1 Corinthians 6:18

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1 Corinthians 6:16–20 · Berean Standard Bible

16 Or don’t you know that he who unites himself with a prostitute is one with her in body? For it is said, “The two will become one flesh.”

17 But he who unites himself with the Lord is one with Him in spirit.

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.

19 Do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have received from God? You are not your own;

20 you were bought at a price. Therefore glorify God with your body.

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Genesis 39:12

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

Genesis 39:13

When she saw that he had left his cloak in her hand and had run out of the house,

Genesis 39:14

she called her household servants. “Look,” she said, “this Hebrew has been brought to us to make sport of us. He came to me so he could sleep with me, but I screamed as loud as I could.

Genesis 39:15

When he heard me scream for help, he left his cloak beside me and ran out of the house.”

Genesis 39:16

So Potiphar’s wife kept Joseph’s cloak beside her until his master came home.

Genesis 39:17

Then she told him the same story: “The Hebrew slave you brought us came to me to make sport of me,

Genesis 39:18

but when I screamed for help, he left his cloak beside me and ran out of the house.”

Proverbs 2:16

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

Proverbs 2:17

who abandons the partner of her youth and forgets the covenant of her God.

Proverbs 2:18

For her house sinks down to death, and her tracks to the departed spirits.

Proverbs 2:19

None who go to her return or negotiate the paths of life.

Proverbs 5:3

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

Proverbs 5:4

in the end she is bitter as wormwood, sharp as a double-edged sword.

Proverbs 5:5

Her feet go down to death; her steps lead straight to Sheol.

Proverbs 5:6

She does not consider the path of life; she does not know that her ways are unstable.

Proverbs 5:7

So now, my sons, listen to me, and do not turn aside from the words of my mouth.

Proverbs 5:8

Keep your path far from her; do not go near the door of her house,

Proverbs 5:9

lest you concede your vigor to others, and your years to one who is cruel;

Proverbs 5:10

lest strangers feast on your wealth, and your labors enrich the house of a foreigner.

Proverbs 5:11

At the end of your life you will groan when your flesh and your body are spent,

Proverbs 5:12

and you will say, “How I hated discipline, and my heart despised reproof!

Proverbs 5:13

I did not listen to the voice of my teachers or incline my ear to my mentors.

Proverbs 5:14

I am on the brink of utter ruin in the midst of the whole assembly.”

Proverbs 5:15

Drink water from your own cistern, and running water from your own well.

Proverbs 6:24

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

Proverbs 6:25

Do not lust in your heart for her beauty or let her captivate you with her eyes.

Proverbs 6:26

For the levy of the prostitute is poverty, and the adulteress preys upon your very life.

Proverbs 6:27

Can a man embrace fire and his clothes not be burned?

Proverbs 6:28

Can a man walk on hot coals without scorching his feet?

Proverbs 6:29

So is he who sleeps with another man’s wife; no one who touches her will go unpunished.

Proverbs 6:30

Men do not despise the thief if he steals to satisfy his hunger.

Proverbs 6:31

Yet if caught, he must pay sevenfold; he must give up all the wealth of his house.

Proverbs 6:32

He who commits adultery lacks judgment; whoever does so destroys himself.

Proverbs 7:5

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

Proverbs 7:6

For at the window of my house I looked through the lattice.

Proverbs 7:7

I saw among the simple, I noticed among the youths, a young man lacking judgment,

Proverbs 7:8

crossing the street near her corner, strolling down the road to her house,

Proverbs 7:9

at twilight, as the day was fading into the dark of the night.

Proverbs 7:10

Then a woman came out to meet him, with the attire of a harlot and cunning of heart.

Proverbs 7:11

She is loud and defiant; her feet do not remain at home.

Proverbs 7:12

Now in the street, now in the squares, she lurks at every corner.

Proverbs 7:13

She seizes him and kisses him; she brazenly says to him:

Proverbs 7:14

“I have made my peace offerings; today I have paid my vows.

Proverbs 7:15

So I came out to meet you; I sought you, and I have found you.

Proverbs 7:16

I have decked my bed with coverings, with colored linen from Egypt.

Proverbs 7:17

I have perfumed my bed with myrrh, with aloes, and with cinnamon.

Proverbs 7:18

Come, let us take our fill of love till morning. Let us delight in loving caresses!

Proverbs 7:19

For my husband is not at home; he has gone on a long journey.

Proverbs 7:20

He took with him a bag of money and will not return till the moon is full.”

Proverbs 7:21

With her great persuasion she entices him; with her flattering lips she lures him.

Proverbs 7:22

He follows her on impulse, like an ox going to the slaughter, like a deer bounding into a trap,

Proverbs 7:23

until an arrow pierces his liver, like a bird darting into a snare— not knowing it will cost him his life.

Proverbs 7:24

Now, my sons, listen to me, and attend to the words of my mouth.

Proverbs 7:25

Do not let your heart turn aside to her ways; do not stray into her paths.

Proverbs 7:26

For she has brought many down to death; her slain are many in number.

Proverbs 7:27

Her house is the road to Sheol, descending to the chambers of death.

Proverbs 9:16

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

Proverbs 9:17

“Stolen water is sweet, and bread eaten in secret is tasty!”

Proverbs 9:18

But they do not know that the dead are there, that her guests are in the depths of Sheol.

Romans 6:12

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

Romans 6:13

Do not present the parts of your body to sin as instruments of wickedness, but present yourselves to God as those who have been brought from death to life; and present the parts of your body to Him as instruments of righteousness.

2 Timothy 2:22

Flee from youthful passions and pursue righteousness, faith, love, and peace, together with those who call on the Lord out of a pure heart.

Hebrews 13:4

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

1 Peter 2:11

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

Romans 1:24

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

1 Thessalonians 4:5

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