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1 Corinthians 6:18

New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures
- 18 Flee from sexual immorality!*+ Every other sin that a man may commit is outside his body, but whoever practices sexual immorality is sinning against his own body.+

1 Corinthians 6:18

New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures—With References
- 18 Flee from fornication.+ Every other sin that a man may commit is outside his* body, but he that practices fornication is sinning against his own body.+

1 Corinthians 6:18

The Kingdom Interlinear Translation of the Greek Scriptures
- 18 φεύγετε Be YOU fleeing from τὴν the πορνείαν· fornication; πᾶν every ἁμάρτημα sinful (thing) ὃ which ἐὰν if ever ποιήσῃ might do ἄνθρωπος man ἐκτὸς outside τοῦ of the σώματός body ἐστιν, it is, ὁ the (one) δὲ but πορνεύων committing fornication εἰς into τὸ the ἴδιον own σῶμα body ἁμαρτάνει. is sinning.

1 Corinthians 6:18

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

1 Corinthians 6:18

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

1 Corinthians 6:18

The Bible in Living English
- 18 ** Keep clear of unchastity! Any sin that a man commits is outside the body; but he who has unchaste relations sins against his own body.

1 Corinthians Study Notes—Chapter 6

New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures (Study Edition)
- 6:18
  
  Flee from sexual immorality!: The Greek word pheuʹgo means “to flee; to run away from.” Paul uses this word figuratively when urging the Corinthian Christians to run away from sexual immorality. Some suggest that Paul was alluding to the account about Joseph, who literally and resolutely fled from Potiphar’s wife. In the Septuagint rendering of Ge 39:12-18, the Greek word used for “flee” is the same as the word used here. In the original Greek, the admonition at 1Co 6:18 is in the present tense, “be you fleeing from,” denoting a continuous and habitual fleeing.—Kingdom Interlinear.
  
  Every other sin that a man may commit is outside his body: Paul has been emphasizing that Christians are to be united with their Lord and head, Christ Jesus. (1Co 6:13-15) The sexually immoral person wrongly and sinfully becomes “one flesh” with another. (1Co 6:16) In a sense, the Christian who commits immorality separates himself from union with Christ and makes his body “one” with another person. That is apparently why all other sins committed by a person are here viewed as “outside his body.” A Christian practicing sexual immorality sins against his own body, using his reproductive members for an immoral purpose.