3. No other sin so clearly affects the body as this one does. know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own? 1 Corinthians 6:18-20 New Living Translation (NLT) 18 Run from sexual sin! 6:18). We should not commit sexual immorality, as some of them did--and in one day twenty-three thousand of them died. For sexual immorality is a sin against your own body. Blessings, Pastor Steve ARTICLE Science Confirms The Bible: Sexual Sin Is Against Your Own… For sexual immorality is a sin against your own body. Let him who has done this be removed from among you. But he that committeth fornication, sinneth against his own body - Pollutes, dishonours, and degrades it to a level with brute beasts. To be killing sexual sin, understand that it is always a violation of God’s purpose for our bodies. People's Bible Notes for 1 Corinthians 6:18 19 Don’t you realize that your body is the temple Every sin that a man commits against his neighbour terminates upon an object out of himself, and does not so immediately pollute his body, though it does his soul. However, the body is not for sexual sin but for the Lord, and the Lord is for the body. All other sins a person commits are outside the body, but whoever sins sexually, sins against their own body. Ought you not rather to mourn? Flee from sexual immorality. You do not belong to yourself. --1 Corinthians 6:18 # 9. 15 Bible Verses about the Consequences of Sexual Immorality ... # 8. --1 Corinthians 10:8 # 10. And you are arrogant! To sin sexually, Paul might say today, means you are practically going to … 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? Not every sin is like that. This is the sentiment that any faithful preacher will urge upon his congregation. 1 Thessalonians 4:3-4 God’s will is for you to be holy, so stay away from all sexual sin. That’s what Paul means in 1 Corinthians 6:18 when he says that every other sin is outside the body, but the sexual immoral person sins against his own body. "Run from sexual sin! 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. For sexual immorality is a sin against your own body. Thinking upon (lust), watching (pornography), and engaging in (fornication) in sexual sin will sear one's conscience like a hot iron and warp one's soul. Now when these things had been completed, the princes approached me, saying, "The people of Israel and the priests and the Levites have not separated themselves from the peoples of the lands, according to their abominations, those of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Jebusites, the Ammonites, the Moabites, the Egyptians and the Amorites. Yet the body is not for immorality, but for the Lord; and the Lord is for the body. "Every sin that a man does is outside the body," but he who commits sexual immorality sins against his own body. Sexual sin is singled out in Scripture for particularly vigilant avoidance: “Flee fornication. All other sins a person commits are outside the body, but whoever sins sexually, sins against their own body.” Now, science confirms exactly how sexual sin harms us: It damages your brain. P. 149), “No sin is more enslaving than sexual sin.” Jesus Christ, not the lusts of the flesh, is to be the Lord of your body. Any sexual union outside of holy matrimony is playing with fire, and is toying with a viper. John MacArthur goes so far as to say (The MacArthur New Testament Commentary, 1 Corinthians [Moody Press]. Every sin that a man doeth is without the body; but he that committeth fornication sinneth against his own body.