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1 Corinthians 6:18

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.

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 Living Translation
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.
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 I am allowed to do all things, but not everything is good for me to do! Even if I am free to do all things, I will not do them if I think it would be hard for me to stop when I know I should. 13 Food was meant for the stomach. The stomach needs food, but God will bring to an end both food and the stomach. The body was not meant for sex sins. It was meant to work for the Lord. The Lord is for our body. 14 God raised the Lord from death. He will raise us from death by His power also. 15 Do you not know that your bodies are a part of Christ Himself? Am I to take a part of Christ and make it a part of a woman who sells the use of her body? No! Never! 16 Do you not know that a man who joins himself to a woman who sells the use of her body becomes a part of her? The Holy Writings say, "The two will become one." 17 But if you join yourself to the Lord, you are one with Him in spirit. 18 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. 19 Do you not know that your body is a house of God where the Holy Spirit lives? God gave you His Holy Spirit. Now you belong to God. You do not belong to yourselves. 20 God bought you with a great price. So honor God with your body. You belong to Him.

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 story of Noah and his family. Noah was right with God. He was without blame in his time. Noah walked with God.
Genesis 6:16
Make a window for the boat, that goes down a cubit from the roof. Put a door in the side of the boat. And make it with first, second, and third floors.
Genesis 7:1
Then the Lord said to Noah, "Go into the boat, you and all your family. For I have seen that you only are right and good at this time.
Genesis 7:7
Then Noah and his sons and his wife and his sons' wives all went into the large boat because of the water of the flood.
Genesis 7:13
On the very same day Noah and his sons, Shem and Ham and Japheth, and Noah's wife and the three wives of his sons with them, all went into the large boat.
Genesis 17:4
"See, My agreement is with you. You will be the father of many nations.
Genesis 17:7
I will make My agreement between Me and you and your children after you through their whole lives for all time. I will be God to you and to your children's children after you.
Genesis 17:21
But I will make My agreement with Isaac, who will be born to Sarah at this time next year."
Isaiah 26:20
Come, my people, go into your rooms. Close your doors behind you. Hide for a little while until God's anger is past.
Hebrews 11:7
Because Noah had faith, he built a large boat for his family. God told him what was going to happen. His faith made him hear God speak and he obeyed. His family was saved from death because he built the boat. In this way, Noah showed the world how sinful it was. Noah became right with God because of his faith in God.

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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