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1 Corinthians 6:15

Know ye not, that your bodies are the members of the Messiah? Shall one take a member of the Messiah, and make it the member of a harlot? Far be it.

James Murdock's Translation of the Syriac Peshitta

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 hath raised up our Lord; and he will raise us up, by his power.

16Or know ye not, that whoever joineth himself to a harlot, is one body with her? For it is said, They twain shall be one body.

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Cross References

Luke 20:16He will come, and destroy those cultivators, and will lease the vineyard to others. And when they heard it, they said: This shall not be.

Romans 3:6Far from it. Otherwise how will God judge the world?

Romans 6:2Far be it: for if we are persons that have died to sin, how can we again live in it?

Romans 7:7What shall we say then? Is the law sin?, Far be it. For I had not learned sin, except by means of the law: for I had not known concupiscence, had not the law said, Thou shalt not covet:

Romans 12:5so also we, who are collectively many persons, are one body in Messiah, and are naturally members of each other.

1 Corinthians 6:19Or know ye not, that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit who abideth in you, whom ye have received 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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