1 Corinthians 6:15

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

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.

📖 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, being many, are one body in Christ, and every one members one of another.
• 1 Cor 12:27 : 27 Now ye are the body of Christ, and members in particular.
• Eph 5:30 : 30 For we are members of his body, of his flesh, and of his bones.
• Luke 20:16 : 16 He shall come and destroy these husbandmen, and shall give the vineyard to others. And when they heard it, they said, God forbid.
• Eph 4:12 : 12 For the perfecting of the saints, for the work of the ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ:
• Eph 4:15-16 : 15 But speaking the truth in love, may grow up into him in all things, which is the head, even Christ: 16 From whom the whole body fitly joined together and compacted by that which every joint supplieth, according to the effectual working in the measure of every part, maketh increase of the body unto the edifying of itself in love.
• Eph 5:23 : 23 For the husband is the head of the wife, even as Christ is the head of the church: and he is the saviour of the body.
• Rom 3:3-4 : 3 For what if some did not believe? shall their unbelief make the faith of God without effect? 4 God forbid: yea, let God be true, but every man a liar; as it is written, That thou mightest be justified in thy sayings, and mightest overcome when thou art judged.
• Gal 2:17 : 17 But if, while we seek to be justified by Christ, we ourselves also are found sinners, is therefore Christ the 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 have given life, verily righteousness should have been by the law.
• Gal 6:14 : 14 But God forbid that I should glory, save in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom the world is crucified unto me, and I unto the world.
• Eph 1:22-23 : 22 And hath put all things under his feet, and gave him to be the 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 destroy both it and them. Now the body is not for fornication, but for the Lord; and the Lord for the body.
• 1 Cor 6:19 : 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?
• 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 void the law through faith? God forbid: yea, we establish the law.
• Rom 6:2 : 2 God forbid. How shall we, that are dead to sin, live any longer therein?
• Rom 6:15 : 15 What then? shall we sin, because we are not under the law, but under grace? God forbid.
• Rom 7:7 : 7 What shall we say then? Is the law sin? God forbid. Nay, I had not known sin, but by the law: for I had not known lust, except the law had said, Thou shalt not covet.
• Rom 7:13 : 13 Was then that which is good made death unto me? God forbid. But sin, that it might appear sin, working death in me by that which is good; that sin by the commandment might become exceeding sinful.
• Col 2:19 : 19 And not holding the Head, from which all the body by joints and bands having nourishment ministered, and knit together, increaseth with the increase of God.
• Gen 44:17 : 17 And he said, God forbid that I should do so: but the man in whose hand the cup is found, he shall be my servant; and as for you, get you up in peace unto your father.
• Rom 3:6 : 6 God forbid: for then how shall God judge the world?