Not My Own
Lesson 1: My Body Is _ Not My Own
September 4, 2022
Proverbs 29:18 When people do not accept divine guidance, they run wild. But whoever obeys the law is joyful. New Living Translation
God Purchased Your Body to Free Your Body
1 Corinthians 6:19 Do you not know that your bodies are temples of the Holy Spirit, who is in you, whom you have received from God? You are not your own; 20 you were bought at a price. Therefore honor God with your bodies. New International Version
1 Corinthians 6:19 Haven’t you yet learned that your body is the home of the Holy Spirit God gave you, and that he lives within you? Your own body does not belong to you. 20 For God has bought you with a great price. So use every part of your body to give glory back to God because he owns it. Living Bible
Your Body Has Been PURCHASED and YOU are FREE
Colossians 1:13 For he has rescued us out of the darkness and gloom of Satan’s kingdom and brought us into the Kingdom of his dear Son, 14 who bought our freedom with his blood and forgave us all our sins. Living Bible
1 Peter 2:9 But you are not like that, for you are a chosen (universally, choice, select, i.e. the best of its kind or class, excellent) people. You are royal priests, a holy nation, God’s very own possession. As a result, you can show others the goodness of God, for he called you out of the darkness into his wonderful light. New Living Translation
1 Peter 2:10 “Once you had no identity as a people; now you are God’s people. Once you received no mercy; now you have received God’s mercy.” New Living
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Your Body is FREE to LIVE FREE
Romans 6:6 We know that our old sinful selves were crucified with Christ so that sin might lose its power in our lives. We are no longer slaves to sin. 7 For when we died with Christ we were set free from the power of sin. New Living Translation
Romans 6:11 So you also should consider yourselves to be dead to the power of sin and alive to God through Christ Jesus. New Living Translation
Romans 6:12 Do not let sin control the way you live; do not give in to sinful desires. 13 Do not let any part of your body become an instrument of evil to serve sin. Instead, give yourselves completely to God, for you were dead, but now you have new life. So use your whole body as an instrument to do what is right for the glory of God. New Living Translation
Galatians 2:20 I have been crucified with Christ; and it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me; and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself up for me. New American Standard Bible