1Cor 6:18 Cross References

1 Corinthians 6:18

18: Run away from sexual sin! No other sin so clearly affects the body as this one does. For sexual immorality is a sin against your own body.

Do not let sin control the way you live; do not give in to its lustful desires.
Do not let any part of your body become a tool of wickedness, to be used for sinning. Instead, give yourselves completely to God since you have been given new life. And use your whole body as a tool to do what is right for the glory of God.

Give honor to marriage, and remain faithful to one another in marriage. God will surely judge people who are immoral and those who commit adultery.

Dear brothers and sisters, you are foreigners and aliens here. So I warn you to keep away from evil desires because they fight against your very souls.

So put to death the sinful, earthly things lurking within you. Have nothing to do with sexual sin, impurity, lust, and shameful desires. Don't be greedy for the good things of this life, for that is idolatry.

Let there be no sexual immorality, impurity, or greed among you. Such sins have no place among God's people.

Run from anything that stimulates youthful lust. Follow anything that makes you want to do right. Pursue faith and love and peace, and enjoy the companionship of those who call on the Lord with pure hearts.

Don't you know that those who do wrong will have no share in the Kingdom of God? Don't fool yourselves. Those who indulge in sexual sin, who are idol worshipers, adulterers, male prostitutes, homosexuals,

Yes, I am afraid that when I come, God will humble me again because of you. And I will have to grieve because many of you who sinned earlier have not repented of your impurity, sexual immorality, and eagerness for lustful pleasure.

not in lustful passion as the pagans do, in their ignorance of God and his ways.

The lips of an immoral woman are as sweet as honey, and her mouth is smoother than oil.
But the result is as bitter as poison, sharp as a double-edged sword.
Her feet go down to death; her steps lead straight to the grave.
For she does not care about the path to life. She staggers down a crooked trail and doesn't even realize where it leads.
So now, my sons, listen to me. Never stray from what I am about to say:

These commands and this teaching will keep you from the immoral woman, from the smooth tongue of an adulterous woman.
Don't lust for her beauty. Don't let her coyness seduce you.
For a prostitute will bring you to poverty, and sleeping with another man's wife may cost you your very life.
Can a man scoop fire into his lap and not be burned?
Can he walk on hot coals and not blister his feet?

She came and grabbed him by his shirt, demanding, "Sleep with me!" Joseph tore himself away, but as he did, his shirt came off. She was left holding it as he ran from the house.
When she saw that she had his shirt and that he had fled,
she began screaming. Soon all the men around the place came running. "My husband has brought this Hebrew slave here to insult us!" she sobbed. "He tried to rape me, but I screamed.
When he heard my loud cries, he ran and left his shirt behind with me."
She kept the shirt with her, and when her husband came home that night,

"Come home with me," she urges the simple. To those without good judgment, she says,
"Stolen water is refreshing; food eaten in secret tastes the best!"
But the men don't realize that her former guests are now in the grave.

Let them hold you back from an affair with an immoral woman, from listening to the flattery of an adulterous woman.
I was looking out the window of my house one day
and saw a simpleminded young man who lacked common sense.
He was crossing the street near the house of an immoral woman. He was strolling down the path by her house
at twilight, as the day was fading, as the dark of night set in.

So God let them go ahead and do whatever shameful things their hearts desired. As a result, they did vile and degrading things with each other's bodies.

Wisdom will save you from the immoral woman, from the flattery of the adulterous woman.
She has abandoned her husband and ignores the covenant she made before God.
Entering her house leads to death; it is the road to hell.
The man who visits her is doomed. He will never reach the paths of life.

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