1 Corinthians 6:18

Flee from fornication. Every sin whatsoever that a man commits is outside of the body, but whoever fornicates, sins against his own body.

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In The King James Version

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

In Context

17But whoever is joined to the Lord is one spirit.

19Or do you not know that your bodies are the Temple of the Holy Spirit, who is in you, whom you have from God, and that you are not your own?

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Cross References

Leviticus 15:18The woman with whom he has had sexual intercourse shall be washed with water, and she shall be unclean until evening.

Proverbs 5:3For the lips of a loose woman are like a dripping honeycomb, and her voice is smoother than oil.

Proverbs 7:5So may she guard you from the woman who is an outsider, and from the stranger who sweetens her words.

Proverbs 9:16“Whoever is little, let him turn aside to me.” And to the frenzied, she said,

Romans 6:12Therefore, let not sin reign in your mortal body, such that you would obey its desires.

2 Corinthians 12:21If so, then, when I have arrived, God may again humble me among you. And so, I mourn for the many who sinned beforehand, and did not repent, over the lust and fornication and homosexuality, which they have 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 →

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