Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

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.

General references

Bible References

Meats for

Matthew 15:17
Don't you understand that whatever goes into the mouth enters the stomach and then passes out into the sewer?
Mark 7:19
For it does not enter his heart but his stomach, and then goes out into the sewer." (This means all foods are clean.)
Romans 14:17
For the kingdom of God does not consist of food and drink, but righteousness, peace, and joy in the Holy Spirit.

But god

1 Corinthians 10:3
and all ate the same spiritual food,
John 6:27
Do not work for the food that disappears, but for the food that remains to eternal life -- the food which the Son of Man will give to you. For God the Father has put his seal of approval on him."
Colossians 2:22
These are all destined to perish with use, founded as they are on human commands and teachings.

But for

1 Corinthians 6:15
Do you not know that your bodies are members of Christ? Should I take the members of Christ and make them members of a prostitute? Never!
1 Corinthians 3:16
Do you not know that you are God's temple and that God's Spirit lives in you?
Romans 6:12
Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal body so that you obey its desires,
Romans 7:4
So, my brothers and sisters, you also died to the law through the body of Christ, so that you could be joined to another, to the one who was raised from the dead, to bear fruit to God.
Romans 12:1
Therefore I exhort you, brothers and sisters, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a sacrifice -- alive, holy, and pleasing to God -- which is your reasonable service.
Romans 14:7
For none of us lives for himself and none dies for himself.
2 Corinthians 5:15
And he died for all so that those who live should no longer live for themselves but for him who died for them and was raised.
2 Corinthians 11:2
For I am jealous for you with godly jealousy, because I promised you in marriage to one husband, to present you as a pure virgin to Christ.
Ephesians 5:23
because the husband is the head of the wife as also Christ is the head of the church -- he himself being the savior of the body.
1 Thessalonians 4:3
For this is God's will: that you become holy, that you keep away from sexual immorality,

General references

Mark 7:19
For it does not enter his heart but his stomach, and then goes out into the sewer." (This means all foods are clean.)

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