The first verse sums up everything. "'Everything is permissible for me' - but not everything is beneficial."
We can do whatever we want, but we only go back and hurt ourselves if we follow the path of sexual immorality. And what is it exactly?
16"Do you not know that he who unites himself with a prostitute is one with her in body? God it is said, 'The two will become one flesh.'" Makes me think that uniting with anyone aside from the spirit is wrong. It hurts us because of the uniting and the breaking, it hurts God because our bodies is his temple.
I just realized, our bodies being a temple also goes along with the idea of living out our lives in a Christ-like way. Everyone looks to the temple for what the faith looks like don't they?
This verse also hits home to me. I've been struggling with my own sexuality and issues concerning it. It puts it plainly: it's wrong. "The body is not meant for sexual immorality, but for the Lord" "Therefore honor God with your body" One thing to know, another to act on it. But my spirit longs for that uniting with God and only God. I want to be one with him. I want my life to be of only him. Again, words are easy to say, hard to do.
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