^18 (A)Flee sexual immorality. Every other sin that a person commits is outside the body, but the ^[a]sexually immoral person sins against his own body.

²⁸ but I say to you that everyone who looks at a woman ^(A)with lust for her has already committed adultery with her in his heart. ²⁹ Now ^(B)if your right eye is causing you to sin, tear it out and throw it away from you; for it is better for you to lose one of the parts of your body, ^[a]than for your whole body to be thrown into ^[b](C)hell.

³ But ^(A)sexual immorality ^[a]or any impurity or greed must not even be mentioned among you, as is proper among ^[b]saints; ⁴ and there must be no ^(B)filthiness ^[c]or foolish talk, or vulgar joking, which ^(C)are not fitting, but rather ^(D)giving of thanks.

⁵ For this you know with certainty, that ^(A)no sexually immoral or ^[a]impure or greedy person, which ^[b]amounts to an idolater, has an inheritance in the kingdom ^(B)of Christ and God.

^6 (C)See that no one deceives you with empty words, for because of these things ^(D)the wrath of God comes upon ^(E)the ^[c]sons of disobedience.

¹⁹ Now the deeds of the flesh are evident, which are: ^(A)sexual immorality, impurity, indecent behavior,

²¹ envy, ^(A)drunkenness, carousing, and things like these, of which I forewarn you, just as I have forewarned you, that those who practice such things will not ^(B)inherit the kingdom of God.

³ For this is the will of God, your sanctification; that is, that you ^(A)abstain from sexual immorality; ⁴ that ^(B)each of you know how to ^[a]possess his own ^[b](C)vessel in sanctification and ^(D)honor, ⁵ not in ^[c](E)lustful passion, like the Gentiles who ^(F)do not know God;

⁷ For ^(A)God has not called us for ^[a](B)impurity, but in sanctification.

¹⁶ that there be no ^(A)sexually immoral or ^(B)godless person like Esau, ^(C)who sold his own birthright for a single meal.