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1 Corinthians 6:18
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1 Corinthians 6:18
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Flee from sexual immorality. All other sins a person commits are outside the body, but whoever sins sexually, sins against their own body.
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1 Corinthians 6:18 in Other Translations
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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.
ESV
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Flee from sexual immorality. Every other sin a person commits is outside the body, but the sexually immoral person sins against his own body.
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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.
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There is a sense in which sexual sins are different from all others. In sexual sin we violate the sacredness of our own bodies, these bodies that were made for God-given and God-modeled love, for "becoming one" with another.
CSB
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Flee from sexual immorality! "Every sin a person can commit is outside the body," but the person who is sexually immoral sins against his own body.
1 Corinthians 6:18 In-Context
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Do you not know that he who unites himself with a prostitute is one with her in body? For it is said, “The two will become one flesh.”
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But whoever is united with the Lord is one with him in spirit.
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Flee from sexual immorality. All other sins a person commits are outside the body, but whoever sins sexually, sins against their own body.
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Do you not know that your bodies are temples of the Holy Spirit, who is in you, whom you have received from God? You are not your own;
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you were bought at a price. Therefore honor God with your bodies.
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1.
ver 9;
1 Corinthians 5:1
;
2 Corinthians 12:21
;
Galatians 5:19
;
Ephesians 5:3
;
1 Thessalonians 4:3,4
;
Hebrews 13:4
2.
Romans 6:12
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