14 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.

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

• Holiness
• Obedience and Disobedience
• Sin

• Sexual abstinence outside marriage

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

• 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 5:10 — 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 6:9 — 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 6:13 — Meats for the belly, and the belly for meats: but God shall destroy both it and them. Now the body is not for fornication, but for the Lord; and the Lord for the body.
• 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 6:18 — Flee fornication. Every sin that a man doeth is without the body; but he that committeth fornication sinneth against his own body.
• 1Cor 7:35 — And this I speak for your own profit; not that I may cast a snare upon you, but for that which is comely, and that ye may attend upon the Lord without distraction.
• 1Cor 10:8 — Neither let us commit fornication, as some of them committed, and fell in one day three and twenty thousand.
• 1Thess 4:3 — For this is the will of God, even your sanctification, that ye should abstain from fornication:
• 1Thess 4:3 — For this is the will of God, even your sanctification, that ye should abstain from fornication:
• 1Thess 4:7 — For God hath not called us unto uncleanness, but unto holiness.
• 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;
• 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
• 2Pet 2:3 — And through covetousness shall they with feigned words make merchandise of you: whose judgment now of a long time lingereth not, and their damnation slumbereth not.
• 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 4:19 — Who being past feeling have given themselves over unto lasciviousness, to work all uncleanness with greediness.
• Eph 4:29 — Let no corrupt communication proceed out of your mouth, but that which is good to the use of edifying, that it may minister grace unto the hearers.
• Eph 5:5 — For this ye know, that no whoremonger, nor unclean person, nor covetous man, who is an idolater, hath any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God.
• Eph 5:5 — For this ye know, that no whoremonger, nor unclean person, nor covetous man, who is an idolater, hath any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God.
• Eph 5:12 — For it is a shame even to speak of those things which are done of them in secret.
• Eph 5:12 — For it is a shame even to speak of those things which are done of them in secret.
• Exod 20:14 — Thou shalt not commit adultery.
• Exod 20:17 — Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour’s house, thou shalt not covet thy neighbour’s wife, nor his manservant, nor his maidservant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor any thing that is thy neighbour’s.
• Exod 20:17 — Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour’s house, thou shalt not covet thy neighbour’s wife, nor his manservant, nor his maidservant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor any thing that is thy neighbour’s.
• Ezek 33:31 — And they come unto thee as the people cometh, and they sit before thee as my people, and they hear thy words, but they will not do them: for with their mouth they shew much love, but their heart goeth
• Gal 5:19 — Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness,
• Gal 5:19 — Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness,
• Heb 12:16 — Lest there be any fornicator, or profane person, as Esau, who for one morsel of meat sold his birthright.
• Heb 13:4 — Marriage is honourable in all, and the bed undefiled: but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge.
• Heb 13:5 — Let your conversation be without covetousness; and be content with such things as ye have: for he hath said, I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee.
• Isa 57:17 — For the iniquity of his covetousness was I wroth, and smote him: I hid me, and was wroth, and he went on frowardly in the way of his heart.
• Jas 3:6 — And the tongue is a fire, a world of iniquity: so is the tongue among our members, that it defileth the whole body, and setteth on fire the course of nature; and it is set on fire of hell.
• Luke 6:45 — A good man out of the good treasure of his heart bringeth forth that which is good; and an evil man out of the evil treasure of his heart bringeth forth that which is evil: for of the abundance of the
• Luke 12:15 — And he said unto them, Take heed, and beware of covetousness: for a man’s life consisteth not in the abundance of the things which he possesseth.
• Mark 4:21 — And he said unto them, Is a candle brought to be put under a bushel, or under a bed? and not to be set on a candlestick?
• Mark 7:21 — For from within, out of the heart of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders,
• Matt 15:19 — For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies: