Ecological Paraphrase of 1 Cor 6:13c-15a, 17-20

Brothers and sisters:
The earth is not for immorality, but for God,
and God is for the earth;
God created the earth and also created us to care for the earth.

Do you not know that all creation are members of the Christ?
And so all joined to the Christ become one Spirit with God.
Avoid being immoral to the earth.
Every other sin a person commits does not dishonor the earth,
but the immoral person sins against our own earth.
Do you not know that our earth
is a temple of the Holy Spirit for us,
the home we have from God, so that we do not own the earth?
Do not sell the earth for any price.
Rather glorify God in how you care for the earth, God’s creation.



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