1 Corinthians 6:15
Do not you know that your bodies are Christ’s members? Am I, then, to take the members that belong to the Christ and make them the members of a prostitute? Heaven forbid!
Twentieth Century New Testament
In The King James Version
In Context
14and, as God has raised the Lord, so he will raise up us also by the exercise of his power.
Cross References
Luke 20:16He will come and put those tenants to death, and will let the vineyard to others.” “Heaven forbid!” they exclaimed when they heard it.
Romans 3:6Otherwise how can God judge the world?
Romans 6:2Heaven forbid! We became dead to sin, and how can we go on living in it?
Romans 7:7What are we to say, then? That Law and sin are the same thing? Heaven forbid! On the contrary, I should not have learned what sin is, had not it been for Law. If the Law did not say ‘Thou shalt not covet,’ I should not know what it is to covet.
Romans 12:5so we, by our union in Christ, many though we are, form but one body, and individually we are related one to another as its parts.
1 Corinthians 6:19Again, do not you know that your body is a shrine of the Holy Spirit that is within you – the Spirit which you have 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 →