16Do you not 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."


In Context

13 "Food for the stomach and the stomach for food"--but God will destroy them both. The body is not meant for sexual immorality, but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body.

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 himself? Shall I then take the members of Christ and unite them with a prostitute? Never!

16 Do you not 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. All other sins a man commits are outside his body, but he who sins sexually sins against his own body.

1st Corinthians 6:16 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

6:16What? know ye not that he which is joined to an harlot is one body? for two, saith he, shall be one flesh.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

6:16Or know you not, that he who is joined to a harlot, is made one body ? For they shall be, saith he, two in one flesh.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

6:16Or know ye not that he that is joined to a harlot is one body? for, The twain, saith he, shall become one flesh.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

6:16Do ye not know that he that is joined to the harlot is one body? for the two, he says, shall be one flesh.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

6:16Or know ye not that he that is joined to a harlot is one body? for, The twain, saith he, shall become one flesh.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

6:16What? know ye not that he who is joined to a harlot is one body? for two, saith he, shall be one flesh.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

6:16Or don't you know that he who is joined to a prostitute is one body? For, |The two,| says he, |will become one flesh.|

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

6:16have 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.'

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

6:16What? know you not that he which is joined to an harlot is one body? for two, said he, shall be one flesh.