⛪ Your Body Is Not Your Own: Living for God in a “My Choice” Culture | 1 Corinthians 6 Devotional (7-Step QT)

7-Step QT Notes

1. 🙏 Quiet Time

Pause.

Take a deep breath.

Ask God to help you see your body, your choices, and your daily life through His truth.

2. 📅 May 21, 2026

Today’s passage reminds us:

Your body is not your own; it belongs to God and is meant to glorify Him.

3. ✝️ 1 Corinthians 6:12-20

Paul teaches that even if something is considered lawful, it is not always helpful, and believers must not be dominated by anything. Our bodies belong to Christ, are members of Christ, and are temples of the Holy Spirit because God bought us with a price. Therefore, believers must flee sin and glorify God with their bodies.

4. 📖 Key Verse

Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit within you, whom you have from God? You are not your own, for you were bought with a price. So glorify God in your body (vv. 19-20).

5. 📝 Reflection

We place great importance on ownership in this world. We say, “my house,” “my car,” “my job,” and even “my children” or “my spouse.” That is why society’s moral standards and laws strictly prohibit and punish coveting, stealing, or taking what does not belong to us.

Yet there is something deeply ironic. As modern Christians, we understand very well what ownership means. If God purchased us through Jesus Christ as the ransom price, then we should naturally acknowledge that we now belong to God. Strangely, however, we often resist accepting this truth. And this becomes the starting point of many problems within the church community.

Let me give you a simple, perhaps unusual, example to help us understand. Imagine that I sold the house I used to live in and moved to another one. Then one day, I return to that former house, force the door open, walk in, and insist, “This is my house.” What would happen? The police would come immediately and take me away. No matter how loudly I shout, “This is my house!” my protest would mean nothing, because that house no longer belongs to me.

Beloved brothers and sisters, are you children of God who have been saved? Then you no longer belong to yourselves. At the moment of your salvation, your ownership was transferred from the dominion of sin to God. More precisely, your ownership was restored to God, who is your rightful Owner. This is what we call redemption.

Therefore, when a redeemed person sins with the body, it defiles the temple of God. That is why sins committed with the body must never be taken lightly. Today, remember that your body belongs to God. Do not offer your body as an instrument of sin, but live a holy life that glorifies God.

6. 💬 What does this passage speak to you today?

  • Is there anything in my life that may be allowed but is not spiritually helpful?
  • What habits, desires, or patterns are beginning to control me?
  • Do I treat my body as my own possession or as a temple of the Holy Spirit?
  • How can I glorify God today through my body, choices, and lifestyle?

7. 🙏 Prayer

Lord, thank You for redeeming me through Jesus Christ.

Help me remember that I am not my own, because I was bought with a price.

Teach me to honor You with my body, my choices, my habits, and my whole life.

May my life become a living act of worship that glorifies You.

Amen.

Scriptures

📖 (1 Corinthians 6:12-20, ESV).

12 “All things are lawful for me,” but not all things are helpful. “All things are lawful for me,” but I will not be dominated by anything. 13 “Food is meant for the stomach and the stomach for food”—and God will destroy both one and the other. The body is not meant for sexual immorality, but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body. 14 And God raised the Lord and will also raise us up by his power. 15 Do you not know that your bodies are members of Christ? Shall I then take the members of Christ and make them members of a prostitute? Never! 16 Or do you not know that he who is joined to a prostitute becomes one body with her? For, as it is written, “The two will become one flesh.” 17 But he who is joined to the Lord becomes one spirit with him. 18 Flee from sexual immorality. Every other sin a person commits is outside the body, but the sexually immoral person sins against his own body. 19 Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit within you, whom you have from God? You are not your own, 20 for you were bought with a price. So glorify God in your body.

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