Sunday of the Prodigal Son

The Epistle for the Sunday of the Prodigal Son is 1 Corinthians 6:12-20 (WEB):

¹²"All things are lawful for me," but not all things are expedient. "All things are lawful for me," but I will not be brought under the power of anything. ¹³"Foods for the belly, and the belly for foods," but God will bring to nothing both it and them. But the body is not for sexual immorality, but for the Lord; and the Lord for the body. ¹⁴Now God raised up the Lord, and will also raise us up by his power. ¹⁵Don't you know that your bodies are members of Christ? Shall I then take the members of Christ, and make them members of a prostitute? May it never be! ¹⁶Or don't you know that he who is joined to a prostitute is one body? For, "The two," says he, "will become one flesh."* ¹⁷But he who is joined to the Lord is one spirit. ¹⁸Flee sexual immorality! "Every sin that a man does is outside the body," but he who commits sexual immorality sins against his own body. ¹⁹Or don't you know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit which is in you, which you have from God? You are not your own, ²⁰for you were bought with a price. Therefore glorify God in your body and in your spirit, which are God's.

1 Corinthians 6:12 (WEB) ¹²"All things are lawful for me," but not all things are expedient. "All things are lawful for me," but I will not be brought under the power of anything.

1 Corinthians 10:23 (WEB) ²³"All things are lawful for me," but not all things are profitable. "All things are lawful for me," but not all things build up.

Romans 14:14 (WEB) ¹⁴I know, and am persuaded in the Lord Jesus, that nothing is unclean of itself; except that to him who considers anything to be unclean, to him it is unclean.

1 Corinthians 6:13 (WEB) ¹³"Foods for the belly, and the belly for foods," but God will bring to nothing both it and them. But the body is not for sexual immorality, but for the Lord; and the Lord for the body.

Matthew 15:17, 20 (WEB) ¹⁷Don't you understand that whatever goes into the mouth passes into the belly, and then out of the body? … ²⁰These are the things which defile the man; but to eat with unwashed hands doesn't defile the man."

Romans 14:17 (WEB) ¹⁷for the Kingdom of God is not eating and drinking, but righteousness, peace, and joy in the Holy Spirit.

Romans 12:1 (WEB) ¹Therefore I urge you, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your spiritual service.

1 Thessalonians 4:3-7 (WEB) ³For this is the will of God: your sanctification, that you abstain from sexual immorality, ⁴that each one of you know how to possess himself of his own vessel in sanctification and honor, ⁵not in the passion of lust, even as the Gentiles who don't know God; ⁶that no one should take advantage of and wrong a brother or sister in this matter; because the Lord is an avenger in all these things, as also we forewarned you and testified. ⁷For God called us not for uncleanness, but in sanctification.

1 Corinthians 6:14 (WEB) ¹⁴Now God raised up the Lord, and will also raise us up by his power.

Romans 6:4-8 (WEB) ⁴We were buried therefore with him through baptism to death, that just like Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, so we also might walk in newness of life. ⁵For if we have become united with him in the likeness of his death, we will also be part of his resurrection; ⁶knowing this, that our old man was crucified with him, that the body of sin might be done away with, so that we would no longer be in bondage to sin. ⁷For he who has died has been freed from sin. ⁸But if we died with Christ, we believe that we will also live with him;

Romans 8:11 (WEB) ¹¹But if the Spirit of him who raised up Jesus from the dead dwells in you, he who raised up Christ Jesus from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through his Spirit who dwells in you.

2 Corinthians 4:14 (WEB) ¹⁴knowing that he who raised the Lord Jesus will raise us also with Jesus, and will present us with you.

John 5:28-29 (WEB) ²⁸Don't marvel at this, for the hour comes, in which all that are in the tombs will hear his voice, ²⁹and will come out; those who have done good, to the resurrection of life; and those who have done evil, to the resurrection of judgment.

John 6:39-40 (WEB) ³⁹This is the will of my Father who sent me, that of all he has given to me I should lose nothing, but should raise him up at the last day. ⁴⁰This is the will of the one who sent me, that everyone who sees the Son, and believes in him, should have eternal life; and I will raise him up at the last day."

John 11:25-26 (WEB) ²⁵Jesus said to her, "I am the resurrection and the life. He who believes in me will still live, even if he dies. ²⁶Whoever lives and believes in me will never die. Do you believe this?"

1 Corinthians 6:15 (WEB) ¹⁵Don't you know that your bodies are members of Christ? Shall I then take the members of Christ, and make them members of a prostitute? May it never be!

1 Corinthians 12:27 (WEB) ²⁷Now you are the body of Christ, and members individually.

Ephesians 5:30 (WEB) ³⁰because we are members of his body, of his flesh and bones.

1 Corinthians 6:16 (WEB) ¹⁶Or don't you know that he who is joined to a prostitute is one body? For, "The two," says he, "will become one flesh."*

Genesis 2:24 (WEB) ²⁴Therefore a man will leave his father and his mother, and will join with his wife, and they will be one flesh.

1 Corinthians 6:17 (WEB) ¹⁷But he who is joined to the Lord is one spirit.

1 Corinthians 12:13 (WEB) ¹³For in one Spirit we were all baptized into one body, whether Jews or Greeks, whether bond or free; and were all given to drink into one Spirit.

John 17:21-23 (WEB) ²¹that they may all be one; even as you, Father, are in me, and I in you, that they also may be one in us; that the world may believe that you sent me. ²²The glory which you have given me, I have given to them; that they may be one, even as we are one; ²³I in them, and you in me, that they may be perfected into one; that the world may know that you sent me, and loved them, even as you loved me.

1 Corinthians 6:18 (WEB) ¹⁸Flee sexual immorality! "Every sin that a man does is outside the body," but he who commits sexual immorality sins against his own body.

Genesis 39:12 (WEB) ¹²She caught him by his garment, saying, "Lie with me!"  He left his garment in her hand, and ran outside.

Romans 6:12-13 (WEB) ¹²Therefore don't let sin reign in your mortal body, that you should obey it in its lusts. ¹³Neither present your members to sin as instruments of unrighteousness, but present yourselves to God, as alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness to God.

2 Timothy 2:22 (WEB) ²²Flee from youthful lusts; but pursue righteousness, faith, love, and peace with those who call on the Lord out of a pure heart.

Hebrews 13:4 (WEB) ⁴Let marriage be held in honor among all, and let the bed be undefiled: but God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterers.

1 Peter 2:11 (WEB) ¹¹Beloved, I beg you as foreigners and pilgrims, to abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;

1 Corinthians 6:19 (WEB) ¹⁹Or don't you know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit which is in you, which you have from God? You are not your own,

1 Corinthians 3:16 (WEB) ¹⁶Don't you know that you are a temple of God, and that God's Spirit lives in you?

2 Corinthians 6:16 (WEB) ¹⁶What agreement has a temple of God with idols? For you are a temple of the living God. Even as God said, "I will dwell in them, and walk in them; and I will be their God, and they will be my people."*

1 Peter 2:5 (WEB) ⁵You also, as living stones, are built up as a spiritual house, to be a holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.

Psalms 100:3 (WEB)

³Know that Yahweh, he is God.

It is he who has made us, and we are his.

We are his people, and the sheep of his pasture.

2 Corinthians 5:15 (WEB) ¹⁵He died for all, that those who live should no longer live to themselves, but to him who for their sakes died and rose again.

Titus 2:14 (WEB) ¹⁴who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify for himself a people for his own possession, zealous for good works.

1 Corinthians 6:20 (WEB) ²⁰for you were bought with a price. Therefore glorify God in your body and in your spirit, which are God's.

Galatians 3:13 (WEB) ¹³Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law, having become a curse for us. For it is written, "Cursed is everyone who hangs on a tree,"*

Hebrews 9:12 (WEB) ¹²nor yet through the blood of goats and calves, but through his own blood, entered in once for all into the Holy Place, having obtained eternal redemption.

1 Peter 1:18 (WEB) ¹⁸knowing that you were redeemed, not with corruptible things, with silver or gold, from the useless way of life handed down from your fathers,

Revelation 5:9 (WEB)

⁹They sang a new song, saying,

"You are worthy to take the book,

and to open its seals:

for you were killed,

and bought us for God with your blood,

out of every tribe, language, people, and nation,