34th Sunday after Pentecost - Sunday of the Prodigal Son
1 Cor. 6:12-20

A reading - from the First Letter of Saint Paul the Apostle to the Corinthians

Brothers and sisters: "Everything is lawful for me" but that does not mean that everything is good | for | me.

"Everything is lawful for me" - but I will not let myself be enslaved by a | ny | thing.

"Food is for the stomach and the stomach for food and God will do away with them both in the end" - but the body is not for immorality; it is for the lord, and the Lord is for | the | body.

God, who raised up 'the Lord will raise us also by his power. Do you not see that your bodies are members | of | Christ?

Would you have me take Christ's members and make them members of a prostitute? God | for | bid!

Can you not see that the man who is joined to a prostitute becomes one body with her? Scripture says, "the two shall become one flesh." But whoever is joined to the Lord becomes one spirit with him. Shun | lewd | conduct.

Every other sin a man commits is outside his body, but the fornicator sins against his own body. You must know that your body is a temple of the Holy spirit, who is within - the spirit you have received | from | God.

You are not your own. You have been purchased, at a price. So glorify God in - your - body.