1 Corinthians 6:17

while a man who is united with the Lord is one with him in spirit?

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In The King James Version

But he that is joined unto the Lord is one spirit.

In Context

16Or don’t you know that a man who unites himself with a prostitute is one with her in body (for ‘the two,’ it is said, ‘will become one’);

18Shun all immorality. Every other sin that people commit is something outside the body; but an immoral person sins against their own body.

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Cross References

John 3:6All that owes its birth to human nature is human, and all that owes its birth to the Spirit is spiritual.

1 Corinthians 12:13for it was by one Spirit that we were all baptized to form one body, whether Jews or Greeks, slaves or free, and were all imbued with one Spirit.

Ephesians 4:3and striving to maintain in the bond of peace the unity given by the Spirit.

Philippians 2:5Let the spirit of Christ Jesus be yours also.

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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