1 Corinthians 6:15-20 (KJV)
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.What? know ye not that he which is joined to an harlot is one body? for two, saith he, shall be one flesh.But he that is joined unto the Lord is one spirit.Flee fornication. Every sin that a man doeth is without the body; but he that committeth fornication sinneth against his own body.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?For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God’s.

This chapter contains four “Know ye not” statements, things the Word of God assumes a Christian ought to know:

That we shall judge angels
Vs 3

That the unrighteousness shall not inherit the kingdom of God
Vs 9

That our bodies are the members of Christ
Vs 15

That our body is the temple of the Holy Ghost
Vs 19

Note the difference between bodies in vs 15 and body in vs 19.

The individual bodies of each Christian compose the members of the body of Christ and the body of Christ, the whole local church and not the individual member, is the temple of the Holy Ghost. No doubt we ought to glorify God as individual believers. The scriptural way to do that, according to this passage, is in participation with our church. As we perform as members of the body of Christ God places is in, we bring glory to God.

A believer who forsakes or neglects his church denies glory to God through disunity to that which Christ loved and gave himself for.

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1 Corinthians 6:15-20 (KJV) Know Ye Not?

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