1 Corinthians 6:16
14 By His power God raised the Lord from the dead, and He will raise us also.
15 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!
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.
18 Flee from sexual immorality. Every other sin a man can commit is outside his body, but he who sins sexually sins against his own body.
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- 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.”
- KJV
- What? know ye not that he which is joined to an 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”, he says, “will become 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.
- DARBY
- Do ye not know that he [that is] joined to the harlot is one body? for the two, he says, shall be one flesh.
- BLB
- Or do you⁺ not know that the one being joined to the prostitute is one body? For it says, “The two will be into one flesh.”
- ÅB
- Eller vet dere ikke at den som holder seg til skjøgen, er ett legeme med henne? For det er sagt: De to skal være ett kjød.
- OTB
- Eller er dere ikke klar over at den som forener seg med en prostituert blir ett legeme med henne? For det er sagt: "De to skal bli ett kjød."
- B1930
- Eller vet I ikke at den som holder sig til skjøgen, er ett legeme med henne? For det er sagt: De to skal være ett kjød.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Genesis 2:24
For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and they will become one flesh.
Read in contextEphesians 5:31
“For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh.”
Read in contextMark 10:8
and the two will become one flesh.’ So they are no longer two, but one flesh.
Read in contextMatthew 19:5–6
and said, ‘For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh’?
Read in contextMatthew 21:31–32
Which of the two did the will of his father?” “The first,” they answered. Jesus said to them, “Truly I tell you, the tax collectors and prostitutes are entering the kingdom of God before you.
Read in contextHebrews 11:31
By faith the prostitute Rahab, because she welcomed the spies in peace, did not perish with those who were disobedient.
Read in contextGenesis 34:31
But they replied, “Should he have treated our sister like a prostitute?”
Read in contextJudges 16:1
One day Samson went to Gaza, where he saw a prostitute and went in to spend the night with her.
Read in context