18Flee fornication. Every sin that a man doeth is without the body; but he that committeth fornication sinneth against his own body.
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Dearly beloved, I beseech you as strangers and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;
For this is the will of God, even your sanctification, that ye should abstain from fornication:
Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness, which is idolatry:
Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, that ye should obey it in the lusts thereof. …
Flee also youthful lusts: but follow righteousness, faith, charity, peace, with them that call on the Lord out of a pure heart.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 12-20)The 1 Cor. 6:12 , 13 seem to relate to that early dispute among Christians about the distinction of meats, and yet to be prefatory to the caution that follows against fornication. The connection seems plain enough if we attend to the famous determination of the apostles, Acts 15:19-29, where the prohibition of certain foods was joined with that of fornication. Now some among the Corinthians seem t…
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