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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  • Linguistic Bible Translation from Source Texts

    Or do you not know that he who unites himself with a prostitute is one body with her? For it is said, "The two will become one flesh."

  • King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

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

  • American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

    Or{G2228} know ye{G1492} not{G3756} that{G3754} he that{G3588} is joined{G2853} to a harlot{G4204} is{G2076} one{G1520} body?{G4983} for,{G1063} The twain,{G1417} saith he,{G5346} shall become{G2071} {G1519} one{G1520} flesh.{G4561}

  • King James Version with Strong's Numbers

    What{G2228}? know ye{G1492}{(G5758)} not{G3756} that{G3754} he which is joined{G2853}{(G5746)} to an harlot{G4204} is{G2076}{(G5748)} one{G1520} body{G4983}? for{G1063} two{G1417}, saith he{G5346}{(G5748)}, shall be{G2071}{(G5704)} one{G1519}{G3391} flesh{G4561}.

  • Tyndale Bible (1526/1534)

    Do ye not vnderstonde that he which coupleth him selfe with an harlot is become one body? For two (saith he) shalbe one flesshe.

  • Coverdale Bible (1535)

    Or do ye not knowe, that he which cleueth vnto an harlot, is one body? For they shalbe two ( sayeth he) in one flesshe.

  • Geneva Bible (1560)

    Doe ye not knowe, that he which coupleth himselfe with an harlot, is one body? for two, sayeth he, shalbe one flesh.

  • Bishops' Bible (1568)

    Know ye not, that he whiche coupleth him selfe with an harlot, is one body? For two (sayth he) shalbe one fleshe.

  • 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.

  • Webster's Bible (1833)

    Or don't you know that he who is joined to a prostitute is one body? For, "The two," says he, "will become one flesh."

  • Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

    have ye not known that he who is joined to the harlot is one body? `for they shall be -- saith He -- the two for one flesh.'

  • American Standard Version (1901)

    Or know ye not that he that is joined to a harlot is one body? for, The twain, saith he, shall become one flesh.

  • American Standard Version (1901)

    Or know ye not that he that is joined to a harlot is one body? for, The twain, saith he, shall become one flesh.

  • 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.

  • World English Bible (2000)

    Or don't you know that he who is joined to a prostitute is one body? For, "The two," says he, "will become one flesh."

  • NET Bible® (New English Translation)

    Or do you not know that anyone who is united with a prostitute is one body with her? For it is said,“The two will become one flesh.”

Referenced Verses

  • 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.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • 1 Cor 6:15
    90%

    15 Do 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
    4 verses
    88%

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

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

    19 What? 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?

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

  • Matt 19:5-6
    2 verses
    80%

    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.

  • Mark 10:7-9
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    79%

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

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

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

  • Eph 5:28-32
    5 verses
    79%

    28 So men ought to love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself.

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

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

    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.

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

  • 1 Cor 6:13
    76%

    13 Food 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
    75%

    24 Therefore 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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    74%

    4 The 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.

    5 Do 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%

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

  • 1 Cor 7:2
    73%

    2 Nevertheless, to avoid sexual immorality, let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband.

  • 1 Cor 6:9
    73%

    9 Do 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
    4 verses
    73%

    14 Do not be unequally yoked together with unbelievers. For what fellowship has righteousness with lawlessness? And what communion has light with darkness?

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

    16 And 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.

    17 Therefore 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%

    1 It 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%

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

  • Rom 7:3-4
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    4 Therefore, 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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    16 Do you not know that you are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwells in you?

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

  • Prov 6:26
    71%

    26 For 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
    71%

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

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    3 verses
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    3 For this is the will of God, your sanctification, that you should abstain from fornication:

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

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

  • 1 Cor 7:16
    71%

    16 For 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
    71%

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

  • Ezek 16:35
    70%

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

  • 1 Cor 12:12
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    12 For 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.

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    27 Are you bound to a wife? Do not seek to be loosed. Are you loosed from a wife? Do not seek a wife.

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    69%

    2 For 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%

    1 They 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%

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

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

  • Rev 17:2
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    2 With 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%

    16 Do 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?

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

  • 1 Cor 10:16
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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?