1 Corinthians 6:18

Flee from sexual immorality. Every other sin a man can commit is outside his body, but he who sins sexually sins against his own body.

Cross References (17)

  • 1 Peter 2:11 (33)

    Beloved, I urge you, as foreigners and exiles, to abstain from the desires of the flesh, which war against your soul.

  • 1 Thessalonians 4:3 (30)

    For it is God’s will that you should be holy: You must abstain from sexual immorality;

  • Colossians 3:5 (27)

    Put to death, therefore, the components of your earthly nature: sexual immorality, impurity, lust, evil desires, and gre

  • Romans 6:12–13 (20)

    Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal body so that you obey its desires.

  • 2 Timothy 2:22 (18)

    Flee from youthful passions and pursue righteousness, faith, love, and peace, together with those who call on the Lord o

  • Hebrews 13:4 (17)

    Marriage should be honored by all and the marriage bed kept undefiled, for God will judge the sexually immoral and adult

  • Ephesians 5:3 (14)

    But among you, as is proper among the saints, there must not be even a hint of sexual immorality, or of any kind of impu

  • 1 Corinthians 6:9 (14)

    Do you not know that the wicked will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: Neither the sexually immoral, n

  • 1 Thessalonians 4:5 (12)

    not in lustful passion like the Gentiles who do not know God;

  • Proverbs 6:24–32 (12)

    to keep you from the evil woman, from the smooth tongue of the adulteress.

  • 2 Corinthians 12:21 (11)

    I am afraid that when I come again, my God will humble me before you, and I will be grieved over many who have sinned ea

  • Proverbs 5:3–15 (10)

    Though the lips of the forbidden woman drip honey and her speech is smoother than oil,

  • Genesis 39:12–18 (8)

    She grabbed Joseph by his cloak and said, “Sleep with me!” But leaving his cloak in her hand, he escaped and ran outside

  • Romans 1:24 (7)

    Therefore God gave them over in the desires of their hearts to impurity for the dishonoring of their bodies with one ano

  • Proverbs 9:16–18 (7)

    “Whoever is simple, let him turn in here!” she says to him who lacks judgment.

  • Proverbs 2:16–19 (7)

    It will rescue you from the forbidden woman, from the stranger with seductive words

  • Proverbs 7:5–27 (7)

    that they may keep you from the adulteress, from the stranger with seductive words.