offer.

We do not live for ourselves only, and we do not die for ourselves only.

For Christ died and rose to life in order to be the Lord of the living and of the dead.

He died for all, so that those who live should no longer live for themselves, but only for him who died and was raised to life for their sake.

I am jealous for you, just as God is; you are like a pure virgin whom I have promised in marriage to one man only, Christ himself.

For a husband has authority over his wife just as Christ has authority over the church; and Christ is himself the Savior of the church, his body.

God wants you to be holy and completely free from sexual immorality.

not with a lustful desire, like the heathen who do not know God.

God did not call us to live in immorality, but in holiness.