14|accept the injustice and leave it at that? Why not let yourselves be cheated?8 Instead, you yourselves are the ones who do wrong and cheat even yourfellow believers.9 Don’t you realize that those who do wrong will not inherit the Kingdom ofGod? Don’t fool yourselves. Those who indulge in sexual sin, or who worshipidols, or commit adultery, or are male prostitutes, or practice homosexuality, 10 or are thieves, or greedy people, or drunkards, or are abusive, or cheatpeople—none of these will inherit the Kingdom of God.11Some of you were once like that.Butyou were cleansed;you were made holy;you were made right with God by calling onthename of the Lord Jesus Christand by the Spirit of our God.Avoiding Sexual Sin12 You say, “I am allowed to do anything”—but not everything is good for you.And even though “I am allowed to do anything,” I must not become a slaveto anything. 13 You say, “Food was made for the stomach, and the stomach forfood.” (This is true, though someday God will do away with both of them.)But you can’t say that our bodies were made for sexual immorality. They weremade for the Lord, and the Lord cares about our bodies. 14 And God will raiseus from the dead by his power, just as he raised our Lord from the dead.15 Don’t you realize that your bodies are actually parts of Christ? Should aman take his body, which is part of Christ, and join it to a prostitute? Never!16 And don’t you realize that if a man joins himself to a prostitute, he becomesone body with her? For the Scriptures say, “The two are united into one.”17But the person who is joined to the Lordis one spirit with him.Run from sexual sin! No other sin so clearly affects the body as this onedoes. For sexual immorality is a sin against your own body. 19 Don’t you realizethat your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit, who lives in you and was givento you by God? You do not belong to yourself, 20 for God bought you with ahigh price. So you must honor God with your body.18Instruction on MarriageNow regarding the questions you asked in your letter. Yes, it is good toabstain from sexual relations. 2 But because there is so much sexual immorality, each man should have his own wife, and each woman should haveher own husband.3 The husband should fulfill his wife’s sexual needs, and the wife should7
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