1 Corinthians 6:16

American Standard Version (1901)

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

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Referenced Verses

  • Gen 2:24 : 24 Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.
  • Eph 5:31 : 31 For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife; and the two shall become one flesh.
  • Mark 10:8 : 8 and the two shall become one flesh: so that they are no more two, but one flesh.
  • Matt 19:5-6 : 5 and said, For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife; and the two shall become one flesh? 6 So that they are no more two, but one flesh. What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder.
  • Matt 21:31-32 : 31 Which of the two did the will of his father? They say, The first. Jesus saith unto them, Verily I say unto you, that the publicans and the harlots go into the kingdom of God before you. 32 For John came unto you in the way of righteousness, and ye believed him not; but the publicans and the harlots believed him: and ye, when ye saw it, did not even repent yourselves afterward, that ye might believe him.
  • Heb 11:31 : 31 By faith Rahab the harlot perished not with them that were disobedient, having received the spies with peace.
  • Gen 34:31 : 31 And they said, Should he deal with our sister as with a harlot?
  • Gen 38:15 : 15 When Judah saw her, he thought her to be a harlot; for she had covered her face.
  • Gen 38:24 : 24 And it came to pass about three months after, that it was told Judah, saying, Tamar thy daughter-in-law hath played the harlot; and moreover, behold, she is with child by whoredom. And Judah said, Bring her forth, and let her be burnt.
  • Judg 16:1 : 1 And Samson went to Gaza, and saw there a harlot, and went in unto her.

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  • 1 Cor 6:15
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    15Know 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.

  • 1 Cor 6:17-20
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    17But he that is joined unto the Lord is one spirit.

    18Flee fornication. Every sin that a man doeth is without the body; but he that committeth fornication sinneth against his own body.

    19Or know ye not that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit which is in you, which ye have from God? and ye are not your own;

    20for ye were bought with a price: glorify God therefore in your body.

  • Matt 19:5-6
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    5and said, For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife; and the two shall become one flesh?

    6So that they are no more two, but one flesh. What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder.

  • Mark 10:7-9
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    7For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife;

    8and the two shall become one flesh: so that they are no more two, but one flesh.

    9What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder.

  • Eph 5:28-32
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    28Even so ought husbands also to love their own wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his own wife loveth himself:

    29for no man ever hated his own flesh; but nourisheth and cherisheth it, even as Christ also the church;

    30because we are members of his body.

    31For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife; and the two shall become one flesh.

    32This mystery is great: but I speak in regard of Christ and of the church.

  • 1 Cor 6:13
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    13Meats for the belly, and the belly for meats: but God shall bring to nought both it and them. But the body is not for fornication, but for the Lord; and the Lord for the body:

  • Gen 2:24
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    24Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.

  • 1 Cor 7:4-5
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    4The wife hath not power over her own body, but the husband: and likewise also the husband hath not power over his own body, but the wife.

    5Defraud ye not one the other, except it be by consent for a season, that ye may give yourselves unto prayer, and may be together again, that Satan tempt you not because of your incontinency.

  • Heb 13:4
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    4[ Let] marriage [be] had in honor among all, and [let] the bed [be] undefiled: for fornicators and adulterers God will judge.

  • 1 Cor 7:2
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    2But, because of fornications, let each man have his own wife, and let each woman have her own husband.

  • 1 Cor 6:9
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    9Or know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with men,

  • 2 Cor 6:14-17
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    14Be not unequally yoked with unbelievers: for what fellowship have righteousness and iniquity? or what communion hath light with darkness?

    15And what concord hath Christ with Belial? or what portion hath a believer with an unbeliever?

    16And what agreement hath a temple of God with idols? for we are a temple of the living God; even as God said, I will dwell in them, and walk in them; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people.

    17Wherefore Come ye out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, And touch no unclean thing; And I will receive you,

  • 1 Cor 5:1
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    1It is actually reported that there is fornication among you, and such fornication as is not even among the Gentiles, that one [of you] hath his father's wife.

  • Ezek 16:32
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    32A wife that committeth adultery! that taketh strangers instead of her husband!

  • Rom 7:3-4
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    3So then if, while the husband liveth, she be joined to another man, she shall be called an adulteress: but if the husband die, she is free from the law, so that she is no adulteress, though she be joined to another man.

    4Wherefore, my brethren, ye also were made dead to the law through the body of Christ; that ye should be joined to another, [even] to him who was raised from the dead, that we might bring forth fruit unto God.

  • 1 Cor 3:16-17
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    16Know ye not that ye are a temple of God, and [that] the Spirit of God dwelleth in you?

    17If any man destroyeth the temple of God, him shall God destroy; for the temple of God is holy, and such are ye.

  • Prov 6:26
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    26For on account of a harlot [a man is brought] to a piece of bread; And the adulteress hunteth for the precious life.

  • Prov 6:32
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    32He that committeth adultery with a woman is void of understanding: He doeth it who would destroy his own soul.

  • 1 Thess 4:3-5
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    3For this is the will of God, [even] your sanctification, that ye abstain from fornication;

    4that each one of you know how to possess himself of his own vessel in sanctification and honor,

    5not in the passion of lust, even as the Gentiles who know not God;

  • 1 Cor 7:16
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    16For how knowest thou, O wife, whether thou shalt save thy husband? Or how knowest thou, O husband, whether thou shalt save thy wife?

  • Luke 16:18
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    18Every one that putteth away his wife, and marrieth another, committeth adultery: and he that marrieth one that is put away from a husband committeth adultery.

  • Ezek 16:35
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    35Wherefore, O harlot, hear the word of Jehovah:

  • 1 Cor 12:12
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    12For as the body is one, and hath many members, and all the members of the body, being many, are one body; so also is Christ.

  • 1 Cor 7:27
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    27Art thou bound unto a wife? Seek not to be loosed. Art thou loosed from a wife? Seek not a wife.

  • 2 Cor 11:2
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    2For I am jealous over you with a godly jealousy: for I espoused you to one husband, that I might present you [as] a pure virgin to Christ.

  • Jer 3:1
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    1They say, If a man put away his wife, and she go from him, and become another man's, will he return unto her again? will not that land be greatly polluted? But thou hast played the harlot with many lovers; yet return again to me, saith Jehovah.

  • 1 Cor 5:9
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    9I wrote unto you in my epistle to have no company with fornicators;

  • Rom 12:5
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    5so we, who are many, are one body in Christ, and severally members one of another.

  • Rev 17:2
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    2with whom the kings of the earth committed fornication, and they that dwell in the earth were made drunken with the wine of her fornication.

  • Rom 6:16
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    16Know ye not, that to whom ye present yourselves [as] servants unto obedience, his servants ye are whom ye obey; whether of sin unto death, or of obedience unto righteousness?

  • 1 Cor 12:14
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    14For the body is not one member, but many.

  • 1 Cor 10:16
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    16The cup of blessing which we bless, is it not a communion of the blood of Christ? The bread which we break, is it not a communion of the body of Christ?