⁹ You know that wicked people will not inherit the kingdom of God, don’t you? Stop deceiving yourselves! Sexually immoral people, idolaters, adulterers, male prostitutes, homosexuals, ¹⁰ thieves, greedy people, drunks, slanderers, and robbers will not inherit the kingdom of God. ¹¹ That is what some of you were! But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of our Lord Jesus the Messiah^[a] and by the Spirit of our God.

Morality in Sexual Matters

¹² Everything is permissible for me, but not everything is helpful. Everything is permissible for me, but I will not allow anything to control me. ¹³ Food is for the stomach, and the stomach is for food, but God will make them both unnecessary. The body is not meant for sexual immorality but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body. ¹⁴ God raised the Lord, and by his power he will also raise us.

¹⁵ You know that your bodies belong to the Messiah,^[b] don’t you? Should I take what belongs to the Messiah^[c] and unite them with a prostitute? Certainly not!

³ Do not let sexual sin, impurity of any kind, or greed even be mentioned among you, as is proper for saints.