¹⁶ lest there be any ^(A)fornicator or ^[a]profane person like Esau, ^(B)who for one morsel of food sold his birthright.

³¹ But Jacob said, “Sell me your birthright as of this day.”

³² And Esau said, “Look, I am about to die; so ^(A)what is this birthright to me?”

³³ Then Jacob said, ^[a]“Swear to me as of this day.”

So he swore to him, and ^(B)sold his birthright to Jacob. ³⁴ And Jacob gave Esau bread and stew of lentils; then ^(C)he ate and drank, arose, and went his way. Thus Esau ^(D)despised his birthright.

¹⁵ Do you not know that ^(A)your bodies are members of Christ? Shall I then take the members of Christ and make them members of a harlot? Certainly not! ¹⁶ Or do you not know that he who is joined to a harlot is one body with her? For ^(B)“the two,” He says, “shall become one flesh.” ^17 (C)But he who is joined to the Lord is one spirit with Him.

^18 (D)Flee sexual immorality. Every sin that a man does is outside the body, but he who commits sexual immorality sins ^(E)against his own body. ¹⁹ Or ^(F)do you not know that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have from God, ^(G)and you are not your own? ²⁰ For ^(H)you were bought at a price; therefore glorify God in your body ^[a]and in your spirit, which are God’s.

^15 [a]But ^(A)outside are ^(B)dogs and sorcerers and sexually immoral and murderers and idolaters, and whoever loves and practices a lie.

^4 (A)Marriage is honorable among all, and the bed undefiled; ^(B)but fornicators and adulterers God will judge.

^8 (A)But the cowardly, ^[a]unbelieving, abominable, murderers, sexually immoral, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars shall have their part in ^(B)the lake which burns with fire and brimstone, which is the second death.”

²⁰ Nevertheless I have ^[a]a few things against you, because you allow ^[b]that woman ^(A)Jezebel, who calls herself a prophetess, ^[c]to teach and seduce My servants ^(B)to commit sexual immorality and eat things sacrificed to idols. ²¹ And I gave her time ^(C)to ^[d]repent of her sexual immorality, and she did not repent. ²² Indeed I will cast her into a sickbed, and those who commit adultery with her into great tribulation, unless they repent of ^[e]their deeds. ²³ I will kill her children with death, and all the churches shall know that I am He who ^(D)searches^[f] the minds and hearts. And I will give to each one of you according to your works.

³ For this is ^(A)the will of God, ^(B)your sanctification: ^(C)that you should abstain from sexual immorality; ^4 (D)that each of you should know how to possess his own vessel in sanctification and honor, ^5 (E)not in passion of lust, ^(F)like the Gentiles ^(G)who do not know God; ⁶ that no one should take advantage of and defraud his brother in this matter, because the Lord ^(H)is the avenger of all such, as we also forewarned you and testified. ⁷ For God did not call us to uncleanness, ^(I)but in holiness.