6:18a Flee from sexual immorality.

Be very careful that you do not behave immorally.
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Have nothing at all to do with sexually bad ways.
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Absolutely do not have sex with anyone except your spouse.

6:18b Every other sin a man can commit is outside his body,

Other kinds of sins are not sins against one’s own body ⌊in the same way⌋.
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When people sin, they usually do not sin against their own bodies.
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All the ⌊other⌋ sins that people do are not sins that affect/harm their own bodies in the way

6:18c but he who sins sexually sins against his own body.

But when people have sex with people they are not married to, they sin against their own body.
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But people who behave in sexually bad ways are wronging their own bodies.
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that having sex with someone they are not married to harms them.

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