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NASB | 1 Corinthians 6:19 Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have from God, and that you are not your own? |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | 1 Corinthians 6:19 Do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit who is within you, whom you have [received as a gift] from God, and that you are not your own [property]? |
Subject: regulation regarding tattooing |
Bible Note: Beja, Here is a place where I think Paul is setting a principle as well, not merely a single effect statement. 1Co 7:18 Was any man called when he was already circumcised? He is not to become uncircumcised. Has anyone been called in uncircumcision? He is not to be circumcised. 1Co 7:19 Circumcision is nothing, and uncircumcision is nothing, but what matters is the keeping of the commandments of God. So we see that cuts or marks or doing something to the body is absolutely irrelevant. If we have them, we should not seek to remove them as if doing so would improve our standing with God. If we don't have them, we should not seek to gain them as if gaining them improved our standing with the Lord. None of these things mean anything and are indeed left over notions from Jewish ceremonial laws. I agree whole heartedly that our body is a temple which we should not defile. But Christ has clearly taught us what defiles us! Mat 15:18 "But the things that proceed out of the mouth come from the heart, and those defile the man. Mat 15:19 "For out of the heart come evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, slanders. Mat 15:20 "These are the things which defile the man; but to eat with unwashed hands does not defile the man." All the other things that supposidly "defile" the body or man were but pictures so we could understand the concept of defilement. The purpose was that we might have the proper categories to understand sin and its effects on us and our need for clensing. It is the heart and the sin of the heart or the righteousness of the heart. We defile the temple of our body by the sinfulness of our hearts and minds and actions, not by ink. In Christ, Beja |