1 Corinthians 6:18

WEB

¹⁸Flee sexual immorality! “Every sin that a man does is outside the body,” but he who commits sexual immorality sins against his own body.

KJV

¹⁸Flee fornication. Every sin that a man doeth is without the body; but he that committeth fornication sinneth against his own body.

BSB

¹⁸Flee from sexual immorality. Every other sin a man can commit is outside his body, but he who sins sexually sins against his own body.

FBV

¹⁸Stay away from sexual immorality! All other sins that people commit are outside of the body, but sexual immorality is a sin against your own body.

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Extra References

1 Peter 2:11

¹¹Beloved, I beg you as foreigners and pilgrims to abstain from fleshly lusts which war against the soul,

1 Thessalonians 4:3

³For this is the will of God: your sanctification, that you abstain from sexual immorality,

Colossians 3:5

⁵Put to death therefore your members which are on the earth: sexual immorality, uncleanness, depraved passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry.

¹²Therefore don’t let sin reign in your mortal body, that you should obey it in its lusts. ¹³Also, do not present your members to sin as instruments of unrighteousness, but present yourselves to God as alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness to God.

2 Timothy 2:22

²²Flee from youthful lusts; but pursue righteousness, faith, love, and peace with those who call on the Lord out of a pure heart.

Hebrews 13:4

⁴Let marriage be held in honor among all, and let the bed be undefiled; but God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterers.

Ephesians 5:3

³But sexual immorality, and all uncleanness or covetousness, let it not even be mentioned among you, as becomes saints;

1 Corinthians 6:9

⁹Or don’t you know that the unrighteous will not inherit God’s Kingdom? Don’t be deceived. Neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor male prostitutes, nor homosexuals,

1 Thessalonians 4:5

⁵not in the passion of lust, even as the Gentiles who don’t know God,

Proverbs 6:24-32

²⁴to keep you from the immoral woman, from the flattery of the wayward wife’s tongue. ²⁵Don’t lust after her beauty in your heart, neither let her captivate you with her eyelids. ²⁶For a prostitute reduces you to a piece of bread. The adulteress hunts for your precious life. ²⁷Can a man scoop fire into his lap, and his clothes not be burned? ²⁸Or can one walk on hot coals, and his feet not be scorched? ²⁹So is he who goes in to his neighbor’s wife. Whoever touches her will not be unpunished. ³⁰Men don’t despise a thief if he steals to satisfy himself when he is hungry, ³¹but if he is found, he shall restore seven times. He shall give all the wealth of his house. ³²He who commits adultery with a woman is void of understanding. He who does it destroys his own soul.