Flee sexual immorality! “Every sin a person commits is outside of the body” ¹  – but the immoral person sins against his own body.

For this reason, if food causes my brother or sister to sin, I will never eat meat again, so that I may not cause one of them ¹  to sin.

For he is our peace, the one who made both groups into one ¹  and who destroyed the middle wall of partition, the hostility,

“When someone’s body has a boil on its skin ¹  and it heals,

Night pierces ¹  my bones; ²  my gnawing pains ³  never cease.

For your arrows pierce ¹  me, and your hand presses me down. ² 

My wounds ¹  are infected and starting to smell, ²  because of my foolish sins. ³ 

He sent swarms of biting insects against them, ¹  as well as frogs that overran their land. ² 

Its foliage was attractive and its fruit plentiful; on it there was food enough for all. Under it the wild animals ¹  used to seek shade, and in its branches the birds of the sky used to nest. All creatures ²  used to feed themselves from it.

adultery, greed, evil, deceit, debauchery, envy, slander, pride, and folly.

I wrote you in my letter not to associate with sexually immoral people.

yet we know ¹  that no one ²  is justified by the works of the law ³  but by the faithfulness of Jesus Christ. ⁴  And ⁵  we have come to believe in Christ Jesus, so that we may be justified by the faithfulness of Christ ⁶  and not by the works of the law, because by the works of the law no one ⁷  will be justified.

and their message will spread its infection ¹  like gangrene. Hymenaeus and Philetus are in this group. ² 

Such ¹  wisdom does not come ²  from above but is earthly, natural, ³  demonic.

it is a chronic ¹  disease on the skin of his body, ²  so the priest is to pronounce him unclean. ³  The priest ⁴  must not merely quarantine him, for he is unclean. ⁵ 

the priest must then examine it, ¹  and if ²  the disease covers his whole body, he is to pronounce the person with the infection clean. ³  He has turned all white, so he is clean. ⁴ 

Now this is his uncleanness in regard to his discharge ¹  – whether his body secretes his discharge or blocks his discharge, he is unclean. All the days that his body has a discharge or his body blocks his discharge, ²  this is his uncleanness. ³ 

the person who touches any of these ¹  will be unclean until evening and must not eat from the holy offerings unless he has bathed his body in water.

And do this ¹  to them to purify them: Sprinkle water of purification ²  on them; then have them shave ³  all their body ⁴  and wash ⁵  their clothes, and so purify themselves. ⁶ 

¹ Now the mixed multitude ²  who were among them craved more desirable foods, ³  and so the Israelites wept again ⁴  and said, “If only we had meat to eat! ⁵