In the Broadman Commentary it talks most about how the Corinthians were using a phrase of the day to justify the practice of sexual immoralities. Food is for the belly and the belly for food. They were tying to tie that saying with a philosophy that the body was meant for sexual things and that sexual things were meant for the body, these being very similar. The commentary goes on to say that Paul "strongly disagrees with the application the Corinthians make." (pg. 325) One can not tie food for the stomach and body for sex. He thought that his was a serious misunderstanding of the Corinthians. He was trying to get them to think that the body was not for there personal sexual pleasures but for the glory of God.

In the NIV Applied Commentary it talks about how the "Corinthians were apparently inferring from the relatively accurate observation that food and stomach were made for each other that the body and sexual release were identically related. Afte

In The Letters to the Corinthians it talks about how the Greeks did not think that the body was not an important thing. They went to the point that they looked down on the body. The important thing was the soul, the spirit of a man; the body was a thing that did not matter. The Corinthians had an outlook on the body, that "since the body was of no importance, you could do what you liked with it; you could let it sate its appetites." (pg. 55) The support was the phrase that "Food was made for the belly and the belly for food." He says that the "Stomach and food are passing things", "But the body, the personality, the man as a whole will not pass away; he is made for union with Christ in this world and still closer union hereafter." (pg. 56) The man is not made for the sex but for the Lord.

"Food is for the belly and the belly for food" Why would Paul put this common phrase into his sermon on sexual immorality and fortification? It would seem to encourage the Corinthians that they are doing good in following the console of the philosophers. I feel that he is merle agreeing with the common phrase that food was for the stomach. He was doing more than that though. He was trying to get them to think about what they were doing. They were trying to separate the body and the soul. They were simplifying t

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