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1 Corinthians 6:16
1 Corinthians 6:16 is verse 16 of 1 Corinthians chapter 6, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.
Berean Standard Bible
Or don’t you know that he who unites himself with a prostitute is one with her in body? For it is said, “The two will become one flesh.”
Genesis 2:24 (see also LXX)
King James Version
What? know ye not that he which is joined to an harlot is one body? for two, saith he, shall be one flesh.
World English Bible
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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1 Corinthians 6:14–18 · Berean Standard Bible
14 By His power God raised the Lord from the dead, and He will raise us also.
15 Do you not know that your bodies are members of Christ? Shall I then take the members of Christ and unite them with a prostitute? Never!
16 Or don’t you know that he who unites himself with a prostitute is one with her in body? For it is said, “The two will become one flesh.”
17 But he who unites himself with the Lord is one with Him in spirit.
18 Flee from sexual immorality. Every other sin a man can commit is outside his body, but he who sins sexually sins against his own body.
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Cross-references
The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.
Genesis 34:31But they replied, “Should he have treated our sister like a prostitute?”
Genesis 38:15When Judah saw her, he thought she was a prostitute because she had covered her face.
Genesis 38:24About three months later, Judah was told, “Your daughter-in-law Tamar has prostituted herself, and now she is pregnant.” “Bring her out!” Judah replied. “Let her be burned to death!”
Judges 16:1One day Samson went to Gaza, where he saw a prostitute and went in to spend the night with her.
Matthew 21:31Which of the two did the will of his father?” “The first,” they answered. Jesus said to them, “Truly I tell you, the tax collectors and prostitutes are entering the kingdom of God before you.
Matthew 21:32For John came to you in a righteous way and you did not believe him, but the tax collectors and prostitutes did. And even after you saw this, you did not repent and believe him.
Hebrews 11:31By faith the prostitute Rahab, because she welcomed the spies in peace, did not perish with those who were disobedient.
Genesis 2:24For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and they will become one flesh.
Matthew 19:5and said, ‘For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh’?
Matthew 19:6So they are no longer two, but one flesh. Therefore what God has joined together, let man not separate.”
Mark 10:8and the two will become one flesh.’ So they are no longer two, but one flesh.
Ephesians 5:31“For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh.”