JMNT(i)
18 Constantly flee (Repeatedly take flight [from])
the prostitution. [note: this would also apply to idolatry in pagan temples which used prostitutes as part of the idol worship]
The effect (or: result)
of every sin (failure to hit the target; error; mistake) –
whatsoever a person may do – exists being outside of the body. Yet the one habitually committing prostitution (practicing sexual immorality)
is habitually sinning (sowing errors and mistakes)
into his own body. [note: both his physical body, and the body of the called-out community]
19 Or, have you folks not seen so as to know that your body (or: the body of you folks)
is a temple of the set-apart spirit (or: a sanctuary belonging to the Holy Spirit; a holy place and a holy of holies which pertains to the Sacred Breath; or: that the body, which is you folks, exists being a divine habitation which has the qualities and characteristics of the Holy Attitude) –
within the midst of you (or: in union with you folks; or: among you people) –
which you people constantly hold and progressively possess from God? And further, you are not folks belonging to yourselves (or: Also then, you people do not exist from yourselves),
20 for you people were bought, as at a marketplace: [
there was]
value and honor involved in the price (or: [you are] of value) (or: = for you were bought and paid for; or: for from a valuable price you folks were bought at market).
By all means then, glorify God (bring a good reputation to God; manifest that which calls forth praise to God)
within your body (or: within the midst of the body which you folks are)!