1 Corinthians 6:18

Flee sexual immorality, for it is a sin against one's own body. It matters because this sin uniquely defiles the very body united to Christ.

Cross-references · 17

• 1 Pet 2:11Beloved, I beg you as foreigners and pilgrims, to abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;
• 1 Th 4:3For this is the will of God: your sanctification, that you abstain from sexual immorality,
• Col 3:5Put to death therefore your members which are on the earth: sexual immorality, uncleanness, depraved passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry;
• Rom 6:12–13Therefore don’t let sin reign in your mortal body, that you should obey it in its lusts.
• 2 Tim 2:22Flee from youthful lusts; but pursue righteousness, faith, love, and peace with those who call on the Lord out of a pure heart.
• Heb 13:4Let marriage be held in honor among all, and let the bed be undefiled: but God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterers.
• Eph 5:3But sexual immorality, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not even be mentioned among you, as becomes saints;
• 1 Cor 6:9Or don’t you know that the unrighteous will not inherit God’s Kingdom? Don’t be deceived. Neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor male prostitutes, nor homosexuals,
• 1 Th 4:5not in the passion of lust, even as the Gentiles who don’t know God;
• Prov 6:24–32to keep you from the immoral woman, from the flattery of the wayward wife’s tongue.
• 2 Cor 12:21that again when I come my God would humble me before you, and I would mourn for many of those who have sinned before now, and not repented of the uncleanness and sexual immorality and lustfulness which they committed.
• Prov 5:3–15For the lips of an adulteress drip honey. Her mouth is smoother than oil,
• Gen 39:12–18She caught him by his garment, saying, “Lie with me!” He left his garment in her hand, and ran outside.
• Rom 1:24Therefore God also gave them up in the lusts of their hearts to uncleanness, that their bodies should be dishonored among themselves,
• Prov 9:16–18“Whoever is simple, let him turn in here.” as for him who is void of understanding, she says to him,
• Prov 7:5–27that they may keep you from the strange woman, from the foreigner who flatters with her words.
• Prov 2:16–19To deliver you from the strange woman, even from the foreigner who flatters with her words;

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