body language

²⁰For you have been bought at a great price. Glorify and carry God in your body.

⁸For the exercise of the body is somewhat useful. But piety is useful in all things, holding the promise of life, in the present and in the future.

³¹Therefore, whether you eat or drink, or whatever else you may do, do everything for the glory of God.

¹And so, I beg you, brothers, by the mercy of God, that you offer your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and pleasing to God, with the subservience of your mind. ²And do not choose to be conformed to this age, but instead choose to be reformed in the newness of your mind, so that you may demonstrate what is the will of God: what is good, and what is well-pleasing, and what is perfect.

³For this is the will of God, your sanctification: that you should abstain from fornication, ⁴that each one of you should know how to possess his vessel in sanctification and honor, ⁵not in passions of lust, like the Gentiles who do not know God,

¹Jesus said these things, and then, lifting up his eyes toward heaven, he said: “Father, the hour has arrived: glorify your Son, so that your Son may glorify you, ²just as you have given authority over all flesh to him, so that he may give eternal life to all those whom you have given to him. ³And this is eternal life: that they may know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom you have sent. ⁴I have glorified you on earth. I have completed the work that you gave me to accomplish. ⁵And now Father, glorify me within yourself, with the glory that I had with you before the world ever was. ⁶I have manifested your name to the men whom you have given to me from the world. They were yours, and you gave them to me. And they have kept your word.

²³which is his body and which is the fullness of him who accomplishes everything in everyone.

²²The lamp of your body is your eye. If your eye is wholesome, your entire body will be filled with light. ²³But if your eye has been corrupted, your entire body will be darkened. If then the light that is in you is darkness, how great will that darkness be!

¹⁷Therefore, he who knows that he ought to do a good thing, and does not do it, for him it is a sin.

²⁷And God created man to his own image; to the image of God he created him; male and female, he created them.

¹Now concerning spiritual things, I do not want you to be ignorant, brothers. ²You know that when you were Gentiles, you approached mute idols, doing what you were led to do. ³Because of this, I would have you know that no one speaking in the Spirit of God utters a curse against Jesus. And no one is able to say that Jesus is Lord, except in the Holy Spirit. ⁴Truly, there are diverse graces, but the same Spirit. ⁵And there are diverse ministries, but the same Lord. ⁶And there are diverse works, but the same God, who works everything in everyone.