1 Corinthians 6:16 Parallel Translations

Don't you realize that the person who unites himself with a prostitute becomes one body with her? God says, "The two will be one."(GOD'S WORD®)

KJV:

What? know ye not that he which is joined to an harlot is one body? for two, saith he, shall be one flesh.

ASV:

Or know ye not that he that is joined to a harlot is one body? for, The twain, saith he, shall become one flesh.

BBE:

Or do you not see that he who is joined to a loose woman is one body with her? for God has said, The two of them will become one flesh.

DBY:

Do ye not know that he that is joined to the harlot is one body? for the two, he says, shall be one flesh.

ERV:

Or know ye not that he that is joined to a harlot is one body? for, The twain, saith he, shall become one flesh.

WEY:

Or do you not know that a man who has to do with a prostitute is one with her in body? For God says, "The two shall become one."

WBS:

What? know ye not that he who is joined to a harlot is one body? for two, saith he, shall be one flesh.

WEB:

Or don't you know that he who is joined to a prostitute is one body? For, "The two," says he, "will become one flesh."

YLT:

have ye not known that he who is joined to the harlot is one body? 'for they shall be -- saith He -- the two for one flesh.'

1 Corinthians 6:16 Cross References

XREF:

Genesis 2:24 For this reason a man shall leave his father and his mother, and be joined to his wife; and they shall become one flesh.

Matthew 19:5 and said, 'FOR THIS REASON A MAN SHALL LEAVE HIS FATHER AND MOTHER AND BE JOINED TO HIS WIFE, AND THE TWO SHALL BECOME ONE FLESH '?

Mark 10:8 AND THE TWO SHALL BECOME ONE FLESH; so they are no longer two, but one flesh.

1 Corinthians 6:3 Do you not know that we will judge angels? How much more matters of this life?

Ephesians 5:31 FOR THIS REASON A MAN SHALL LEAVE HIS FATHER AND MOTHER AND SHALL BE JOINED TO HIS WIFE, AND THE TWO SHALL BECOME ONE FLESH. (NASB ©1995)

Commentaries and Concordances

GSB:

6:16 {12} What? know ye not that he which is joined to an harlot is one body? for {i} two, saith he, shall be one flesh.
(12) A proof of the same argument: a harlot and Christ are completely contrary, so are the flesh and the Spirit. Therefore he that is one with a harlot (which is done by sexual intercourse with their bodies) cannot be one with Christ, which unity is pure and spiritual.
(i) Moses does not speak these words about fornication, but about marriage: but seeing that fornication is the corruption of marriage, and both of them are a carnal and fleshly copulation, we cannot say that the apostle abuses his testimony. Again, Moses does not have this word two, but it is very well expressed both here and in Mt 19:5, because he speaks only of man and wife: whereupon the opinion of those that vouch it to be lawful to have many wives is overthrown: for he that companies with many, is broken as it were into many parts.

WES:

6:16 Gen 2:24.

MHC:

6:12-20 Some among the Corinthians seem to have been ready to say, All things are lawful for me. This dangerous conceit St. Paul opposes. There is a liberty wherewith Christ has made us free, in which we must stand fast. But surely a Christian would never put himself into the power of any bodily appetite. The body is for the Lord; is to be an instrument of righteousness to holiness, therefore is never to be made an instrument of sin. It is an honour to the body, that Jesus Christ was raised from the dead; and it will be an honour to our bodies, that they will be raised. The hope of a resurrection to glory, should keep Christians from dishonouring their bodies by fleshly lusts. And if the soul be united to Christ by faith, the whole man is become a member of his spiritual body. Other vices may be conquered in fight; that here cautioned against, only by flight. And vast multitudes are cut off by this vice in its various forms and consequences. Its effects fall not only directly upon the body, but often upon the mind. Our bodies have been redeemed from deserved condemnation and hopeless slavery by the atoning sacrifice of Christ. We are to be clean, as vessels fitted for our Master's use. Being united to Christ as one spirit, and bought with a price of unspeakable value, the believer should consider himself as wholly the Lord's, by the strongest ties. May we make it our business, to the latest day and hour of our lives, to glorify God with our bodies, and with our spirits which are his.

CONC:

Becomes Body Flesh Harlot Joined Joins Loose Prostitute Says Twain Written

Body Flesh Harlot Joined Joins Loose Prostitute Twain Unites Written

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