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New Living Translation

1 Corinthians 6:18

Run from sexual sin! No other sin so clearly affects the body as this one does. For sexual immorality is a sin against your own body.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Adultery;   Chastity;   Hygiene;   Lasciviousness;   Righteous;   Thompson Chain Reference - Chastity-Impurity;   Fornication;   The Topic Concordance - Sexual Activities;   Sin;   Whoredom;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Chastity;  

Dictionaries:

- Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Adultery;   Body;   Corinth;   Fornication;   Marriage;   Prostitution;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Blasphemy against the Holy Spirit;   Corinthians, First and Second, Theology of;   Holy, Holiness;   Paul the Apostle;   Prostitution;   Sanctification;   Worship;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Adultery;   Athaliah;   Concubine;   Harlot;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Body;   Church;   Fertility Cult;   Fornication;   Humanity;   Immorality;   Marriage;   Philosophy in the New Testament;   Prostitution;   1 Corinthians;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Corinthians, First Epistle to the;   Marriage;   Paul the Apostle;   Sanctification, Sanctify;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Abstinence;   Commandment;   Fornication ;   Marriage;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Crime;   Jude, the Epistle of;   Papyrus;   Text and Manuscripts of the New Testament;  

Devotionals:

- Every Day Light - Devotion for May 31;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Flee sexual immorality! Every other sin a person commits is outside the body, but the person who is sexually immoral sins against his own body.
King James Version (1611)
Flee fornication: Euery sinne that a man doeth, is without the body: but he that committeth fornication, sinneth against his owne body.
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.
English Standard Version
Flee from sexual immorality. Every other sin a person commits is outside the body, but the sexually immoral person sins against his own body.
New American Standard Bible
Flee sexual immorality. Every other sin that a person commits is outside the body, but the sexually immoral person sins against his own body.
New Century Version
So run away from sexual sin. Every other sin people do is outside their bodies, but those who sin sexually sin against their own bodies.
Amplified Bible
Run away from sexual immorality [in any form, whether thought or behavior, whether visual or written]. Every other sin that a man commits is outside the body, but the one who is sexually immoral sins against his own body.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
Flee immorality. Every other sin that a man commits is outside the body, but the immoral man sins against his own body.
Legacy Standard Bible
Flee sexual immorality. Every other sin that a man commits is outside the body, but the sexually immoral man sins against his own body.
Berean Standard Bible
Flee from sexual immorality. Every other sin a man can commit is outside his body, but he who sins sexually sins against his own body.
Contemporary English Version
Don't be immoral in matters of sex. That is a sin against your own body in a way that no other sin is.
Complete Jewish Bible
Run from sexual immorality! Every other sin a person commits is outside the body, but the fornicator sins against his own body.
Darby Translation
Flee fornication. Every sin which a man may practise is without the body, but he that commits fornication sins against his own body.
Easy-to-Read Version
So run away from sexual sin. It involves the body in a way that no other sin does. So if you commit sexual sin, you are sinning against your own body.
Geneva Bible (1587)
Flee fornication: euery sinne that a man doeth, is without the bodie: but hee that committeth fornication, sinneth against his owne bodie.
George Lamsa Translation
Keep away from fornication. Every sin that a man commits, is outside his body; but he who commits adultery sins against his own body.
Good News Translation
Avoid immorality. Any other sin a man commits does not affect his body; but the man who is guilty of sexual immorality sins against his own body.
Lexham English Bible
Flee sexual immorality. Every sin that a person commits is outside his body, but the one who commits sexual immorality sins against his own body.
Literal Translation
Flee fornication. Every sin which a man may do is outside the body, but he doing fornication sins against his own body.
American Standard Version
Flee fornication. Every sin that a man doeth is without the body; but he that committeth fornication sinneth against his own body.
Bible in Basic English
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.
Hebrew Names Version
Flee sexual immorality! "Every sin that a man does is outside the body," but he who commits sexual immorality sins against his own body.
International Standard Version
Keep on running away from sexual immorality. Any other sin that a person commits is outside his body, but the person who sins sexually sins against his own body.Romans 1:24; 6:12-13; 1 Thessalonians 4:4; Hebrews 13:4;">[xr]
Etheridge Translation
Flee from fornication: for every sin which a man committeth is without his body; but he who committeth fornication against his own body sinneth.
Murdock Translation
18 Flee whoredom. For every [fn] sin which a man committeth, is external to his body; but he that committeth whoredom, sinneth against his own body.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
Flee fornication. Euery synne that a man doeth, is without the body: but he that committeth fornication, sinneth against his owne body.
English Revised Version
Flee fornication. Every sin that a man doeth is without the body; but he that committeth fornication sinneth against his own body.
World English Bible
Flee sexual immorality. "Every sin that a man does is outside the body," but he who commits sexual immorality sins against his own body.
Wesley's New Testament (1755)
Flee fornication. Every sin that a man doth, is without the body; but he that committeth fornication, sinneth against his own body.
Weymouth's New Testament
Flee from fornication. Any other sin that a human being commits lies outside the body; but he who commits fornication sins against his own body.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Fle ye fornycacioun; al synne what euere synne a man doith, is with out the bodi; but he that doith fornycacioun, synneth ayens his bodi.
Update Bible Version
Flee fornication. Every sin that a man does is outside the body; but he that commits fornication sins against his own body.
Webster's Bible Translation
Flee lewdness. Every sin that a man doeth, is without the body; but he that committeth lewdness, sinneth against his own body.
New English Translation
Flee sexual immorality! "Every sin a person commits is outside of the body"—but the immoral person sins against his own body.
New King James Version
Flee sexual immorality. Every sin that a man does is outside the body, but he who commits sexual immorality sins against his own body.
New Life Bible
Have nothing to do with sex sins! Any other sin that a man does, does not hurt his own body. But the man who does a sex sin sins against his own body.
New Revised Standard
Shun fornication! Every sin that a person commits is outside the body; but the fornicator sins against the body itself.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Flee fornication! Every sin, whatsoever a man shall commit, is, outside his body, but, he that committeth fornication, bringeth sin into his own body.
Douay-Rheims Bible
Fly fornication. Every sin that a man doth is without the body: but he that committeth fornication sinneth against his own body.
Revised Standard Version
Shun immorality. Every other sin which a man commits is outside the body; but the immoral man sins against his own body.
Tyndale New Testament (1525)
Fle fornicacion. All synnes that a man dothe are with out ye body. But he yt is a fornicator synneth agaynst his awne body.
Young's Literal Translation
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.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Fle whordome. All synnes yt a man doth, are without the body. But he that commytteth whordome, synneth agaynst his awne body.
Mace New Testament (1729)
flee licentiousness. no other sin that a man commits does affect the church as a body: but the licentious commits a fraud against the whole body to which he belongs.
Simplified Cowboy Version
Don't just avoid sexual sin, run from it like your butt is on fire. This kind of sin affects you much differently than the others. It is a sin against your own body and your body should belong to the Lord.

Contextual Overview

12 You say, "I am allowed to do anything"—but not everything is good for you. And even though "I am allowed to do anything," I must not become a slave to anything. 13 You say, "Food was made for the stomach, and the stomach for food." (This is true, though someday God will do away with both of them.) But you can't say that our bodies were made for sexual immorality. They were made for the Lord, and the Lord cares about our bodies. 14 And God will raise us from the dead by his power, just as he raised our Lord from the dead. 15 Don't you realize that your bodies are actually parts of Christ? Should a man take his body, which is part of Christ, and join it to a prostitute? Never! 16 And don't you realize that if a man joins himself to a prostitute, he becomes one body with her? For the Scriptures say, "The two are united into one." 17 But the person who is joined to the Lord is one spirit with him. 18 Run from sexual sin! No other sin so clearly affects the body as this one does. For sexual immorality is a sin against your own body. 19 Don't you realize that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit, who lives in you and was given to you by God? You do not belong to yourself, 20 for God bought you with a high price. So you must honor God with your body.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Flee: Genesis 39:12-18, Proverbs 2:16-19, Proverbs 5:3-15, Proverbs 6:24-32, Proverbs 7:5-23, Proverbs 7:24-27, Proverbs 9:16-18, Romans 6:12, Romans 6:13, 2 Timothy 2:22, Hebrews 13:4, 1 Peter 2:11

sinneth: Romans 1:24, 1 Thessalonians 4:5

Reciprocal: Genesis 34:7 - thing Genesis 39:10 - or to be Leviticus 15:18 - unclean Proverbs 7:8 - General Matthew 15:20 - which Acts 15:20 - fornication 1 Corinthians 3:17 - any 1 Corinthians 5:1 - fornication 1 Corinthians 7:2 - to avoid 1 Corinthians 10:8 - General Ephesians 5:3 - fornication Colossians 3:5 - fornication 1 Thessalonians 4:4 - should 1 Timothy 6:11 - flee

Cross-References

Genesis 6:9
This is the account of Noah and his family. Noah was a righteous man, the only blameless person living on earth at the time, and he walked in close fellowship with God.
Genesis 6:16
Leave an 18-inch opening below the roof all the way around the boat. Put the door on the side, and build three decks inside the boat—lower, middle, and upper.
Genesis 7:1
When everything was ready, the Lord said to Noah, "Go into the boat with all your family, for among all the people of the earth, I can see that you alone are righteous.
Genesis 7:7
He went on board the boat to escape the flood—he and his wife and his sons and their wives.
Genesis 7:13
That very day Noah had gone into the boat with his wife and his sons—Shem, Ham, and Japheth—and their wives.
Genesis 17:4
"This is my covenant with you: I will make you the father of a multitude of nations!
Genesis 17:7
"I will confirm my covenant with you and your descendants after you, from generation to generation. This is the everlasting covenant: I will always be your God and the God of your descendants after you.
Genesis 17:21
But my covenant will be confirmed with Isaac, who will be born to you and Sarah about this time next year."
Isaiah 26:20
Go home, my people, and lock your doors! Hide yourselves for a little while until the Lord 's anger has passed.
Hebrews 11:7
It was by faith that Noah built a large boat to save his family from the flood. He obeyed God, who warned him about things that had never happened before. By his faith Noah condemned the rest of the world, and he received the righteousness that comes by faith.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Flee fornication,.... As that which is hurtful, scandalous, and unbecoming Christians; avoid it, and all the occasions of it, that may lead unto it, and be incentives of it:

every sin that a man doth is without the body not but that other sins are committed by the body, and by the members of it as instruments; they are generally committed by the abuse of other things that are without, and do not belong to the body; and so do not bring that hurt unto and reproach upon the body, as fornication does:

but he that committeth fornication, sinneth against his own body; not meaning his wife, which is as his own body; but his proper natural body, which is not only the instrument by which this sin is committed, but the object against which it is committed; and which is defiled and dishonoured by it; and sometimes its strength and health are impaired, and it is filled with nauseous diseases hereby.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Flee fornication - A solemn command of God - as explicit as any that thundered from Mount Sinai. None can disregard it with impunity - none can violate it without being exposed to the awful vengeance of the Almighty. There is force and emphasis in the word “flee” φεύγατε pheugate. Man should escape from it; he should not stay to reason about it; to debate the matter; or even to contend with his propensities, and to try the strength of his virtue. There are some sins which a man can resist; some about which he can reason without danger of pollution. But this is a sin where a man is safe only when he flies; free from pollution only when he refuses to entertain a thought of it; secure when he seeks a victory by flight, and a conquest by retreat. Let a man turn away from it without reflection on it and he is safe. Let him think, and reason, and he may be ruined. “The very passage of an impure thought through the mind leaves pollution behind it.” An argument on the subject often leaves pollution; a description ruins; and even the presentation of motives against it may often fix the mind with dangerous inclination on the crime. There is no way of avoiding the pollution but in the manner prescribed by Paul; there is no man safe who will not follow his direction. How many a young man would be saved from poverty, want, disease, curses, tears, and hell, could these two words be made to blaze before him like the writing before the astonished eyes of Belshazzar Daniel 5:0, and could they terrify him from even the momentary contemplation of the crime.

Every sin ... - This is to be taken comparatively. Sins in general; the common sins which people commit do not immediately and directly affect the body, or waste its energies, and destroy life. Such is the case with falsehood, theft, malice, dishonesty, pride, ambition, etc. They do not immediately and directly impair the constitution amid waste its energies.

Is without the body - Does not immediately and directly affect the body. The more immediate effect is on the mind; but the sin under consideration produces an immediate and direct effect on the body itself.

Sinneth against his own body - This is the FourTH argument against indulgence in this vice; and it is more striking and forcible. The sense is, “It wastes the bodily energies; produces feebleness, weakness, and disease; it impairs the strength, enervates the man, and shortens life.” Were it proper, this might be proveD to the satisfaction of every man by an examination of the effects of licentious indulgence. Those who wish to see the effects stated may find them in Dr. Rush on the Diseases of the Mind. Perhaps no single sin has done so much to produce the most painful and dreadful diseases, to weaken the constitution, and to shorten life as this. Other vices, as gluttony and drunkenness, do this also, and all sin has some effect in destroying the body, but it is true of this sin in an eminent degree.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 18. Flee fornication. — Abominate, detest, and escape from every kind of uncleanness. Some sins, or solicitations to sin, may be reasoned with; in the above cases, if you parley you are undone; reason not, but FLY!

Sinneth against his own body. — Though sin of every species has a tendency to destroy life, yet none are so mortal as those to which the apostle refers; they strike immediately at the basis of the constitution. By the just judgment of God, all these irregular and sinful connections are married to death. Neither prostitutes, whoremongers, nor unclean persons of any description, can live out half their days. It would be easy to show, and prove also, how the end of these things, even with respect to the body, is death; but I forbear, and shall finish the subject with the words of the prophet: The show of their countenance doth witness against them, and they declare their sin as Sodom, they hide it not; wo unto their soul, for they have rewarded evil unto themselves.


 
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