1 Corinthians 6:15

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

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.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Οὐκ οἴδατε ὅτι τὰ σώματα ὑμῶν μέλη Χριστοῦ ἐστιν; ἄρας οὖν τὰ μέλη τοῦ Χριστοῦ, ποιήσω πόρνης μέλη; Μὴ γένοιτο.

Transliteration

Not oidate that the sōmata of you melē Christou estin? Having aras therefore the melē of the Christou, shall I poiēsō of pornēs melē? Mē genoito.

Grammar Details

• *Ouk oidate*: negative + perfect indicative, 2nd plural - you do not know
• *hoti*: conjunction - that
• *ta sōmata*: nominative, neuter, plural - the bodies
• *hymōn*: genitive, 2nd plural, personal pronoun - of you
• *melē*: nominative, neuter, plural - members/parts
• *Christou*: genitive, masculine, singular - of Christ
• *estin*: present indicative, 3rd singular - is/are
• *aras*: aorist participle, active, nominative, masculine, singular - having taken
• *oun*: inferential conjunction - therefore
• *ta melē*: accusative, neuter, plural - the members
• *tou Christou*: genitive, masculine, singular - of the Christ
• *poiēsō*: future indicative, active, 1st singular - shall I make
• *pornēs*: genitive, feminine, singular - of a prostitute
• *Mē genoito*: negative + aorist optative, middle, 3rd singular - may it not be/never

Word Meanings

• *melē*: members/parts/limbs
• *aras*: taking/removing/lifting
• *poiēsō*: shall I make/shall I create
• *pornēs*: prostitute/harlot
• *Mē genoito*: may it never be/God forbid/certainly not

Referenced Verses

• Rom 12:5 : 5 so we, who are many, are one body in Christ, and {G2596} severally members one of another.
• 1 Cor 12:27 : 27 Now ye are the body of Christ, and {G1537} severally members thereof.
• Eph 5:30 : 30 because we are members of his body.
• Luke 20:16 : 16 He will come and destroy these husbandmen, and will give the vineyard unto others. And when they heard it, they said, God forbid.
• Eph 4:12 : 12 for the perfecting of the saints, unto the work of ministering, unto the building up of the body of Christ:
• Eph 4:15-16 : 15 but speaking truth in love, we may grow up in all things into him, who is the head, [even] Christ; 16 from whom all the body fitly framed and knit together through that which every joint supplieth, according to the working in [due] measure of each several part, maketh the increase of the body unto the building up of itself in love.
• Eph 5:23 : 23 For the husband is the head of the wife, as Christ also is the head of the church, [being] himself the saviour of the body.
• Rom 3:3-4 : 3 For what if some were without faith? shall their want of faith make of none effect the faithfulness of God? 4 God forbid: yea, let God be found true, but every man a liar; as it is written, That thou mightest be justified in thy words, And mightest prevail when thou comest into judgment.
• Gal 2:17 : 17 But if, while we sought to be justified in Christ, we ourselves also were found sinners, is {G687} Christ a minister of sin? God forbid.
• Gal 3:21 : 21 Is the law then against the promises of God? God forbid: for if there had been a law given which could make alive, verily {G302} righteousness would have been of the law.
• Gal 6:14 : 14 But far be it from me to glory, save in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, through which the world hath been crucified unto me, and I unto the world.
• Eph 1:22-23 : 22 and he put all things in subjection under his feet, and gave him to be head over all things to the church, 23 which is his body, the fulness of him that filleth all in all.
• 1 Cor 6:13 : 13 Meats 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:
• 1 Cor 6:19 : 19 Or 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;
• 1 Cor 11:3 : 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.
• Rom 3:31 : 31 Do we then make the law of none effect through faith? God forbid: nay, we establish the law.
• Rom 6:2 : 2 God forbid. We who died to sin, how shall we any longer live therein?
• Rom 6:15 : 15 What then? shall we sin, because we are not under law, but under grace? God forbid.
• Rom 7:7 : 7 What shall we say then? Is the law sin? God forbid. Howbeit, I had not known sin, except through the law: for I had not known coveting, except the law had said, Thou shalt not covet:
• Rom 7:13 : 13 Did then that which is good become death unto me? God forbid. But sin, that it might be shown to be sin, by working death to me through that which is good; — that through the commandment sin might become {G2596} exceeding sinful.
• Col 2:19 : 19 and not holding fast the Head, from whom all the body, being supplied and knit together through the joints and bands, increasing with the increase of God.
• Gen 44:17 : 17 And he said, Far be it from me that I should do so: the man in whose hand the cup is found, he shall be my bondman; but as for you, get you up in peace unto your father.
• Rom 3:6 : 6 God forbid: {G1096} for then how shall God judge the world?