1 Corinthians 6:16

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."

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  • Gen 2:24 : 24 Therefore a man will leave his father and his mother, and will join with his wife, and they will be one flesh.
  • Eph 5:31 : 31 "For this cause a man will leave his father and mother, and will be joined to his wife. 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 and said, 'For this cause a man shall leave his father and mother, and shall join to his wife; and the two shall become one flesh?' 6 So that they are no more two, but one flesh. What therefore God has joined together, don't let man tear apart."
  • 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, "Most certainly I tell you that the tax collectors and the prostitutes are entering into the Kingdom of God before you. 32 For John came to you in the way of righteousness, and you didn't believe him, but the tax collectors and the prostitutes believed him. When you saw it, you didn't even repent afterward, that you might believe him.
  • Heb 11:31 : 31 By faith, Rahab the prostitute, didn't perish with those who were disobedient, having received the spies in peace.
  • Gen 34:31 : 31 They said, "Should he deal with our sister as with a prostitute?"
  • Gen 38:15 : 15 When Judah saw her, he thought that she was a prostitute, for she had covered her face.
  • Gen 38:24 : 24 It happened about three months later, that it was told Judah, saying, "Tamar, your daughter-in-law, has played the prostitute; and moreover, behold, she is with child by prostitution." Judah said, "Bring her forth, and let her be burnt."
  • Judg 16:1 : 1 Samson went to Gaza, and saw there a prostitute, and went in to her.

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  • 1 Cor 6:15
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    15 Don't you know that your bodies are members of Christ? Shall I then take the members of Christ, and make them members of a prostitute? May it never be!

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

    18 Flee sexual immorality! "Every sin that a man does is outside the body," but he who commits sexual immorality sins against his own body.

    19 Or don't you know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit which is in you, which you have from God? You are not your own,

    20 for you were 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 a man shall leave his father and mother, and shall join to his wife; and the two shall become one flesh?'

    6 So that they are no more two, but one flesh. What therefore God has joined together, don't let man tear apart."

  • Mark 10:7-9
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    7 For this cause a man will leave his father and mother, and will join to his wife,

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

    9 What therefore God has joined together, let no man separate."

  • Eph 5:28-32
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    28 Even so husbands also ought to love their own wives as their own bodies. He who loves his own wife loves himself.

    29 For no man ever hated his own flesh; but nourishes and cherishes it, even as the Lord also does the assembly;

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

    31 "For this cause a man will leave his father and mother, and will be joined to his wife. The two will become one flesh."

    32 This mystery is great, but I speak concerning Christ and of the assembly.

  • 1 Cor 6:13
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    13 "Foods for the belly, and the belly for foods," but God will bring to nothing both it and them. But the body is not for sexual immorality, but for the Lord; and the Lord for the body.

  • Gen 2:24
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    24 Therefore a man will leave his father and his mother, and will join with his wife, and they will be one flesh.

  • 1 Cor 7:4-5
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    4 The wife doesn't have authority over her own body, but the husband. Likewise also the husband doesn't have authority over his own body, but the wife.

    5 Don't deprive one another, unless it is by consent for a season, that you may give yourselves to fasting and prayer, and may be together again, that Satan doesn't tempt you because of your lack of self-control.

  • Heb 13:4
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    4 Let marriage be held in honor among all, and let the bed be undefiled: but God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterers.

  • 1 Cor 7:2
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    2 But, because of sexual immoralities, let each man have his own wife, and let each woman have her own husband.

  • 1 Cor 6:9
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    9 Or don't you know that the unrighteous will not inherit the Kingdom of God? Don't be deceived. Neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor male prostitutes, nor homosexuals,

  • 2 Cor 6:14-17
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    14 Don't be unequally yoked with unbelievers, for what fellowship have righteousness and iniquity? Or what fellowship has light with darkness?

    15 What agreement has Christ with Belial? Or what portion has a believer with an unbeliever?

    16 What agreement has a temple of God with idols? For you are a temple of the living God. Even as God said, "I will dwell in them, and walk in them; and I will be their God, and they will be my people."

    17 Therefore, "'Come out from among them, and be separate,' says the Lord. 'Touch no unclean thing. I will receive you.

  • 1 Cor 5:1
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    1 It is actually reported that there is sexual immorality among you, and such sexual immorality as is not even named among the Gentiles, that one has his father's wife.

  • Ezek 16:32
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    32 A wife who commits adultery! who takes strangers instead of her husband!

  • Rom 7:3-4
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    3 So then if, while the husband lives, she is joined to another man, she would be called an adulteress. But if the husband dies, she is free from the law, so that she is no adulteress, though she is joined to another man.

    4 Therefore, my brothers, you also were made dead to the law through the body of Christ, that you would be joined to another, to him who was raised from the dead, that we might bring forth fruit to God.

  • 1 Cor 3:16-17
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    16 Don't you know that you are a temple of God, and that God's Spirit lives in you?

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

  • Prov 6:26
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    26 For a prostitute reduces you to a piece of bread. The adulteress hunts for your precious life.

  • Prov 6:32
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    32 He who commits adultery with a woman is void of understanding. He who does it destroys his own soul.

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

    4 that each one of you know how to possess himself of his own vessel in sanctification and honor,

    5 not in the passion of lust, even as the Gentiles who don't know God;

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

  • Luke 16:18
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    18 Everyone who divorces his wife, and marries another, commits adultery. He who marries one who is divorced from a husband commits adultery.

  • Ezek 16:35
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    35 Therefore, prostitute, hear the word of Yahweh:

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

  • 1 Cor 7:27
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    27 Are you bound to a wife? Don't seek to be freed. Are you free from a wife? Don't seek a wife.

  • 2 Cor 11:2
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    2 For I am jealous over you with a godly jealousy. For I married you to one husband, that I might present you as a pure virgin to Christ.

  • Jer 3:1
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    1 "They say, 'If a man puts away his wife, and she goes from him, and become another man's, will he return to her again?' Wouldn't that land be greatly polluted? But you have played the prostitute with many lovers; yet return again to me," says Yahweh.

  • 1 Cor 5:9
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    9 I wrote to you in my letter to have no company with sexual sinners;

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

  • Rev 17:2
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    2 with whom the kings of the earth committed sexual immorality, and those who dwell in the earth were made drunken with the wine of her sexual immorality."

  • Rom 6:16
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    16 Don't you know that to whom you present yourselves as servants to obedience, his servants you are whom you obey; whether of sin to death, or of obedience to righteousness?

  • 1 Cor 12:14
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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, isn't it a sharing of the blood of Christ? The bread which we break, isn't it a sharing of the body of Christ?