1 Corinthians 6:16
Good News Translation
Or perhaps you don't know that the man who joins his body to a prostitute becomes physically one with her? The scripture says quite plainly, "The two will become one body."

New Revised Standard Version
Do you not know that whoever is united to a prostitute becomes one body with her? For it is said, “The two shall be one flesh.”

Contemporary English Version
Don't you know that a man who does that becomes part of her body? The Scriptures say, "The two of them will be like one person."

New American Bible
[Or] do you not know that anyone who joins himself to a prostitute becomes one body with her? For “the two,” it says, “will become one flesh.”

Douay-Rheims Bible
Or 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.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Or 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.

an harlot.

Genesis 34:31 They answered: Should they abuse our sister as a strumpet?

Genesis 38:15,24 When Juda saw her, he thought she was a harlot: for she had covered her face, lest she should be known. . . .

Judges 16:1 He went also into Gaza, and saw there a woman, a harlot, and went in unto her.

Matthew 21:31,32 Which of the two did the father's will? They say to him: The first. Jesus saith to them: Amen I say to you that the publicans and the harlots shall go into the kingdom of God before you. . . .

Hebrews 11:31 By faith Rahab the harlot perished not with the unbelievers, receiving the spies with peace.

for.

Genesis 2:24 Wherefore a man shall leave father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife: and they shall be two in one flesh.

Matthew 19:5,6 For this cause shall a man leave father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife, and they two shall be in one flesh. . . .

Mark 10:8 And they two shall be in one flesh. Therefore now they are not two, but one flesh.

Ephesians 5:31 For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother: and shall cleave to his wife. And they shall be two in one flesh.

Context
Members of Christ
15Know you 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! 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. 17But he who is joined to the Lord is one spirit.…
Cross References
Genesis 2:24
Wherefore a man shall leave father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife: and they shall be two in one flesh.

Matthew 19:5
For this cause shall a man leave father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife, and they two shall be in one flesh.

Mark 10:8
And they two shall be in one flesh. Therefore now they are not two, but one flesh.

1 Corinthians 6:3
Know you not that we shall judge angels? How much more things of this world?

Ephesians 5:31
For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother: and shall cleave to his wife. And they shall be two in one flesh.

1 Corinthians 6:15
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