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May 6, 2024 · Answer. Paul tells the Corinthians to “flee from sexual immorality. All other sins a person commits are outside the body, but whoever sins sexually, sins against their own body” (1 Corinthians 6:18).
He sins against his own body; he defiles it, he degrades it, making it one with the body of that vile creature with whom he sins. Also, the New Interpreter's One-Volume Commentary on the Bible goes into further detail on the context in Corinth for Paul's writing:
“Every sin that a man does is outside the body,” but he who commits sexual immorality sins against his own body. Young's Literal Translation flee the whoredom; every sin -- whatever a man may commit -- is without the body, and he who is committing whoredom, against his own body doth sin.
New Living Translation. 18 Run 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. 19 Don’t you realize that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit, who lives in you and was given to you by God?
Every sin that a man doeth is without the body; but he that committeth fornication sinneth against his own body.
Every other sin that a man commits is done outside his own body, but this is an offence against his own body. Have you forgotten that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit, who lives in you, and that you are not the owner of your own body?
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Flee fornication. Every sin that a man doeth is without the body; but he that committeth fornication sinneth against his own body.
