1 Corinthians 6:18

18 Flee fornication. Any other sin that a man does is outside the body, but he that commits fornication sins against his own body.

1 Corinthians 6:18 Meaning and Commentary

1 Corinthians 6:18

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.

1 Corinthians 6:18 In-Context

16 What? know ye not that he who is joined to the harlot is one body with her? For they shall be, saith he, two in one flesh.

17 But he that is joined unto the Lord is one spirit.

18 Flee fornication. Any other sin that a man does is outside the body, but he that commits fornication sins against his own body.

19 What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom ye have of God, and that ye are not your own?

20 For ye are bought with a price, therefore glorify God in your body and in your spirit, which are God’s.