1 Corinthians 6:18

Flee from immorality. Every other sin that a man commits lies outside the body, but the immoral man sins against his own body.

Montgomery New Testament

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

17While a man who is united with the Lord is one with Him in spirit?

19Do you not know that your body is a sanctuary of the Holy Spirit who is within you, the Spirit whom you have from God?

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Cross References

Romans 6:12Therefore let not sin rule as king in your mortal body, compelling you to obey its lusts.

2 Corinthians 12:21and lest when I come again my God may humble me before you, and lest I shall mourn for many those who have sinned before, and have not repented of the impurity and immorality and wantonness 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 →

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