Common English Bible
Confronting sexual immorality in the church
Everyone has heard that there is sexual immorality among you. This is a type of immorality that isn’t even heard of among the Gentiles—a man is having sex with his father’s wife!
New Living Translation
Paul Condemns Spiritual Pride
I can hardly believe the report about the sexual immorality going on among you—something that even pagans don’t do. I am told that a man in your church is living in sin with his stepmother.
New King James Version
Immorality Defiles the Church
It is actually reported that there is sexual immorality among you, and such sexual immorality as is not even named among the Gentiles—that a man has his father’s wife!
New King James Version
Immorality Must Be Judged
I wrote to you in my epistle not to keep company with sexually immoral people.
Common English Bible
Avoid sexual immorality
I have the freedom to do anything, but not everything is helpful. I have the freedom to do anything, but I won’t be controlled by anything.
Common English Bible
Food is for the stomach and the stomach is for food, and yet God will do away with both. The body isn’t for sexual immorality but for the Lord, and the Lord is for the body.
New Living Translation
You say, “Food was made for the stomach, and the stomach for food.” (This is true, though someday God will do away with both of them.) But you can’t say that our bodies were made for sexual immorality. They were made for the Lord, and the Lord cares about our bodies.
New King James Version
Foods for the stomach and the stomach for foods, but God will destroy both it and them. Now the body is not for sexual immorality but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body.
Common English Bible
Avoid sexual immorality! Every sin that a person can do is committed outside the body, except those who engage in sexual immorality commit sin against their own bodies.
New Living Translation
Run from sexual sin! No other sin so clearly affects the body as this one does. For sexual immorality is a sin against your own body.
New King James Version
Flee sexual immorality. Every sin that a man does is outside the body, but he who commits sexual immorality sins against his own body.
Common English Bible
Each man should have his own wife, and each woman should have her own husband because of sexual immorality.
New Living Translation
But because there is so much sexual immorality, each man should have his own wife, and each woman should have her own husband.
New King James Version
Nevertheless, because of sexual immorality, let each man have his own wife, and let each woman have her own husband.
Common English Bible
Let’s not practice sexual immorality, like some of them did, and twenty-three thousand died in one day.
New Living Translation
And we must not engage in sexual immorality as some of them did, causing 23,000 of them to die in one day.
New King James Version
Nor let us commit sexual immorality, as some of them did, and in one day twenty-three thousand fell;