1 Cor 6:9-20 is the theological foundation for the second essay in First Corinthians. Paul expresses, several times, an unwillingness to believe that they do not know the basic things of Christianity that shape our theology of sexuality. And Paul uses these basic doctrines — doctrines of redemption and the resurrection, the doctrine of the Trinity, and especially the doctrine of the church (the body of Christ) to lay out that theological foundation. He even plays on the double meaning of the word body in the Christian vocabulary — for your individual bodies and for the church — to make the point. And at the climax of the second half of the passage is the Scripture quote: “the two shall become one flesh,” which is about Christ and His church but also has implications for this category of sinful behaviors. Thus may you remember who you are — you belong to Christ.
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