1 Corinthians 6:15

Know ye not that your bodies are body-parts of Christ? Therefore, having taken the body-parts of the Christ, should I make them body-parts of a harlot? May it not happen!

A Conservative Version

In The King James Version

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.

In Context

14And God both raised up the Lord and will raise us up through his power.

16Or know ye not that he who is joined to a harlot is one body? For, The two, he says, will be in one flesh.

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Cross References

Luke 20:16He will come and destroy these farmers, and will give the vineyard to others. And having heard it, they said, May it not happen!

Romans 3:6May it not happen! Otherwise how will God judge the world?

Romans 6:2May it not happen! How will we who died to sin, still live in it?

Romans 7:7What will we say then? The law is sin? May it not happen! Yet I did not know sin except through law. For likewise I would not have known lust, if the law did not say, Thou shall not covet.

Romans 12:5so we, the many, are one body in Christ, and each one body-parts of each other.

1 Corinthians 6:19Or know ye not that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit in you, which ye have from God? And ye are not your own,

Matthew Henry on 1 Corinthians 6:13-20

Against Fornication. ( a. d. 57.) 12 All things are lawful unto me, but all things are not expedient: all things are lawful for me, but I will not be brought under the power of any. 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. 14 And God hath both raised up the Lord, and will also raise up us by his own power. 15 Know ye not that your bodies are the members of Christ? shall I then take the… Read the whole commentary →

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