1 Corinthians 6:18 (WEB)
Flee sexual immorality! “Every sin that a man does is outside the body,” but he who commits sexual immorality sins against his own body.
Fathers and councils · 8
Ambrose of Milan
“Let us also pass over this fire of lust, fearing which Paul—but fearing for us, inasmuch as by buffeting his body he had come no longer to fear for himself—says to us: “Flee fornication.”” — editor's note: 1 Cor. vi. 18.
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Cyprian of Carthage
“…body and God’s temple, as says the apostle: “Every sin that a man doeth is without the body, but he that committeth fornication sinneth against his own body.”” — editor's note: 1 Cor. vi. 18.
Read the whole comment“Glorify and bear the Lord in your body.”” — editor's note: 1 Cor. vi. 18–20.
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Jerome
“This is what the apostle says in other words: “Every sin that a man doeth is without the body; but he that committeth fornication sinneth against his own body.”” — editor's note: 1 Cor. vi. 18.
Read the whole comment“Amandus a presbyter of Burdigala (Bourdeaux) had written to Jerome for an explanation of three passages of scripture, viz. Matt. vi. 34, 1 Cor. vi. 18, 1 Cor. xv. 25, 26, and had in the same letter on behalf of a ‘sister’ (supposed by Thierry to have been Fabiola) put the following…” — the author cites it
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Tertullian
““Every sin which a human being may have committed is extraneous to the body; but whoever fornicateth, sinneth against his own body.”” — editor's note: 1 Cor. vi. 18.
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Augustine of Hippo
“…them, in order that it may place in them its final good, then whatever it does, it does wickedly, and commits fornication, sinning against its own body: and while snatching from within the deceitful images of corporeal things, and combining them by vain thought, so that nothing seems to it to be divine, unless…” — editor's note: 1 Cor. vi. 18
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Clement of Alexandria
“Ad eos autem pudore afficiendos et reprimendos, qui sunt proclives ad secundas nuptias, apte Apostolus alto quodam tono eloquitur; inquit enim: “Ecce, omne peccatum est extra corpus; qui autem fornicatur, in proprium corpus peccat.”” — editor's note: 1 Cor. vi. 18.
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