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.'


In Context

13 the meats are for the belly, and the belly for the meats. And God both this and these shall make useless; and the body is not for whoredom, but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body;

14 and God both the Lord did raise, and us will raise up through His power.

15 Have ye not known that your bodies are members of Christ? having taken, then, the members of the Christ, shall I make them members of an harlot? let it be not!

16 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.'

17 And he who is joined to the Lord is one spirit;

18 flee the whoredom; every sin — whatever a man may commit — is without the body, and he who is committing whoredom, against his own body doth sin.

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 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 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.