1 Corinthians 6:15

Bible in Basic English (1941)

Do you not see that your bodies are part of the body of Christ? how then may I take what is a part of the body of Christ and make it a part of the body of a loose woman? such a thing may not be.

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  • Rom 12:5 : 5 So we, though we are a number of persons, are one body in Christ, and are dependent on one another;
  • 1 Cor 12:27 : 27 Now you are the body of Christ, and every one of you the separate parts of it.
  • Eph 5:30 : 30 Because we are parts of his body.
  • Luke 20:16 : 16 He will come and put them to destruction and give the garden to others. And when he said this, they said, May it not be so.
  • Eph 4:12 : 12 For the training of the saints as servants in the church, for the building up of the body of Christ:
  • Eph 4:15-16 : 15 But saying true words in love, may come to full growth in him, who is the head, even Christ; 16 Through whom all the body, being rightly formed and united together, by the full working of every part, is increased to the building up of itself in love.
  • Eph 5:23 : 23 For the husband is the head of the wife, as Christ is the head of the church, being himself the saviour of the body.
  • Rom 3:3-4 : 3 And if some have no faith, will that make the faith of God without effect? 4 In no way: but let God be true, though every man is seen to be untrue; as it is said in the Writings, That your words may be seen to be true, and you may be seen to be right when you are judged.
  • Gal 2:17 : 17 But if, while we were desiring to get righteousness through Christ, we ourselves were seen to be sinners, is Christ a servant of sin? In no way!
  • Gal 3:21 : 21 Is the law then against the words of God? in no way; because if there had been a law which was able to give life, truly righteousness would have been by the law.
  • Gal 6:14 : 14 But far be it from me to have glory in anything, but only in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, through which this world has come to an end on the cross for me, and I for it.
  • Eph 1:22-23 : 22 And he has put all things under his feet, and has made him to be head over all things to the church, 23 Which is his body, the full measure of him in whom all things are made complete.
  • 1 Cor 6:13 : 13 Food is for the stomach and the stomach for food, and God will put an end to them together. But the body is not for the desires of the flesh, but for the Lord; and the Lord for the body:
  • 1 Cor 6:19 : 19 Or are you not conscious that your body is a house for the Holy Spirit which is in you, and which has been given to you by God? and you are not the owners of yourselves;
  • 1 Cor 11:3 : 3 But it is important for you to keep this fact in mind, 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, through faith make the law of no effect? in no way: but we make it clear that the law is important.
  • Rom 6:2 : 2 In no way. How may we, who are dead to sin, be living in it any longer?
  • Rom 6:15 : 15 What then? are we to go on in sin because we are not under law but under grace? Let it not be so.
  • Rom 7:7 : 7 What then is to be said? is the law sin? in no way. But I would not have had knowledge of sin but for the law: for I would not have been conscious of desire if the law had not said, You may not have a desire for what is another's.
  • Rom 7:13 : 13 Was then that which is good, death to me? In no way. But the purpose was that sin might be seen to be sin by working death to me through that which is good; so that through the orders of the law sin might seem much more evil.
  • Col 2:19 : 19 And not joined to the Head, from whom all the body, being given strength and kept together through its joins and bands, has its growth with the increase of God.
  • Gen 44:17 : 17 Then he said, Far be it from me to do so: but the man who had my cup will be my servant; and you may go back to your father in peace.
  • Rom 3:6 : 6 In no way: because if it is so, how is God able to be the judge of all the world?

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  • 1 Cor 6:16-20
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    16Or do you not see that he who is joined to a loose woman is one body with her? for God has said, The two of them will become one flesh.

    17But he who is united to the Lord is one spirit.

    18Keep away from the desires of the flesh. Every sin which a man does is outside of the body; but he who goes after the desires of the flesh does evil to his body.

    19Or are you not conscious that your body is a house for the Holy Spirit which is in you, and which has been given to you by God? and you are not the owners of yourselves;

    20For a payment has been made for you: let God be honoured in your body.

  • 1 Cor 6:13-14
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    13Food is for the stomach and the stomach for food, and God will put an end to them together. But the body is not for the desires of the flesh, but for the Lord; and the Lord for the body:

    14And God who made the Lord Jesus come back from the dead will do the same for us by his power.

  • Eph 5:28-31
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    28Even so it is right for husbands to have love for their wives as for their bodies. He who has love for his wife has love for himself:

    29For no man ever had hate for his flesh; but he gives it food and takes care of it, even as Christ does for the church;

    30Because we are parts of his body.

    31For this cause will a man go away from his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two will become one flesh.

  • 1 Cor 3:16-17
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    16Do you not see that you are God's holy house, and that the Spirit of God has his place in you?

    17If anyone makes the house of God unclean, God will put an end to him; for the house of God is holy, and you are his house.

  • 1 Cor 6:9
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    9Have you not knowledge that evil-doers will have no part in the kingdom of God? Have no false ideas about this: no one who goes after the desires of the flesh, or gives worship to images, or is untrue when married, or is less than a man, or makes a wrong use of men,

  • 1 Cor 12:14-15
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    14For the body is not one part, but a number of parts.

    15If the foot says, Because I am not the hand, I am not a part of the body; it is no less a part of the body.

  • 1 Cor 12:12
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    12For as the body is one, and has a number of parts, and all the parts make one body, so is Christ.

  • 1 Cor 12:27
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    27Now you are the body of Christ, and every one of you the separate parts of it.

  • Rom 7:4
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    4In the same way, my brothers, you were made dead to the law through the body of Christ, so that you might be joined to another, even to him who came again from the dead, so that we might give fruit to God.

  • Rom 6:12-13
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    12For this cause do not let sin be ruling in your body which is under the power of death, so that you give way to its desires;

    13And do not give your bodies to sin as the instruments of wrongdoing, but give yourselves to God, as those who are living from the dead, and your bodies as instruments of righteousness to God.

  • 1 Cor 7:4-5
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    4The wife has not power over her body, but the husband; and in the same way the husband has not power over his body, but the wife.

    5Do not keep back from one another what is right, but only for a short time, and by agreement, so that you may give yourselves to prayer, and come together again; so that Satan may not get the better of you through your loss of self-control.

  • Rom 6:15-16
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    15What then? are we to go on in sin because we are not under law but under grace? Let it not be so.

    16Are you not conscious that you are the servants of him to whom you give yourselves to do his desire? if to sin, the end being death, or if to do the desire of God, the end being righteousness.

  • 2 Cor 6:14-17
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    14Do not keep company with those who have not faith: for what is there in common between righteousness and evil, or between light and dark?

    15And what agreement is there between Christ and the Evil One? or what part has one who has faith with one who has not?

    16And what agreement has the house of God with images? for we are a house of the living God; even as God has said, I will be living among them, and walking with them; and I will be their God, and they will be my people.

    17For which cause, Come out from among them, and be separate, says the Lord, and let no unclean thing come near you; and I will take you for myself,

  • 1 Thess 4:3-5
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    3For the purpose of God for you is this: that you may be holy, and may keep yourselves from the desires of the flesh;

    4So that every one of you may keep his body holy and in honour;

    5Not in the passion of evil desires, like the Gentiles, who have no knowledge of God;

  • Rom 6:19
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    19I am using words in the way of men, because your flesh is feeble: as you gave your bodies as servants to what is unclean, and to evil to do evil, so now give them as servants to righteousness to do what is holy.

  • Rom 6:2
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    2In no way. How may we, who are dead to sin, be living in it any longer?

  • Rom 12:4-5
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    4For, as we have a number of parts in one body, but all the parts have not the same use,

    5So we, though we are a number of persons, are one body in Christ, and are dependent on one another;

  • 1 Cor 5:9-10
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    9In my letter I said to you that you were not to keep company with those who go after the desires of the flesh;

    10But I had not in mind the sinners who are outside the church, or those who have a desire for and take the property of others, or those who give worship to images; for it is not possible to keep away from such people without going out of the world completely:

  • 1 Cor 5:1
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    1It is said, in fact, that there is among you a sin of the flesh, such as is not seen even among the Gentiles, that one of you has his father's wife.

  • 1 Cor 6:11
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    11And such were some of you; but you have been washed, you have been made holy, you have been given righteousness in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and in the Spirit of our God.

  • 1 Cor 12:19-20
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    19And if they were all one part, where would the body be?

    20But now they are all different parts, but one body.

  • 2 Cor 11:2
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    2For I have a very great care for you: because you have been married by me to one husband, and it is my desire to give you completely holy to Christ.

  • Col 3:5
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    5Then put to death your bodies which are of the earth; wrong use of the flesh, unclean things, passion, evil desires and envy, which is the worship of strange gods;

  • 1 Cor 7:35
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    35Now I say this for your profit; not to make things hard for you, but because of what is right, and so that you may be able to give all your attention to the things of the Lord.

  • 1 Cor 10:16
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    16The cup of blessing which we take, does it not give us a part in the blood of Christ? and is not the broken bread a taking part in the body of Christ?

  • Heb 13:4
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    4Let married life be honoured among all of you and not made unclean; for men untrue in married life will be judged by God.

  • Rom 1:24
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    24For this reason God gave them up to the evil desires of their hearts, working shame in their bodies with one another:

  • 1 Cor 12:24
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    24But those parts of the body which are beautiful have no need of such care: and so the body has been joined together by God in such a way as to give more honour to those parts which had need of it;

  • 1 Cor 5:6
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    6This pride of yours is not good. Do you not see that a little leaven makes a change in all the mass?