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NASB | 1 Corinthians 6:18 Flee immorality. Every other sin that a man commits is outside the body, but the immoral man sins against his own body. |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | 1 Corinthians 6:18 Run away from sexual immorality [in any form, whether thought or behavior, whether visual or written]. Every other sin that a man commits is outside the body, but the one who is sexually immoral sins against his own body. |
Bible Question: Why is the NASB the only translation that leaves out reference to sexual immorality? All other translations/versions that I've seen (KJV,NKJV, Amplified, NIV, NCV, ASV) specify sexual immorality. Just wondering what the original text says, and why this was omitted. Thanks |
Bible Answer: 1 Corinthians 6:18 according to The Emphatic Diaglott(1942 edition), under the Greek.reads literally, "Flee you the fornication. All sins which if may do a man,outside of the body is; he but committing fornication against the own body sins." Also The Kingdom Interlinear Translation of the Greek Scriptures, which used "The New Testament in the Original Greek---The Text Revised by Brooke Foss Westcott D.D. and Fenton John Anthony Hort D.D.(1948 Reprint)reads literally,"Be you fleeing from the fornication; every sinful (thing) which if ever might do man outside of the body it is, the (one) but committing fornication into the own body is sinning." The New World Translation reads, "Flee from fornication. Every other sin that a man may commit is outside his body, but he that practices fornication is sinning against his own body." The Greek word translated "fornication" is por·nei´a. Regarding the meanings of por·nei´a, B. F. Westcott in his book Saint Paul's Epistle to the Ephesians (1906, p. 76) says: "This is a general term for all unlawful intercourse, (I) adultery: Hos. ii. 2, 4 (LXX.); Matt. v. 32; xix. 9; (2) unlawful marriage, I Cor. v. I; (3) fornication, the common sense as here [Eph 5:3]." Bauer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament (revised by F. W. Gingrich and F. Danker, 1979, p. 693) defines por·nei´a as "prostitution, unchastity, fornication, of every kind of unlawful sexual intercourse." Porneia is understood to involve the grossly immoral use of the genital organ(s) of at least one human; also there must have been two or more parties (including another consenting human or a beast), whether of the same sex or the opposite sex. (Jude 7) The unlawful act of a rapist is fornication, but, of course, that does not make the person who is forcibly raped also a fornicator. |