1 Corinthians 6:18
Flee fornication. Every sin, whatever a man may do, is outside the body, but he who fornicates sins against his own body.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
In Context
17But he who is joined to the Lord is one spirit.
Cross References
Leviticus 15:18The woman also with whom a man shall lay with seed of copulation, they shall both bathe themselves in water, and be unclean until the evening.
Proverbs 5:3For the lips of an interloping woman drop honey, and her mouth is smoother than oil.
Proverbs 7:5that they may keep thee from the interloping woman, from the stranger who flatters with her words.
Proverbs 9:16He who is simple, let him turn in here. And as for him who is void of understanding, she says to him,
Romans 6:12Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body in order to obey it, in its lusts.
2 Corinthians 12:21lest having come again my God will make me low toward you, and I will bewail many of those who have sinned previously, and who did not repent from the trash and fornication and licentiousness that they committed.
Matthew Henry on 1 Corinthians 6:13-20
Against Fornication. ( a. d. 57.) 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… Read the whole commentary →