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.|


In Context

13 |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.

14 Now God raised up the Lord, and will also raise us up by his power.

15 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!

16 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.|

17 But he who is joined to the Lord is one spirit.

18 Flee sexual immorality! |Every sin that a man does is outside the body,| but he who commits sexual immorality sins against his own body.

1 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 New International Version of the Holy Bible

6:16Do 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."

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 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.