1 Corinthians 6:15
13 “Food for the stomach and the stomach for food,” but God will destroy them both. The body is not intended for sexual immorality, but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body.
14 By His power God raised the Lord from the dead, and He will raise us also.
Do you not know that your bodies are members of Christ? Shall I then take the members of Christ and unite them with a prostitute? Never!
16 Or don’t you know that he who unites himself with a prostitute is one with her in body? For it is said, “The two will become one flesh.”
17 But he who unites himself with the Lord is one with Him in spirit.
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- Do you not know that your bodies are members of Christ? Shall I then take the members of Christ and unite them with a prostitute? Never!
- KJV
- Know ye not that your bodies are the members of Christ? shall I then take the members of Christ, and make them the members of an harlot? God forbid.
- WEB
- Don’t you know that your bodies are members of Christ? Shall I then take the members of Christ and make them members of a prostitute? May it never be!
- ASV
- Know ye not that your bodies are members of Christ? shall I then take away the members of Christ, and make them members of a harlot? God forbid.
- DARBY
- Do ye not know that your bodies are members of Christ? Shall I then, taking the members of the Christ, make [them] members of a harlot? Far be the thought.
- BLB
- Do you⁺ not know that your⁺ bodies are members of Christ? Having taken, then, the members of the Christ, shall I make [them] members of a prostitute? Never may it be!
- ÅB
- Vet dere ikke at deres legemer er Kristi lemmer? skal jeg da ta Kristi lemmer og gjøre dem til en skjøges lemmer? Langt derifra!
- OTB
- Vet dere ikke at kroppene deres er lemmer av Kristus? Skal jeg da ta Kristi lemmer og forene dem med en prostituert? Slett ikke!
- B1930
- Vet I ikke at eders legemer er Kristi lemmer? skal jeg da ta Kristi lemmer og gjøre dem til en skjøges lemmer? Langt derifra!
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Ephesians 5:30
For we are members of His body.
Read in contextRomans 12:5
so in Christ we who are many are one body, and each member belongs to one another.
Read in contextEphesians 4:15–16
Instead, speaking the truth in love, we will in all things grow up into Christ Himself, who is the head.
Read in contextColossians 2:19
He has lost connection to the head, from whom the whole body, supported and knit together by its joints and ligaments, grows as God causes it to grow.
Read in context1 Corinthians 12:27
Now you are the body of Christ, and each of you is a member of it.
Read in contextEphesians 4:12
to equip the saints for works of ministry and to build up the body of Christ,
Read in context1 Corinthians 6:19
Do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have received from God? You are not your own;
Read in context1 Corinthians 11:3
But I want you to understand that the head of every man is Christ, and the head of the woman is man, and the head of Christ is God.
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