8Neither let us commit fornication, as some of them committed, and fell in one day three and twenty thousand.
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And Israel abode in Shittim, and the people began to commit whoredom with the daughters of Moab. …
Flee fornication. Every sin that a man doeth is without the body; but he that committeth fornication sinneth against his own body.
Thus they provoked him to anger with their inventions: and the plague brake in upon them.
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,
But I have a few things against thee, because thou hast there them that hold the doctrine of Balaam, who taught Balac to cast a stumblingblock before the children of Israel, to eat things sacrificed unto idols, and to commit fornication.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 6-14)The apostle, having recited their privileges, proceeds here to an account of their faults and punishments, their sins and plagues, which are left upon record for an example to us, a warning against the like sins, if we would escape the like punishments. We must not do as they did, lest we suffer as they suffered. I. Several of their sins are specified as cautions to us; as, 1. We should shun inord…
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