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Ezra ends in a cold rain, a whole assembly shivering in the square, choosing covenant over comfort. Paul writes to a warm port city about bodies, and lands on two words that reprice everything: bought, and price.
You are not your own. Read that as confinement and it chafes. Read it as belonging and it becomes the safest sentence you own.
The rain-soaked assembly and the letter to Corinth are asking one question from opposite ends of history: does belonging to God reach your actual life, your household, your body, or does it stop at the ceremony line? Ezra's generation answered in the December cold. Corinth was still deciding.
Bought at a price settles it. Your body is not a rental you can trash because grace covers the deposit. It is a temple with a Resident. That truth walked people into the rain in Jerusalem, and it can walk you out of whatever compromise has been arguing that your body is a private matter.