KJV 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.
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1 Corinthians 6:16
What? know ye not that he which is joined to an harlot is one body? for two, saith he, shall be one flesh.
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BSB 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.”
WEB World English Bible
Or don’t you know that he who is joined to a prostitute is one body? For, “The two,” says he, “will become one flesh.”
ASV American Standard Version
Or know ye not that he that is joined to a harlot is one body? for, The twain, saith he, shall become one flesh.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
have ye not known that he who is joined to the harlot is one body? ‘for they shall be—saith He—the two for one flesh.’
Surrounding context — 1 Corinthians 6
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 members of Christ, and make [them] the members of an harlot? God forbid.
16 What? know ye not that he which is joined to an harlot is one body? for two, saith he, shall be one flesh.
17 But he that is joined unto the Lord is one spirit.
18 Flee fornication. Every sin that a man doeth is without the body; but he that committeth fornication sinneth against his own body.
19 What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost [which is] in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own?
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These Hebrew/Greek tokens are linked by Strong's number. Click one for its lexicon definition and other occurrences.
ἢG2228 · ēorοὐκG3756 · ounoοἴδατεG6063 · oidato knowὅτιG3754 · hotithat/since: thatὁG3588 · hothe/this/whoκολλώμενοςG2853 · kollaōto joinτῇG3588 · hothe/this/whoπόρνῃG4204 · pornēprostituteἓνG1520 · ehisoneσῶμάG4983 · sōmabodyἐστιν;G1510 · eimito beἔσονταιG1510 · eimito beγάρG1063 · garforφησινG5346 · phēmito assertοἱG3588 · hothe/this/whoδύοG1417 · duotwoεἰςG1519 · eistowardσάρκαG4561 · sarxfleshμίαν·G1520 · ehisone
Cross-references
Genesis 2:24Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.Ephesians 5:31For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall be joined unto his wife, and they two shall be one flesh.Mark 10:8And they twain shall be one flesh: so then they are no more twain, but one flesh.Matthew 19:5-6And said, For this cause shall a man leave father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife: and they twain shall be one flesh?Matthew 21:31-32Whether of them twain did the will of [his] father? They say unto him, The first. Jesus saith unto them, Verily I say unto you, That the publicans and the harlots go into the kingdom of God before you.Genesis 34:31And they said, Should he deal with our sister as with an harlot?Judges 16:1Then went Samson to Gaza, and saw there an harlot, and went in unto her.Hebrews 11:31By faith the harlot Rahab perished not with them that believed not, when she had received the spies with peace.Genesis 38:24And it came to pass about three months after, that it was told Judah, saying, Tamar thy daughter in law hath played the harlot; and also, behold, she [is] with child by whoredom. And Judah said, Bring her forth, and let her be burnt.Genesis 38:15When Judah saw her, he thought her [to be] an harlot; because she had covered her face.
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