1 Corinthians 6:16

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.'

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Referenced Verses

  • Gen 2:24 : 24 therefore doth a man leave his father and his mother, and hath cleaved unto his wife, and they have become one flesh.
  • Eph 5:31 : 31 `for this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall be joined to his wife, and they shall be -- the two -- for one flesh;'
  • Mark 10:8 : 8 and they shall be -- the two -- for one flesh; so that they are no more two, but one flesh;
  • Matt 19:5-6 : 5 and said, For this cause shall a man leave father and mother, and cleave to his wife, and they shall be -- the two -- for one flesh? 6 so that they are no more two, but one flesh; what therefore God did join together, let no man put asunder.'
  • Matt 21:31-32 : 31 which of the two did the will of the father?' They say to him, `The first.' Jesus saith to them, `Verily I say to you, that the tax-gatherers and the harlots do go before you into the reign of God, 32 for John came unto you in the way of righteousness, and ye did not believe him, and the tax-gatherers and the harlots did believe him, and ye, having seen, repented not at last -- to believe him.
  • Heb 11:31 : 31 by faith Rahab the harlot did not perish with those who disbelieved, having received the spies with peace.
  • Gen 34:31 : 31 And they say, `As a harlot doth he make our sister?'
  • Gen 38:15 : 15 And Judah seeth her, and reckoneth her for a harlot, for she hath covered her face,
  • Gen 38:24 : 24 And it cometh to pass about three months `after', that it is declared to Judah, saying, `Tamar thy daughter-in-law hath committed fornication; and also, lo, she hath conceived by fornication:' and Judah saith, `Bring her out -- and she is burnt.'
  • Judg 16:1 : 1 And Samson goeth to Gaza, and seeth there a woman, a harlot, and goeth in unto her;

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • 1 Cor 6:15
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    15Have ye not known that your bodies are members of Christ? having taken, then, the members of the Christ, shall I make `them' members of an harlot? let it be not!

  • 1 Cor 6:17-20
    4 verses
    88%

    17And he who is joined to the Lord is one spirit;

    18flee the whoredom; every sin -- whatever a man may commit -- is without the body, and he who is committing whoredom, against his own body doth sin.

    19Have ye not known that your body is a sanctuary of the Holy Spirit in you, which ye have from God? and ye are not your own,

    20for ye were bought with a price; glorify, then, God in your body and in your spirit, which are God's.

  • Matt 19:5-6
    2 verses
    80%

    5and said, For this cause shall a man leave father and mother, and cleave to his wife, and they shall be -- the two -- for one flesh?

    6so that they are no more two, but one flesh; what therefore God did join together, let no man put asunder.'

  • Mark 10:7-9
    3 verses
    79%

    7on this account shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall cleave unto his wife,

    8and they shall be -- the two -- for one flesh; so that they are no more two, but one flesh;

    9what therefore God did join together, let not man put asunder.'

  • Eph 5:28-32
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    79%

    28so ought the husbands to love their own wives as their own bodies: he who is loving his own wife -- himself he doth love;

    29for no one ever his own flesh did hate, but doth nourish and cherish it, as also the Lord -- the assembly,

    30because members we are 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 to his wife, and they shall be -- the two -- for one flesh;'

    32this secret is great, and I speak in regard to Christ and to the assembly;

  • 1 Cor 6:13
    76%

    13the meats `are' for the belly, and the belly for the meats. And God both this and these shall make useless; and the body `is' not for whoredom, but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body;

  • Gen 2:24
    75%

    24therefore doth a man leave his father and his mother, and hath cleaved unto his wife, and they have become one flesh.

  • 1 Cor 7:4-5
    2 verses
    74%

    4the wife over her own body hath not authority, but the husband; and, in like manner also, the husband over his own body hath not authority, but the wife.

    5Defraud not one another, except by consent for a time, that ye may be free for fasting and prayer, and again may come together, that the Adversary may not tempt you because of your incontinence;

  • Heb 13:4
    74%

    4honourable `is' the marriage in all, and the bed undefiled, and whoremongers and adulterers God shall judge.

  • 1 Cor 7:2
    73%

    2and because of the whoredom let each man have his own wife, and let each woman have her proper husband;

  • 1 Cor 6:9
    73%

    9have ye not known that the unrighteous the reign of God shall not inherit? be not led astray; neither whoremongers, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor sodomites,

  • 2 Cor 6:14-17
    4 verses
    73%

    14Become not yoked with others -- unbelievers, for what partaking `is there' to righteousness and lawlessness?

    15and what fellowship to light with darkness? and what concord to Christ with Belial? or what part to a believer with an unbeliever?

    16and what agreement to the sanctuary of God with idols? for ye are a sanctuary of the living God, according as God said -- `I will dwell in them, and will walk among `them', and I will be their God, and they shall be My people,

    17wherefore, come ye forth out of the midst of them, and be separated, saith the Lord, and an unclean thing do not touch, and I -- I will receive you,

  • 1 Cor 5:1
    73%

    1Whoredom is actually heard of among you, and such whoredom as is not even named among the nations -- as that one hath the wife of the father! --

  • Ezek 16:32
    72%

    32The wife who committeth adultery -- Under her husband -- doth receive strangers.

  • Rom 7:3-4
    2 verses
    72%

    3so, then, the husband being alive, an adulteress she shall be called if she may become another man's; and if the husband may die, she is free from the law, so as not to be an adulteress, having become another man's.

    4So that, my brethren, ye also were made dead to the law through the body of the Christ, for your becoming another's, who out of the dead was raised up, that we might bear fruit to God;

  • 1 Cor 3:16-17
    2 verses
    72%

    16have ye not known that ye are a sanctuary of God, and the Spirit of God doth dwell in you?

    17if any one the sanctuary of God doth waste, him shall God waste; for the sanctuary of God is holy, the which ye are.

  • Prov 6:26
    71%

    26For a harlot consumeth unto a cake of bread, And an adulteress the precious soul hunteth.

  • Prov 6:32
    71%

    32He who committeth adultery `with' a woman lacketh heart, He is destroying his soul who doth it.

  • 1 Thess 4:3-5
    3 verses
    71%

    3for this is the will of God -- your sanctification; that ye abstain from the whoredom,

    4that each of you know his own vessel to possess in sanctification and honour,

    5not in the affection of desire, as also the nations that were not knowing God,

  • 1 Cor 7:16
    71%

    16for what, hast thou known, O wife, whether the husband thou shalt save? or what, hast thou known, O husband, whether the wife thou shalt save?

  • Luke 16:18
    71%

    18`Every one who is sending away his wife, and marrying another, doth commit adultery; and every one who is marrying her sent away from a husband doth commit adultery.

  • Ezek 16:35
    70%

    35Therefore, O whore, hear a word of Jehovah,

  • 1 Cor 12:12
    70%

    12For, even as the body is one, and hath many members, and all the members of the one body, being many, are one body, so also `is' the Christ,

  • 1 Cor 7:27
    69%

    27Hast thou been bound to a wife? seek not to be loosed; hast thou been loosed from a wife? seek not a wife.

  • 2 Cor 11:2
    69%

    2for I am zealous for you with zeal of God, for I did betroth you to one husband, a pure virgin, to present to Christ,

  • Jer 3:1
    69%

    1Saying, `Lo, one sendeth away his wife, And she hath gone from him, And she hath been to another man, Doth he turn back unto her again? Greatly defiled is not that land? And thou hast committed whoredom with many lovers, And turn again to Me, an affirmation of Jehovah.

  • 1 Cor 5:9
    69%

    9I did write to you in the epistle, not to keep company with whoremongers --

  • Rom 12:5
    69%

    5so we, the many, one body are in Christ, and members each one of one another.

  • Rev 17:2
    69%

    2with whom the kings of the earth did commit whoredom; and made drunk from the wine of her whoredom were those inhabiting the earth;'

  • Rom 6:16
    69%

    16have ye not known that to whom ye present yourselves servants for obedience, servants ye are to him to whom ye obey, whether of sin to death, or of obedience to righteousness?

  • 1 Cor 12:14
    69%

    14for also the body is not one member, but many;

  • 1 Cor 10:16
    69%

    16The cup of the blessing that we bless -- is it not the fellowship of the blood of the Christ? the bread that we break -- is it not the fellowship of the body of the Christ?