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 is God’s will: that you become holy, ¹  that you keep away from sexual immorality,

For from within, out of the human heart, come evil ideas, sexual immorality, theft, murder,

But because of immoralities, each man should have relations with ¹  his own wife and each woman with ²  her own husband.

For out of the heart come evil ideas, murder, adultery, sexual immorality, theft, false testimony, slander.

And let us not be immoral, as some of them were, and twenty-three thousand died in a single day. ¹ 

but that we should write them a letter ¹  telling them to abstain ²  from things defiled ³  by idols and from sexual immorality and from what has been strangled ⁴  and from blood.

But ¹  among you there must not be either sexual immorality, impurity of any kind, ²  or greed, as these are not fitting for the saints. ³ 

So put to death whatever in your nature belongs to the earth: ¹  sexual immorality, impurity, shameful passion, ²  evil desire, and greed which is idolatry.

It is actually reported that sexual immorality exists among you, the kind of immorality that is not permitted even among the Gentiles, so that someone is cohabiting with ¹  his father’s wife.

So also ¹  Sodom and Gomorrah and the neighboring towns, ²  since they indulged in sexual immorality and pursued unnatural desire ³  in a way similar to ⁴  these angels, ⁵  are now displayed as an example by suffering the punishment of eternal fire.

“‘No man is to approach any close relative ¹  to have sexual intercourse with her. ²  I am the Lord. ³ 

You must not have sexual intercourse with your mother’s sister, because she is your mother’s flesh.

You must not have sexual intercourse ¹  with the wife of your fellow citizen to become unclean with her.

Now the works of the flesh ¹  are obvious: ²  sexual immorality, impurity, depravity,

“Whoever has sexual relations ¹  with a beast must surely be put to death.

Furthermore, ¹  they did not repent of their murders, of their magic spells, ²  of their sexual immorality, or of their stealing.

You must not have sexual intercourse ¹  with any animal to become defiled with it, and a woman must not stand before an animal to have sexual intercourse with it; ²  it is a perversion. ³ 

I am afraid that ¹  when I come again, my God may humiliate me before you, and I will grieve for ²  many of those who previously sinned and have not repented of the impurity, sexual immorality, and licentiousness that they have practiced.

that you abstain from meat that has been sacrificed to idols ¹  and from blood and from what has been strangled ²  and from sexual immorality. ³  If you keep yourselves from doing these things, ⁴  you will do well. Farewell. ⁵