Parallel Verses
King James Version
Flee fornication. Every sin that a man doeth is without the body; but he that committeth fornication sinneth against his own body.
New American Standard Bible
Holman Bible
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International Standard Version
Keep on running away from sexual immorality. Any other sin that a person commits is outside his body, but the person who sins sexually sins against his own body.
A Conservative Version
Flee fornication. Every sin, whatever a man may do, is outside the body, but he who fornicates sins against his own body.
American Standard Version
Flee fornication. Every sin that a man doeth is without the body; but he that committeth fornication sinneth against his own body.
Amplified
Run away from sexual immorality [in any form, whether thought or behavior, whether visual or written]. Every other sin that a man commits is outside the body, but the one who is sexually immoral sins against his own body.
An Understandable Version
Stay away from [any involvement in] sexual immorality. Every sin a person commits is outside [the realm] of his body; but the one who commits sexual immorality sins against his own body. [Note: Possibly this means that sex, because it requires the deepest and most complete commitment of human involvement, becomes a unique sin when its true purpose and expression are violated].
Anderson New Testament
Shun lewdness. Every sin that a man commits, is without the body; but he that is guilty of lewdness sins against his own body.
Bible in Basic English
Keep away from the desires of the flesh. Every sin which a man does is outside of the body; but he who goes after the desires of the flesh does evil to his body.
Common New Testament
Flee immorality. Every other sin that a man commits is outside the body, but the immoral man sins against his own body.
Daniel Mace New Testament
flee licentiousness. no other sin that a man commits does affect the church as a body: but the licentious commits a fraud against the whole body to which he belongs.
Darby Translation
Flee fornication. Every sin which a man may practise is without the body, but he that commits fornication sins against his own body.
Godbey New Testament
Fly from fornication. Every sin which a man may commit is outside of his body; the one committing fornication sins against his own body.
Goodspeed New Testament
Fly from immorality! Any other sin a man commits is something outside his body, but the immoral man sins against his own body.
John Wesley New Testament
Flee fornication. Every sin that a man doth, is without the body; but he that committeth fornication, sinneth against his own body.
Julia Smith Translation
Flee fornication. Every sin which if a man do is without the body; but he committing fornication sins against his own body.
King James 2000
Flee fornication. Every sin that a man does is outside the body; but he that commits fornication sins against his own body.
Lexham Expanded Bible
Flee sexual immorality. Every sin that a person commits is outside his body, but the one who commits sexual immorality sins against his own body.
Modern King James verseion
Flee fornication. Every sin that a man does is outside the body, but he who commits fornication sins against his own body.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Flee fornication. All sins that a man doth, are without the body. But he that is a fornicator, sinneth against his own body.
Moffatt New Testament
Shun immorality! Any other sin that a man commits is outside the body, but the immoral man sins against his body.
Montgomery New Testament
Flee from immorality. Every other sin that a man commits lies outside the body, but the immoral man sins against his own body.
NET Bible
Flee sexual immorality! "Every sin a person commits is outside of the body" -- but the immoral person sins against his own body.
New Heart English Bible
Flee sexual immorality. "Every sin that a man does is outside the body," but he who commits sexual immorality sins against his own body.
Noyes New Testament
Flee fornication. Every other sin which a man may commit, is apart from the body; but he that committeth fornication, sinneth against his own body.
Sawyer New Testament
Avoid fornication. Every crime that a man commits is out of his body; but he that commits fornication sins in his body.
The Emphasized Bible
Flee fornication! Every sin, whatsoever a man shall commit, is, outside his body, but, he that committeth fornication, bringeth sin into his own body.
Thomas Haweis New Testament
Flee whoredom. Every other sin which a man may commit is without the body; but he who committeth whoredom sinneth against his own body.
Twentieth Century New Testament
Shun all immorality. Every other sin that men commit is something outside the body; but an immoral man sins against his own body.
Webster
Flee lewdness. Every sin that a man doeth, is without the body; but he that committeth lewdness, sinneth against his own body.
Weymouth New Testament
Flee from fornication. Any other sin that a human being commits lies outside the body; but he who commits fornication sins against his own body.
Williams New Testament
Keep on running from sexual immorality! Any other sin that a man commits is one outside his body, but the man who commits the sexual sin is sinning against his own body.
World English Bible
Flee sexual immorality! "Every sin that a man does is outside the body," but he who commits sexual immorality sins against his own body.
Worrell New Testament
Flee fornication. Every sin which a man commits is without the body; but he that commits adultery sins against his own body.
Worsley New Testament
Flee from whoredom. Every other sin, that a man committeth, is without the body; but he, that committeth whoredom, sinneth against his own body.
Youngs Literal Translation
flee the whoredom; every sin -- whatever a man may commit -- is without the body, and he who is committing whoredom, against his own body doth sin.
Themes
Sexual activities » Those that commit fornication
Sexual activities » Avoiding fornication
Topics
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References
Word Count of 37 Translations in 1 Corinthians 6:18
Prayers for 1 Corinthians 6:18
Verse Info
Context Readings
Avoid Sexual Immorality
17 But he that is joined unto the Lord is one spirit. 18 Flee fornication. Every sin that a man doeth is without the body; but he that committeth fornication sinneth against his own body. 19 What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own?
Phrases
Cross References
Hebrews 13:4
Marriage is honourable in all, and the bed undefiled: but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge.
2 Corinthians 12:21
And lest, when I come again, my God will humble me among you, and that I shall bewail many which have sinned already, and have not repented of the uncleanness and fornication and lasciviousness which they have committed.
Ephesians 5:3
But fornication, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not be once named among you, as becometh saints;
2 Timothy 2:22
Flee also youthful lusts: but follow righteousness, faith, charity, peace, with them that call on the Lord out of a pure heart.
Genesis 39:12-18
And she caught him by his garment, saying, Lie with me: and he left his garment in her hand, and fled, and got him out.
Proverbs 2:16-19
To deliver thee from the strange woman, even from the stranger which flattereth with her words;
Proverbs 5:3-15
For the lips of a strange woman drop as an honeycomb, and her mouth is smoother than oil:
Proverbs 6:24-32
To keep thee from the evil woman, from the flattery of the tongue of a strange woman.
Proverbs 7:5-27
That they may keep thee from the strange woman, from the stranger which flattereth with her words.
Proverbs 9:16-18
Whoso is simple, let him turn in hither: and as for him that wanteth understanding, she saith to him,
Romans 1:24
Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonour their own bodies between themselves:
Romans 6:12-13
Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, that ye should obey it in the lusts thereof.
1 Corinthians 6:9
Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind,
Colossians 3:5
Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness, which is idolatry:
1 Thessalonians 4:3
For this is the will of God, even your sanctification, that ye should abstain from fornication:
1 Thessalonians 4:5
Not in the lust of concupiscence, even as the Gentiles which know not God:
1 Peter 2:11
Dearly beloved, I beseech you as strangers and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;