16 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.

1 variant unit attested by manuscript witnesses and modern critical editions.

• Holiness
• Idolatry
• Kingdom of God
• Sin

• Homosexual practice and biblical sexual ethics

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

• 1Cor 1:2 — Unto the church of God which is at Corinth, to them that are sanctified in Christ Jesus, called to be saints, with all that in every place call upon the name of Jesus Christ our Lord, both theirs and
• 1Cor 3:16 — Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you?
• 1Cor 3:16 — Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you?
• 1Cor 3:18 — Let no man deceive himself. If any man among you seemeth to be wise in this world, let him become a fool, that he may be wise.
• 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 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 5:8 — Therefore let us keep the feast, not with old leaven, neither with the leaven of malice and wickedness; but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.
• 1Cor 5:10 — Yet not altogether with the fornicators of this world, or with the covetous, or extortioners, or with idolaters; for then must ye needs go out of the world.
• 1Cor 6:2 — Do ye not know that the saints shall judge the world? and if the world shall be judged by you, are ye unworthy to judge the smallest matters?
• 1Cor 6:10 — Nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God.
• 1Cor 6:15 — Know ye not that your bodies are the members of Christ? shall I then take the members of Christ, and make them the members of an harlot? God forbid.
• 1Cor 6:18 — Flee fornication. Every sin that a man doeth is without the body; but he that committeth fornication sinneth against his own body.
• 1Cor 6:19 — What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own?
• 1Cor 9:24 — Know ye not that they which run in a race run all, but one receiveth the prize? So run, that ye may obtain.
• 1Cor 10:7 — Neither be ye idolaters, as were some of them; as it is written, The people sat down to eat and drink, and rose up to play.
• 1Cor 10:8 — Neither let us commit fornication, as some of them committed, and fell in one day three and twenty thousand.
• 1Cor 15:33 — Be not deceived: evil communications corrupt good manners.
• 1Cor 15:33 — Be not deceived: evil communications corrupt good manners.
• 1Cor 15:50 — Now this I say, brethren, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God; neither doth corruption inherit incorruption.
• 1John 3:7 — Little children, let no man deceive you: he that doeth righteousness is righteous, even as he is righteous.
• 1Kgs 14:24 — And there were also sodomites in the land: and they did according to all the abominations of the nations which the LORD cast out before the children of Israel.
• 1Thess 4:3 — For this is the will of God, even your sanctification, that ye should abstain from fornication:
• 1Tim 1:9 — Knowing this, that the law is not made for a righteous man, but for the lawless and disobedient, for the ungodly and for sinners, for unholy and profane, for murderers of fathers and murderers of moth
• 1Tim 1:10 — For whoremongers, for them that defile themselves with mankind, for menstealers, for liars, for perjured persons, and if there be any other thing that is contrary to sound doctrine;
• 2Pet 2:10 — But chiefly them that walk after the flesh in the lust of uncleanness, and despise government. Presumptuous are they, selfwilled, they are not afraid to speak evil of dignities.
• 2Thess 2:3 — Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come, except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition;
• 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.
• Acts 24:25 — And as he reasoned of righteousness, temperance, and judgment to come, Felix trembled, and answered, Go thy way for this time; when I have a convenient season, I will call for thee.
• Col 1:13 — Who hath delivered us from the power of darkness, and hath translated us into the kingdom of his dear Son:
• Col 1:21 — And you, that were sometime alienated and enemies in your mind by wicked works, yet now hath he reconciled
• Col 3:5 — Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness, which is idolatry:
• Deut 22:5 — The woman shall not wear that which pertaineth unto a man, neither shall a man put on a woman’s garment: for all that do so are abomination unto the LORD thy God.
• Deut 23:17 — There shall be no whore of the daughters of Israel, nor a sodomite of the sons of Israel.
• Deut 23:17 — There shall be no whore of the daughters of Israel, nor a sodomite of the sons of Israel.
• Deut 25:13 — Thou shalt not have in thy bag divers weights, a great and a small.
• Deut 25:16 — For all that do such things, and all that do unrighteously, are an abomination unto the LORD thy God.
• Deut 27:9 — And Moses and the priests the Levites spake unto all Israel, saying, Take heed, and hearken, O Israel; this day thou art become the people of the LORD thy God.
• Eph 2:3 — Among whom also we all had our conversation in times past in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind; and were by nature the children of wrath, even as others.
• Eph 5:3 — But fornication, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not be once named among you, as becometh saints;
• Eph 5:4 — Neither filthiness, nor foolish talking, nor jesting, which are not convenient: but rather giving of thanks.