1 Corinthians 6:16
Don'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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In Context
17But whoever is joined to the Lord is one with him in spirit!
Cross References
Genesis 2:24This is the reason a man leaves his father and mother and is joined to his wife, and the two become one being.
Genesis 38:15Judah saw her and thought she must be a prostitute because she had veiled her face.
Judges 16:1Samson went to Gaza. There he saw a prostitute and he went to have sex with her that night.
Matthew 21:31Which of the two sons did what his father wanted?” “The first,” they answered. “I tell you the truth: tax collectors and prostitutes are entering the kingdom of God before you,” Jesus told them.
Ephesians 5:31“This is why a man leaves his father and mother, and is joined to his wife, and the two are united in one.”
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 →