"...Better to marry than to burn” (1 Corinthians 7:9).

How often have we heard someone say: “This is my body and I can do with it as I please?”

While we all have free will to do with our body as we please, we must not overlook the fact that we did not create our own body (Jeremiah 32:27).  

“For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ; that every one may receive the things done in his body, according to that he hath done, whether it be good or bad” (2 Corinthians 5:10).

“Now the body is not for fornication, but for the Lord; and the Lord for the body. Flee fornication. Every sin that a man doeth is without the body; but he that committeth fornication sinneth against his own body” (1 Corinthians 6:13).

“Now concerning the things whereof ye wrote unto me: It is good for a man not to touch a woman. Nevertheless, to avoid fornication, let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband. But if they cannot contain, let them marry: for it is better to marry than to burn” (1 Corinthians 7:1-2, 9).