“Flee sexual immorality! “Every sin that a man does is outside the body,” but he who commits sexual immorality sins against his own body.”
— WEB
1 Corinthians 6:18
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Translations sourced from the public-domain WEB, KJV, and ASV. See all sources.
“Flee fornication. Every sin that a man doeth is without the body; but he that committeth fornication sinneth against his own body.”
— KJV
“Flee fornication. Every sin that a man doeth is without the body; but he that committeth fornication sinneth against his own body.”
— ASV
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Commentary
Flee--The only safety in such temptations is flight (Gen 39:12; Job 31:1). Every sin--The Greek is forcible. "Every sin whatsoever that a man doeth." Every other sin; even gluttony, drunkenness, and self-murder are "without," that is, comparatively external to the body (Mar 7:18; compare Pro 6:30-32). He certainly injures, but he does not alienate the body itself; the sin is not terminated in the body; he rather sins against the perishing accidents of the body (as the "belly," and the body's present temporary organization), and against the soul than against the body in its permanent essence, designed "for the Lord." "But" the fornicator alienates that body which is the Lord's, and makes it one with a harlot's body, and so "sinneth against his own body," that is, against the verity and nature of his body; not a mere effect on the body from without, but a contradiction of the truth of the body, wrought within itself [ALFORD].
— Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (public domain)
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