1 Corinthians 6:16

Bible in Basic English (1941)

Or 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.

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  • Gen 2:24 : 24 For this cause will a man go away from his father and his mother and be joined to his wife; and they will be one flesh.
  • Eph 5:31 : 31 For 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.
  • Mark 10:8 : 8 And the two will become one flesh; so that they are no longer two, but one flesh.
  • Matt 19:5-6 : 5 For 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? 6 So that they are no longer two, but one flesh. Then let not that which has been joined by God be parted by man.
  • Matt 21:31-32 : 31 Which of the two did his father's pleasure? They say, The first. Jesus said to them, Truly I say to you, that tax-farmers and loose women are going into the kingdom of God before you. 32 For John came to you in the way of righteousness, and you had no faith in him, but the tax-farmers and the loose women had faith in him: and you, when you saw it, did not even have regret for your sins, so as to have faith in him.
  • Heb 11:31 : 31 By faith Rahab, the loose woman, was not put to death with those who had gone against God's orders, because she had taken into her house in peace those sent to see the land.
  • Gen 34:31 : 31 But they said, Were we to let him make use of our sister as a loose woman?
  • Gen 38:15 : 15 When Judah saw her he took her to be a loose woman of the town, because her face was covered.
  • Gen 38:24 : 24 Now about three months after this, word came to Judah that Tamar, his daughter-in-law, had been acting like a loose woman and was with child. And Judah said, Take her out and let her be burned.
  • Judg 16:1 : 1 Now Samson went to Gaza, and there he saw a loose woman and went in to her.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • 15 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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    17 But he who is united to the Lord is one spirit.

    18 Keep 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.

    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;

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

  • Matt 19:5-6
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    5 For 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?

    6 So that they are no longer two, but one flesh. Then let not that which has been joined by God be parted by man.

  • Mark 10:7-9
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    7 For this cause will a man go away from his father and mother, and be joined to his wife;

    8 And the two will become one flesh; so that they are no longer two, but one flesh.

    9 Let not that which has been joined together by God be parted by man.

  • Eph 5:28-32
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    28 Even 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:

    29 For 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;

    30 Because we are parts of his body.

    31 For 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.

    32 This is a great secret: but my words are about Christ and the church.

  • 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:

  • 24 For this cause will a man go away from his father and his mother and be joined to his wife; and they will be one flesh.

  • 1 Cor 7:4-5
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    4 The 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.

    5 Do 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.

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

  • 2 But because of the desires of the flesh, let every man have his wife, and every woman her husband.

  • 9 Have 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,

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

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

    16 And 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.

    17 For 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 It 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.

  • 32 The untrue wife who takes strange lovers in place of her husband!

  • Rom 7:3-4
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    3 So if, while the husband is living, she is joined to another man, she will get the name of one who is untrue to her husband: but if the husband is dead, she is free from the law, so that she is not untrue, even if she takes another man.

    4 In 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.

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    16 Do you not see that you are God's holy house, and that the Spirit of God has his place in you?

    17 If 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.

  • 26 For a loose woman is looking for a cake of bread, but another man's wife goes after one's very life.

  • 32 He who takes another man's wife is without all sense: he who does it is the cause of destruction to his soul.

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    3 For the purpose of God for you is this: that you may be holy, and may keep yourselves from the desires of the flesh;

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

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

  • 16 For how may you be certain, O wife, that you will not be the cause of salvation to your husband? or you, O husband, that you may not do the same for your wife?

  • 18 Everyone who puts away his wife and takes another, is a false husband: and he who is married to a woman whose husband has put her away, is no true husband to her.

  • 35 For this cause, O loose woman, give ear to the voice of the Lord:

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

  • 27 If you are married to a wife, make no attempt to get free from her: if you are free from a wife, do not take a wife.

  • 2 For 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.

  • 1 They say, If a man puts away his wife and she goes from him and becomes another man's, will he go back to her again? will not that land have been made unclean? but though you have been acting like a loose woman with a number of lovers, will you now come back to me? says the Lord.

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

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

  • 2 With whom the kings of the earth made themselves unclean, and those who are on the earth were full of the wine of her evil desires.

  • 16 Are 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.

  • 14 For the body is not one part, but a number of parts.

  • 16 The 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?