1 Corinthians 6:16

KJV1611 – Modern English

What? Do you not know that he who is joined to a harlot is one body? For two, says He, shall be one flesh.

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  • Gen 2:24 : 24 Therefore shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife: and they shall be one flesh.
  • Eph 5:31 : 31 For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother, and shall be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh.
  • Mark 10:8 : 8 And the two shall become one flesh: so then they are no longer two, but one flesh.
  • Matt 19:5-6 : 5 And said, For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh? 6 Therefore they are no longer two but one flesh. What therefore God has joined together, let not man separate.
  • Matt 21:31-32 : 31 Which of the two did the will of his father? They said to him, The first. Jesus said to them, Truly I say to you, that tax collectors and harlots go into the kingdom of God before you. 32 For John came to you in the way of righteousness, and you did not believe him; but the tax collectors and harlots believed him, and when you had seen it, you did not afterward repent and believe him.
  • Heb 11:31 : 31 By faith the harlot Rahab did not perish with those who did not believe, when she had received the spies with peace.
  • Gen 34:31 : 31 And they said, Should he treat our sister as a harlot?
  • Gen 38:15 : 15 When Judah saw her, he thought she was a prostitute, because she had covered her face.
  • Gen 38:24 : 24 About three months later, it was told Judah, Tamar your daughter-in-law has played the harlot; moreover, she is pregnant by harlotry. Judah said, Bring her out, and let her be burned.
  • Judg 16:1 : 1 Then Samson went to Gaza and saw a prostitute there, and he went in to her.

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  • 1 Cor 6:15
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    15Do you not know that your bodies are the members of Christ? Shall I then take the members of Christ, and make them the members of a harlot? God forbid.

  • 1 Cor 6:17-20
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    88%

    17But he who is joined unto the Lord is one spirit.

    18Flee fornication. Every sin that a man does is outside the body; but he who commits fornication sins against his own body.

    19What? Do you not know that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit which is in you, which you have from God, and you are not your own?

    20For you 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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    5And said, For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh?

    6Therefore they are no longer two but one flesh. What therefore God has joined together, let not man separate.

  • Mark 10:7-9
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    79%

    7For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother, and cleave to his wife;

    8And the two shall become one flesh: so then they are no longer two, but one flesh.

    9What therefore God has joined together, let not man separate.

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

    29For no one ever hated his own flesh; but nourishes and cherishes it, just as the Lord does the church:

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

    31For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother, and shall be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh.

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

  • 1 Cor 6:13
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    13Food for the stomach, and the stomach for food; 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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    24Therefore shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife: and they shall be one flesh.

  • 1 Cor 7:4-5
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    4The wife does not have authority over her own body, but the husband does; and likewise, the husband does not have authority over his own body, but the wife does.

    5Do not deprive one another, except with consent for a time, to give yourselves to fasting and prayer; and come together again, so that Satan does not tempt you because of your lack of self-control.

  • Heb 13:4
    74%

    4Marriage is honorable among all, and the bed undefiled; but fornicators and adulterers God will judge.

  • 1 Cor 7:2
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    2Nevertheless, to avoid sexual immorality, let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband.

  • 1 Cor 6:9
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    9Do you not know that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor the effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind,

  • 2 Cor 6:14-17
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    14Do not be unequally yoked together with unbelievers. For what fellowship has righteousness with lawlessness? And what communion has light with darkness?

    15And what agreement has Christ with Belial? Or what part has he who believes with an unbeliever?

    16And what agreement has the temple of God with idols? For you are the temple of the living God; as God has said: I will dwell in them and walk among them. I will be their God, and they shall be My people.

    17Therefore come out from among them and be separate, says the Lord. Do not touch what is unclean, and I will receive you.

  • 1 Cor 5:1
    73%

    1It is commonly reported that there is sexual immorality among you, and such immorality as is not even named among the Gentiles, that a man has his father's wife.

  • Ezek 16:32
    72%

    32But as a wife that commits adultery, who takes strangers instead of her husband!

  • Rom 7:3-4
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    3So then if, while her husband lives, she is married to another man, she will be called an adulteress: but if her husband is dead, she is free from that law; so that she is not an adulteress, though she is married to another man.

    4Therefore, my brothers, you also have become dead to the law through the body of Christ; that you may be married to another, even to Him who is raised from the dead, that we should bear fruit to God.

  • 1 Cor 3:16-17
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    16Do you not know that you are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwells in you?

    17If anyone defiles the temple of God, God will destroy him; for the temple of God is holy, which temple you are.

  • Prov 6:26
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    26For by means of a harlot a man is brought to a piece of bread: and the adulteress will hunt for the precious life.

  • Prov 6:32
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    32But whoever commits adultery with a woman lacks understanding: he who does it destroys his own soul.

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

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

    5Not in passionate lust, like the Gentiles who do not know God:

  • 1 Cor 7:16
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    16For how do you know, O wife, whether you will save your husband? Or how do you know, O husband, whether you will save your wife?

  • Luke 16:18
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    18Whoever divorces his wife and marries another commits adultery; and whoever marries her who is divorced from her husband commits adultery.

  • Ezek 16:35
    70%

    35Therefore, O harlot, hear the word of the LORD;

  • 1 Cor 12:12
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    12For as the body is one and has many members, and all the members of that one body, being many, are one body, so also is Christ.

  • 1 Cor 7:27
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    27Are you bound to a wife? Do not seek to be loosed. Are you loosed from a wife? Do not seek a wife.

  • 2 Cor 11:2
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    2For I am jealous for you with godly jealousy: for I have betrothed you to one husband, that I may present you as a pure virgin to Christ.

  • Jer 3:1
    69%

    1They say, If a man divorces his wife, and she leaves him and becomes another man's wife, shall he return to her again? Would not that land be greatly defiled? But you have played the harlot with many lovers; yet return again to me, says the LORD.

  • 1 Cor 5:9
    69%

    9I wrote to you in a letter not to associate with sexually immoral people.

  • Rom 12:5
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    5So we, being many, are one body in Christ, and individually members of one another.

  • Rev 17:2
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    2With whom the kings of the earth have committed fornication, and the inhabitants of the earth were made drunk with the wine of her fornication.

  • Rom 6:16
    69%

    16Do you not know that to whom you yield yourselves as servants to obey, you are the servants of the one whom you obey, whether of sin leading to death, or of obedience leading to righteousness?

  • 1 Cor 12:14
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    14For the body is not one member, but many.

  • 1 Cor 10:16
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    16The 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?