“Know ye not that your bodies are the members of Christ?” “What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own? For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God’s.” 1 Corinthians 6:15, 19, 20. Our bodies are Christ’s purchased property, and we are not at liberty to do with them as we please. Man has done this. He has treated his body as if its laws had no penalty. Through perverted appetite its organs and powers have become enfeebled, diseased, and crippled. And these results which Satan has brought about by his own specious temptations he uses to taunt God with. He presents before God the human body that Christ has purchased as His property, and what an unsightly representation of his Maker man is! Because man has sinned against his body and has corrupted his ways, God is dishonored. {6T 369.2}

»Ved I ikke, at jeres legemer er Kristi lemmer?« Eller ved I ikke, at jeres legeme er et tempel for Helligånden, som er i jer og som I har fra Gud og at I ikke tilhører jer selv? I er jo købt og prisen betalt; ær derfor Gud i jeres legeme!« 1.Kor.6,15.19.20. Vore legemer er Kristi købte ejendom og vi er ikke fri til at gøre med dem som vi vil. Dette har mennesket gjort. Det har behandlet sit legeme som om overtrædelse af dets love ikke blev straffet. På grund af en forvansket appetit er dets organer og kræfter blevet svækket, sygeliggjort og forkrøblet. Og disse resultater, som Satan har fremkaldt ved sine egne besnærende fristelser, bruger han til at håne Gud med. Han bringer det menneskelegeme som Kristus har købt til ejendom, frem for Gud og hvilken grim fremstilling af sin Skaber, er mennesket dog ikke blevet til?! Fordi mennesket har syndet mod sit legeme og har fordærvet hans veje, er Gud vanæret.