17 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.

• Holiness
• Obedience and Disobedience
• Sin

• Sexual abstinence outside marriage

5 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.

• 1Cor 3:17 — If any man defile the temple of God, him shall God destroy; for the temple of God is holy, which temple ye are.
• 1Cor 5:1 — It is reported commonly that there is fornication among you, and such fornication as is not so much as named among the Gentiles, that one should have his father’s wife.
• 1Cor 6:9 — Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind,
• 1Cor 7:2 — Nevertheless, to avoid fornication, let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband.
• 1Cor 10:8 — Neither let us commit fornication, as some of them committed, and fell in one day three and twenty thousand.
• 1Pet 2:11 — Dearly beloved, I beseech you as strangers and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;
• 1Thess 4:3 — For this is the will of God, even your sanctification, that ye should abstain from fornication:
• 1Thess 4:4 — That every one of you should know how to possess his vessel in sanctification and honour;
• 1Thess 4:5 — Not in the lust of concupiscence, even as the Gentiles which know not God:
• 1Tim 6:11 — But thou, O man of God, flee these things; and follow after righteousness, godliness, faith, love, patience, meekness.
• 2Cor 12:21 — And lest, when I come again, my God will humble me among you, and that I shall bewail many which have sinned already, and have not repented of the uncleanness and fornication and lasciviousness which
• 2Tim 2:22 — Flee also youthful lusts: but follow righteousness, faith, charity, peace, with them that call on the Lord out of a pure heart.
• 2Tim 2:22 — Flee also youthful lusts: but follow righteousness, faith, charity, peace, with them that call on the Lord out of a pure heart.
• Acts 15:20 — But that we write unto them, that they abstain from pollutions of idols, and from fornication, and from things strangled, and from blood.
• Col 3:5 — Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness, which is idolatry:
• Col 3:5 — Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness, which is idolatry:
• Eph 5:3 — But fornication, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not be once named among you, as becometh saints;
• Eph 5:3 — But fornication, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not be once named among you, as becometh saints;
• Gal 5:19 — Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness,
• Gen 39:10 — And it came to pass, as she spake to Joseph day by day, that he hearkened not unto her, to lie by her, or to be with her.
• Gen 39:12 — And she caught him by his garment, saying, Lie with me: and he left his garment in her hand, and fled, and got him out.
• Heb 13:4 — Marriage is honourable in all, and the bed undefiled: but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge.
• Prov 2:16 — To deliver thee from the strange woman, even from the stranger which flattereth with her words;
• Prov 5:3 — For the lips of a strange woman drop as an honeycomb, and her mouth is smoother than oil:
• Prov 6:24 — To keep thee from the evil woman, from the flattery of the tongue of a strange woman.
• Prov 7:5 — That they may keep thee from the strange woman, from the stranger which flattereth with her words.
• Prov 9:16 — Whoso is simple, let him turn in hither: and as for him that wanteth understanding, she saith to him,
• Rom 1:24 — Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonour their own bodies between themselves:
• Rom 1:24 — Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonour their own bodies between themselves:
• Rom 6:12 — Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, that ye should obey it in the lusts thereof.