Flee fornication. Every sin that a man doeth is without the body; but he that committeth fornication sinneth against his own body.
KJV
Greek original
Louis Segond 1910
Fuyez l'impudicité. Quelque autre péché qu'un homme commette, ce péché est hors du corps; mais celui qui se livre à l'impudicité pèche contre son propre corps.
KJV
Flee fornication. Every sin that a man doeth is without the body; but he that committeth fornication sinneth against his own body.
Thomas Aquinas
Summa Theologica
d apply chiefly to those sins whereby man sins against his own body. But, according to the Apostle ( 1 Cor. 6:18 ), "every sin that a man doth, is without the body: but he that committeth fornication, sinneth against his own body." Therefore fornication would be the only carnal s…
Thomas Aquinas
Summa Theologica
hen a continued thought increases the incentive to sin, as in lust; for which reason it is written ( 1 Cor. 6:18 ): "Fly fornication"; by resistance, when perseverance in the thought diminishes the incentive to sin, which incentive arises from some trivial consideration. This is…
Thomas Aquinas
Summa Theologica
a sin against oneself, for this pertains properly to gluttony and lust, of which the Apostle says ( 1 Cor. 6:18 ): "He that committeth fornication sinneth against his own body." In like manner neither is it apparently a sin against one's neighbor, since a man harms no one by keep…
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