1st Corinthians Chapter 6 verse 18 Holy Bible
Flee fornication. Every sin that a man doeth is without the body; but he that committeth fornication sinneth against his own body.
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Keep away from the desires of the flesh. Every sin which a man does is outside of the body; but he who goes after the desires of the flesh does evil to his body.
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Flee fornication. Every sin which a man may practise is without the body, but he that commits fornication sins against his own body.
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Flee fornication. Every sin that a man doeth is without the body; but he that committeth fornication sinneth against his own body.
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Flee sexual immorality! "Every sin that a man does is outside the body," but he who commits sexual immorality sins against his own body.
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flee the whoredom; every sin -- whatever a man may commit -- is without the body, and he who is committing whoredom, against his own body doth sin.
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 18. - Flee fornication. In the battle against sensual sins, there is no victory except in absolute flight, for the reason which immediately follows, namely, that these sins have their dwelling in that body which is part of our being, and which yet they tend to destroy. They make a man his own deadliest enemy. Every sin... is without the body. Some have supposed that this cannot apply to gluttony and drunkenness, which they therefore class with fornication; but even in those sins, as in suicide, the cause of and incentive to the sin is external, whereas the source of uncleanness is in the heart and in the thoughts, which come from within, and so defile the man. Other sins may be with and by means of the body, and may injure the body; but none are so directly against the sanctity of the whole bodily being as fornication. Sinneth against his own body. By alienating it from the service of him to whom it belongs; by incorporating it with the degradation of another; by staining the flesh and the body (Proverbs 5:8-11; Proverbs 6:24-32; Proverbs 7:24-27); by subtly poisoning the inmost sanctities of his own being. St. Paul is here thinking mainly, however, if not exclusively, of the moral injury and defilement.
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(18) Flee fornication.--These last three verses of the chapter contain a solemn exhortation to purity, arising out of the previous argument.Without the body.--The word "body" is still to be understood as used of the whole "human nature," which is spoken of in 1Corinthians 6:19 as the temple of the Holy Ghost. Other sins may profane only outer courts of the temple; this sin penetrates with its deadly foulness into the very holy of holies--"It hardens a' within, and petrifies the feelings."There is a deep significance and profound truth in the solemn words of the Litany, "From fornication, and all other deadly sin, good Lord, deliver us."
