1 Corinthians 6

Which worship songs are based on 1 Corinthians 6?

Pick a Side — Bryson Gray (2021) 1 Corinthians 6:9-10
The verse reproduces several categories from Paul's vice list and the warning that those described will not inherit God's kingdom.
False Teachers — Bryson Gray (2020) 1 Corinthians 6:9-13
The passage is explicitly cited, and the song directly reproduces its opening warning against being deceived while invoking its list of conduct incompatible with inheriting God's kingdom.
HOLD ME — CHANGETHEWXRLD (2023) 1 Corinthians 6:17
The speaker's claim of spiritual unity with God closely parallels Paul's statement that a person joined to the Lord becomes one spirit with him.
You Are All I'm Worth — Jon Guerra (2023) 1 Corinthians 6:19-20
The speaker describes himself as God's possession and his inner being as a sanctuary, closely reflecting Paul's teaching that believers belong to God, were purchased at a price, and are temples of the Holy Spirit.
GIVE IT ALL — Christopher Syncere & Rob Nor (2025) 1 Corinthians 6:19-20
The lyrics reference the concept of being a temple of the Holy Spirit, which aligns with the passage that speaks about believers' bodies being temples and the call to honor God with them.
Away — KB & Limoblaze (2023) 1 Corinthians 6:19-20
The chorus identifies the believer’s body as a sacred temple belonging to God, closely reflecting Paul’s teaching that the body is the temple of the Holy Spirit and should therefore honor God.
Out of My Hands — Jeremy Camp (2019) 1 Corinthians 6:19-20
The paired recognition that one’s life is not one’s own and that God dwells within closely reflects Paul’s teaching that believers belong to God and are indwelt by the Holy Spirit.
Temple — Brandon Lake (2020) 1 Corinthians 6:19
The chorus directly adopts Paul's teaching that a believer's body is a temple indwelt by the Holy Spirit. The song's singular, personal formulation especially matches this passage.
We Belong To You — I.D.O.4. (2021) 1 Corinthians 6:19-20
The communal declaration that believers do not own themselves but belong to God closely paraphrases Paul’s teaching that Christians are not their own because they have been bought at a price.
Like You, Lord — Jon Guerra (2023) 1 Corinthians 6:19-20
The chorus directly adapts Paul’s declaration that believers do not belong to themselves because they belong to God. Its first-person form turns Paul’s teaching into a confession of surrender.
O Great God — Sovereign Grace Music (2020) 1 Corinthians 6:19-20
The declaration that God purchased the worshiper, coupled with the prayer to belong wholly to him, reflects Paul’s teaching that believers are not their own because they were bought at a price.
My Heart Your Home (feat. Alton Eugene & Chandler Moore) — Maverick City Music & Chandler Moore & Alton Eugene (2020) 1 Corinthians 6:19
The song identifies human lives, rather than impressive religious buildings, as the dwelling place God chooses for his Spirit. This directly engages Paul’s image of the believer’s body as God’s temple.
I Am Not My Own — Keith & Kristyn Getty & Skye Peterson & The Getty Girls (2023) 1 Corinthians 6:19-20
The song closely follows Paul's teaching that the believer's body is the Holy Spirit's temple, was purchased at a cost, and therefore belongs to God and should honor him.
Shammah (feat. Anthony Brown) — Maverick City Music & Anthony Brown & Naomi Raine (2023) 1 Corinthians 6:19-20
The bridge identifies the worshiper as God's temple and therefore as a life belonging wholly to him. Its resulting posture of comprehensive surrender reflects Paul's appeal to honor God with the body because it is the Holy Spirit's dwelling place.
Different Story — Jon Thurlow (2017) 1 Corinthians 6:19-20
The bridge adopts Paul's language of belonging to God rather than to oneself, expressing that ownership through willing surrender to God's purposes.
Worship in the Moshpit — KB (2021) 1 Corinthians 6:19
KB describes himself as a temple inhabited by God, invoking Paul's teaching that the believer's body is a temple of the indwelling Holy Spirit.
Satan, Bite the Dust! — Carman (2017) 1 Corinthians 6:19-20
The singer uses Paul’s language of being purchased at a cost to ground his identity in belonging to God rather than himself.
Steffany's Prayer — Travis Greene (2019) 1 Corinthians 6:19-20
The prayer closely reproduces Paul’s declaration that believers were purchased at a price and therefore belong to God. Its appeal for Christ to receive the lives he purchased also fits Paul’s call to honor God with one’s whole person.
Jesus Is King — Chaotic Resemblance (2018) 1 Corinthians 6:19
The singer explicitly identifies himself as a temple inhabited by the Holy Spirit, closely restating Paul's teaching that the believer's body is the Spirit's temple.
Life Lines — Corey Mills (2018) 1 Corinthians 6:19
The singer describes his living body as a willing temple through which divine life and light operate, invoking Paul’s identification of the believer’s body as a temple of the Holy Spirit.
Hammer Time — Lecrae (2017) 1 Corinthians 6:19-20
Lecrae describes himself as belonging to God because he has been purchased rather than because he is morally perfect. This closely reflects Paul’s teaching that believers were bought at a price and therefore no longer belong to themselves.
Nextel — Parris Chariz (2020) 1 Corinthians 6:20
The song directly uses Paul’s formula for believers belonging to God because they were purchased at the cost of Christ’s sacrifice. Its context presents the artist’s life and labor as consequences of divine redemption rather than self-ownership.
Fire Emoji 4 — 808 BEEZY (2020) 1 Corinthians 6:20
The closing ownership language closely echoes Paul's declaration that believers were bought at a price. The song identifies Jesus as the one whose costly purchase establishes the artist's allegiance.
You Still Love Me — Koryn Hawthorne (2018) 1 Corinthians 6:20
The description of Christ paying a personal cost for the believer evokes Paul's image of Christians having been purchased at a price.
Broke — Lecrae (2017) 1 Corinthians 6:20
Lecrae describes himself as already purchased despite having no money, invoking Paul’s language of believers being bought at a price. The financial wordplay presents redemption, rather than material wealth, as the basis of his worth and belonging.

1 Corinthians 6 (King James Version)

¹ Dare any of you, having a matter against another, go to law before the unjust, and not before the saints?

² Do ye not know that the saints shall judge the world? and if the world shall be judged by you, are ye unworthy to judge the smallest matters?

³ Know ye not that we shall judge angels? how much more things that pertain to this life?

⁴ If then ye have judgments of things pertaining to this life, set them to judge who are least esteemed in the church.

⁵ I speak to your shame. Is it so, that there is not a wise man among you? no, not one that shall be able to judge between his brethren?

⁶ But brother goeth to law with brother, and that before the unbelievers.

⁷ Now therefore there is utterly a fault among you, because ye go to law one with another. Why do ye not rather take wrong? why do ye not rather suffer yourselves to be defrauded?

⁸ Nay, ye do wrong, and defraud, and that your brethren.

⁹ Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind,

¹⁰ Nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God.

¹¹ And such were some of you: but ye are washed, but ye are sanctified, but ye are justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and by the Spirit of our God.

¹² All things are lawful unto me, but all things are not expedient: all things are lawful for me, but I will not be brought under the power of any.

¹³ Meats for the belly, and the belly for meats: but God shall destroy both it and them. Now the body is not for fornication, but for the Lord; and the Lord for the body.

¹⁴ And God hath both raised up the Lord, and will also raise up us by his own power.

¹⁵ Know ye not that your bodies are the members of Christ? shall I then take the members of Christ, and make them the members of an harlot? God forbid.

¹⁶ What? know ye not that he which is joined to an harlot is one body? for two, saith he, shall be one flesh.

¹⁷ But he that is joined unto the Lord is one spirit.

¹⁸ Flee fornication. Every sin that a man doeth is without the body; but he that committeth fornication sinneth against his own body.

¹⁹ 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?

²⁰ For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God’s.