Chosen in His Service

Saturday, December 11, 2010

Meats for the belly

1Co 6:13 KJV
Meats for the belly, and the belly for meats: but God
shall destroy both it and them. Now the body [is] not for
fornication, but for the Lord; and the Lord for the body.

The Corinthians counted many things as indifferent
which were of themselves unlawful, as fornication, which
they numbered among mere natural and lawful desires, as
well as food and drink. Therefore the apostle shows that
they are utterly unlike: for foods, he says, were made for
the necessary use of man's life which is not perpetual:
for both foods, and all this manner of nourishing, are
quickly abolished.


But we must not so think of the
uncleanness of fornication, for which the body is not made,
but on the other hand is ordained to purity,
as appears by
this, that is consecrated to Christ, even as Christ
also is given us by his Father to enliven our bodies with
that power with which he also rose again.

http://www.ccel.org/g/geneva/notes/1Corinthians/6.html