But as a matter of fact, God has placed each of the members in the body just as he decided.

so that there may be no division in the body, but the members may have mutual concern for one another.

For even though I am absent physically, I am present in spirit. And I have already judged the one who did this, just as though I were present.

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!

Or do you not know that anyone who is united with a prostitute is one body with her? For it is said, “The two will become one flesh.”

Or do you not know that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have from God, and you are not your own?

and after he had given thanks he broke it and said, “This is my body, which is for you. Do this in remembrance of me.”

For this reason, whoever eats the bread or drinks the cup of the Lord in an unworthy manner will be guilty of the body and blood of the Lord.

For in one Spirit we were all baptized into one body. Whether Jews or Greeks or slaves or free, we were all made to drink of the one Spirit.

and those members we consider less honorable we clothe with greater honor, and our unpresentable members are clothed with dignity,

but our presentable members do not need this. Instead, God has blended together the body, giving greater honor to the lesser member,

If I give away everything I own, and if I give over my body in order to boast, but do not have love, I receive no benefit.

And what you sow is not the body that is to be, but a bare seed – perhaps of wheat or something else.

Is not the cup of blessing that we bless a sharing in the blood of Christ? Is not the bread that we break a sharing in the body of Christ?

and he is divided. An unmarried woman or a virgin is concerned about the things of the Lord, to be holy both in body and spirit. But a married woman is concerned about the things of the world, how to please her husband.