Flee fornication. Every sin that a man doeth is without the body; but he that committeth fornication sinneth against his own body.
Flee. Our safety in such temptations is flight (Genesis 39:12; Job 31:1).
Every sin that - Greek, 'Whatsoever a man doeth.' Every other sin-even gluttony, drunkenness, and self-murder-are comparatively external to the body (Mark 7:18; Proverbs 6:30-32). This sinner injures, but does not alienate the body: he rather sins against the body's temporary organization, and against the soul, than against the body's permanent essence, designed "for the Lord." "But" the fornicator alienates that body which is the Lord's, and makes it one with a harlot's body, and so "sinneth (commits sacrilege, 1 Corinthians 6:19) against his own body."