1 Corinthians 6:15

Identity and self-worth Purity Jesus Christ

¹³ Meats for the belly, and the belly for meats: but God shall destroy both it and them. Now the body is not for fornication, but for the Lord; and the Lord for the body.

¹⁴ And God hath both raised up the Lord, and will also raise up us by his own power.

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.

¹⁶ What? know ye not that he which is joined to an harlot is one body? for two, saith he, shall be one flesh.

¹⁷ But he that is joined unto the Lord is one 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, of his flesh, and of his bones.
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Romans 12:5
So we, being many, are one body in Christ, and every one members one of another.
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Ephesians 4:15–16
But speaking the truth in love, may grow up into him in all things, which is the head, even Christ:
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Colossians 2:19
And not holding the Head, from which all the body by joints and bands having nourishment ministered, and knit together, increaseth with the increase of God.
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1 Corinthians 12:27
Now ye are the body of Christ, and members in particular.
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Ephesians 4:12
For the perfecting of the saints, for the work of the ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ:
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1 Corinthians 6:19
What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own?
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1 Corinthians 11:3
But I would have you know, that the head of every man is Christ; and the head of the woman is the man; and the head of Christ is God.
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