Or don’t you know that he who is joined to a prostitute is one body? For, “The two”, he says, “will become one flesh.”†
THE SURROUNDING PASSAGE
1 Corinthians 6:16 in context
1 Corinthians 6:13–19
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“Foods for the belly, and the belly for foods,” but God will bring to nothing both it and them. But the body is not for sexual immorality, but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body.
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Now God raised up the Lord, and will also raise us up by his power.
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Don’t you know that your bodies are members of Christ? Shall I then take the members of Christ and make them members of a prostitute? May it never be!
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Or don’t you know that he who is joined to a prostitute is one body? For, “The two”, he says, “will become one flesh.”†
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But he who is joined to the Lord is one spirit.
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Flee sexual immorality! “Every sin that a man does is outside the body,” but he who commits sexual immorality sins against his own body.
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Or don’t you know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have from God? You are not your own,
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