1 Corinthians 6:18
Flee fornication. Every sin which a man may practise is without the body, but he that commits fornication sins against his own body.
Darby Translation
In The King James Version
In Context
17But he that [is] joined to the Lord is one Spirit.
Cross References
Leviticus 15:18And a woman with whom a man lieth with seed of copulation they shall bathe in water, and be unclean until the even.
Proverbs 5:3For the lips of the strange woman drop honey, and her mouth is smoother than oil;
Proverbs 7:5that they may keep thee from the strange woman, from the stranger who flattereth with her words.
Proverbs 9:16Whoso is simple, let him turn in hither. And to him that is void of understanding she saith,
Romans 6:12Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body to obey its lusts.
2 Corinthians 12:21lest my God should humble me as to you when I come again, and that I shall grieve over many of those who have sinned before, and have not repented as to the uncleanness and fornication and licentiousness which they have practised.
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 →