Flee from sexual immorality. Every other sin a person commits is outside the body, but the sexually immoral person sins against his own body.
18. Flee fornication Every sin, etc. Having set before us honorable conduct, he now shows how much we ought to abhor fornication, setting before us the enormity of its wickedness and baseness. Now he shows its greatness by comparison — that this sin alone, of all sins, puts a brand of disgrace upon the body.
Some Corinthians thought fornication as lawful as eating meat, since their pagan city did not condemn it. But lawfulness is not the measure; fitness is. Consider your profession, your character, your hope, and beware lest you fall into bondage to appetite while claiming freedom in Christ.
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Commenting on 1 Corinthians 6:12-20
Flee fornication,.... As that which is hurtful, scandalous, and unbecoming Christians; avoid it, and all the occasions of it, that may lead unto it, and be incentives of it: every sin that a man doth is without the body not but that other sins are committed by the body, and by the members of it as instruments; they are generally committed by the abuse of...