The Body Is the Lord’s
12All things are lawful for me, but not all things are profitable. All things are lawful for me, but I will not be mastered by anything. 13Food is for the stomach and the stomach is for food, but God will do away with both of them. Yet the body is not for immorality, but for the Lord, and the Lord is for the body. 14Now God has not only raised the Lord, but will also raise us up through His power. 15Do you not know that your bodies are members of Christ? Shall I then take away the members of Christ and make them members of a prostitute? May it never be! 16Or do you not know that the one who joins himself to a prostitute is one body with her? For He says, “THE TWO SHALL BECOME ONE FLESH.” 17But the one who joins himself to the Lord is one spirit with Him. 18Flee immorality. Every other sin that a man commits is outside the body, but the immoral man sins against his own body. 19Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have from God, and that you are not your own? 20For you have been bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body.
Here in this scripture we get a comparison of our mortal body to the spiritual body. Believers in Jesus Christ have their souls "set free" forever marked by God as His. His Holy Spirit, God resides in you! You are His temple. So when you sin, your mortal body grieves the Holy Spirit within you.
When you were a child, do you misbehave and do something that really grieved your parents? Did it leave a lasting impression in you?
This is an analogy of sin, how is should affect us and how God our Father sees us when we sin. It grieves Him deeply. Stop acting like a child. Be a mature Christian and try not to sin. When you do, repent!
You have been bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body.
Blessings, David
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