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1 Corinthians 6:15

Don't you know your bodies are parts of Christ's body? Should I take the parts of Christ's body and join them to a prostitute? Absolutely not!

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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

14By his power God raised the Lord from the dead, and he will raise us up the same way.

16Don't you realize that anyone who has sex with a prostitute becomes “one body” with her? Remember that Scripture says, “The two will become one body.”

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Cross References

Luke 20:16He will come and kill these farmers and let others have the vineyard.” When they heard the story, they said, “May this never happen!”

Romans 3:6Of course not! How else could God judge the world?

Romans 6:2Of course not! Since we're already dead to sin, how can we continue to live in sin?

Romans 7:7So what do we conclude? That the law is sin? Of course not! I wouldn't have known what sin was unless the law defined it. I wouldn't have realized that wanting to have other people's things for myself was wrong without the law that says, “Don't desire for yourself what belongs to someone else.”

Romans 12:5so we are one body in Christ, even though we are many—and we all belong to one another.

1 Corinthians 6:19Don't you know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit that is within you, that you received from God?

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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