12 All things are lawful unto me, but all things are not expedient: all things are lawful for me, but I will not be brought under the power of any.
13 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.
14 And God hath both raised up the Lord, and will also raise up us by his own power.
15 Know ye not that your bodies are the members of Christ? shall I then take the members of Christ, and make them the members of an harlot? God forbid.
16 What? know ye not that he which is joined to an harlot is one body? for two, saith he, shall be one flesh.
17 But he that is joined unto the Lord is one spirit.
18 Flee fornication. Every sin that a man doeth is without the body; but he that committeth fornication sinneth against his own body.
19 What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own?
20 For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God’s.
Paul was composing when the possibility that individuals' bodies were in any capacity sacred had next to no footing. Subjection was ordinary. Individuals' actual cravings were there to be fulfilled - 'Food is for the stomach and the stomach for food, as the truism went (section 13); it was the same with sex. In the Greek and Roman culture that ruled the old world, this implied that ladies fell off second best: their bodies were not their own.
Paul, in accordance with Jewish reasoning, challenges this: our bodies have a place with God. We are not made for others' utilization, yet to praise him. Neither would it be advisable for us we accept that anything we maintain that should do is correct or passable, in light of the fact that we maintain that should make it happen: we know the distinction between great and fiendishness, and we are called to pick what's a benefit.
Today, many individuals consider sex simply an actual exchange. Christians need to challenge that, similarly as we generally have. Be that as it may, what Paul says has a lot more extensive ramifications than this. There's a strong publicizing industry that requests our impulses for delight through utilization, status, and solace. Any of these in themselves checks out. In any case, Paul says that we are responsible to God for how we manage our bodies. That implies what we sustain them with, how we dress them, and how we care for them. In our Western purchaser society, we can without much of a stretch be enticed to fail to remember our obligation to God.