◄ 1 Corinthians 6:18 ►
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Good News Translation
Avoid immorality. Any other sin a man commits does not affect his body; but the man who is guilty of sexual immorality sins against his own body.

New Revised Standard Version
Shun fornication! Every sin that a person commits is outside the body; but the fornicator sins against the body itself.

Contemporary English Version
Don't be immoral in matters of sex. That is a sin against your own body in a way no other sin is.

New American Bible
Avoid immorality. Every other sin a person commits is outside the body, but the immoral person sins against his own body.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Fly fornication. Every sin that a man doth is without the body: but he that committeth fornication sinneth against his own body.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Fly fornication. Every sin that a man doth is without the body: but he that committeth fornication sinneth against his own body.

Flee.

Genesis 39:12-18 And she catching the skirt of his garment, said: Lie with me. But he leaving the garment in her hand, fled, and went out. . . .

Proverbs 2:16-19 And forsaketh the guide of her youth, . . .

Proverbs 5:3-15 But her end is bitter as wormwood, and sharp as a two-edged sword. . . .

Proverbs 6:24-32 Let not thy heart covet her beauty, be not caught with her winks: . . .

Proverbs 7:5 For I looked out of the window of my house through the lattice,

*etc:

Proverbs 7:24-27 Let not thy mind be drawn away in her ways: neither be thou deceived with her paths. . . .

Proverbs 9:16-18 Stolen waters are sweeter, and hidden bread is more pleasant. . . .

Romans 6:12,13 Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, so as to obey the lusts thereof. . . .

2 Timothy 2:22 But flee thou youthful desires, and pursue justice, faith, charity and peace with them that call on the Lord out of a pure heart.

Hebrews 13:4 Marriage honourable in all, and the bed undefiled. For fornicators and adulterers God will judge.

1 Peter 2:11 Dearly beloved, I beseech you, as strangers and pilgrims, to refrain yourselves from carnal desires which war against the soul,

sinneth.

Romans 1:24 Wherefore, God gave them up to the desires of their heart, unto uncleanness: to dishonour their own bodies among themselves.

1 Thessalonians 4:5 Not in the passion of lust, like the Gentiles that know not God:

Context
The Temple of the Holy Spirit
17But he who is joined to the Lord is one spirit. 18Fly fornication. Every sin that a man doth is without the body: but he that committeth fornication sinneth against his own body. 19Or know you not that your members are the temple of the Holy Ghost, who is in you, whom you have from God: and you are not your own?…
Cross References
1 Corinthians 6:9
Know you not that the unjust shall not possess the kingdom of God? Do not err: Neither fornicators nor idolaters nor adulterers:

2 Corinthians 12:21
Lest again, when I come, God humble me among you: and I mourn many of them that sinned before and have not done penance for the uncleanness and fornication and lasciviousness that they have committed.

Galatians 5:19
Now the works of the flesh are manifest: which are fornication, uncleanness, immodesty, luxury,

Ephesians 5:3
But fornication and all uncleanness or covetousness, let it not so much as be named among you, as becometh saints:

Colossians 3:5
Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth: fornication, uncleanness, lust, evil concupiscence and covetousness, which is the service of idols.

1 Thessalonians 4:3
For this is the will of God, your sanctification: That you should abstain from fornication:

Hebrews 13:4
Marriage honourable in all, and the bed undefiled. For fornicators and adulterers God will judge.

1 Corinthians 6:17
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