I did not mean you were literally to avoid contact with the immoral in this world, with the lustful and the thievish, or with idolaters; in that case you would have to leave the world altogether.

Avoid fornication. Every crime that a man commits is out of his body; but he that commits fornication sins in his body.

Nevertheless, to avoid fornication, let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband.

If others share this right over you, why not we all the more? We did not avail ourselves of it, you say? No, we do not mind any privations if we can only avoid putting any obstacle in the way of the gospel of Christ.

Therefore, my beloved, run [keep far, far away] from [any sort of] idolatry [and that includes loving anything more than God, or participating in anything that leads to sin and enslaves the soul].

After the same manner also he took the cup, when he had supped, saying, This cup is the new testament in my blood: this do ye, as oft as ye drink it, in remembrance of me.

Get back to your sober senses and avoid sin, for some of you ??and I say this to your shame ??some of you are insensible to God.