1 Corinthians 6:16

Authorized King James Version (1611)

What? know ye not that he which is joined to an harlot is one body? for two, saith he, shall be one flesh.

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  • 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 be joined unto his wife, and they two shall be one flesh.
  • Mark 10:8 : 8 ‹And they twain shall be one flesh: so then they are no more twain, but one flesh.›
  • Matt 19:5-6 : 5 ‹And said, For this cause shall a man leave father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife: and they twain shall be one flesh?› 6 ‹Wherefore they are no more twain, but one flesh. What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder.›
  • Matt 21:31-32 : 31 ‹Whether of them twain did the will of› [his] ‹father?› They say unto him, 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 had seen› [it], ‹repented not afterward, that ye might believe him.›
  • Heb 11:31 : 31 By faith the harlot Rahab perished not with them that believed not, when she had received the spies with peace.
  • Gen 34:31 : 31 And they said, Should he deal with our sister as with an harlot?
  • Gen 38:15 : 15 When Judah saw her, he thought her [to be] an harlot; because 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 also, behold, she [is] with child by whoredom. And Judah said, Bring her forth, and let her be burnt.
  • Judg 16:1 : 1 ¶ Then went Samson to Gaza, and saw there an harlot, and went in unto her.

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    15 Know ye not that your bodies are the members of Christ? shall I then take the members of Christ, and make [them] the members of an harlot? God forbid.

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

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

    19 What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost [which is] in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own?

    20 For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God's.

  • Matt 19:5-6
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    5 ‹And said, For this cause shall a man leave father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife: and they twain shall be one flesh?›

    6 ‹Wherefore they are no more twain, but one flesh. What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder.›

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

    8 ‹And they twain shall be one flesh: so then they are no more twain, but one flesh.›

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

  • Eph 5:28-32
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    28 So ought men to love their wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his wife loveth himself.

    29 For no man ever yet hated his own flesh; but nourisheth and cherisheth it, even as the Lord the church:

    30 For we are members of his body, of his flesh, and of his bones.

    31 For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall be joined unto his wife, and they two shall be one flesh.

    32 This is a great mystery: but I speak concerning Christ and the church.

  • 1 Cor 6:13
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    13 Meats for the belly, and the belly for meats: but God shall destroy both it and them. Now the body [is] not for fornication, but for the Lord; and the Lord for the body.

  • Gen 2:24
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    24 Therefore 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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    4 The wife hath not power of her own body, but the husband: and likewise also the husband hath not power of his own body, but the wife.

    5 Defraud ye not one the other, except [it be] with consent for a time, that ye may give yourselves to fasting and prayer; and come together again, that Satan tempt you not for your incontinency.

  • Heb 13:4
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    4 Marriage [is] honourable in all, and the bed undefiled: but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge.

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    2 Nevertheless, [to avoid] fornication, let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband.

  • 1 Cor 6:9
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    9 ¶ 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 mankind,

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

    15 And what concord hath Christ with Belial? or what part hath he that believeth with an infidel?

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

    17 Wherefore come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean [thing]; and I will receive you,

  • 1 Cor 5:1
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    1 ¶ It is reported commonly [that there is] fornication among you, and such fornication as is not so much as named among the Gentiles, that one should have his father's wife.

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    32 [But as] a wife that committeth adultery, [which] taketh strangers instead of her husband!

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    3 So then if, while [her] husband liveth, she be married to another man, she shall be called an adulteress: but if her husband be dead, she is free from that law; so that she is no adulteress, though she be married to another man.

    4 Wherefore, my brethren, ye also are become dead to the law by the body of Christ; that ye should be married to another, [even] to him who is raised from the dead, that we should bring forth fruit unto God.

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

    17 If any man defile the temple of God, him shall God destroy; for the temple of God is holy, which [temple] ye are.

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    26 For by means of a whorish woman [a man is brought] to a piece of bread: and the adulteress will hunt for the precious life.

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    32 [But] whoso committeth adultery with a woman lacketh understanding: he [that] doeth it destroyeth his own soul.

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

    4 That every one of you should know how to possess his vessel in sanctification and honour;

    5 Not in the lust of concupiscence, even as the Gentiles which know not God:

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    16 For what knowest thou, O wife, whether thou shalt save [thy] husband? or how knowest thou, O man, whether thou shalt save [thy] wife?

  • Luke 16:18
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    35 ¶ Wherefore, O harlot, hear the word of the LORD:

  • 1 Cor 12:12
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    27 Art 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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    2 For I am jealous over you with godly jealousy: for I have espoused you to one husband, that I may present [you as] a chaste virgin to Christ.

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

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    9 ¶ I wrote unto you in an epistle not to company with fornicators:

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    2 With whom the kings of the earth have committed fornication, and the inhabitants of the earth have been made drunk with the wine of her fornication.

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    16 Know ye not, that to whom ye yield yourselves servants to obey, his servants ye are to whom ye obey; whether of sin unto death, or of obedience unto righteousness?

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    14 For the body is not one member, but many.

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    16 The cup of blessing which we bless, is it not the communion of the blood of Christ? The bread which we break, is it not the communion of the body of Christ?