1 Corinthians 6:15

1 Corinthians 6:15 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)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.
• English Standard Version (ESV)Do you not know that your bodies are members of Christ? Shall I then take the members of Christ and make them members of a prostitute? Never!
• New King James Version (NKJV)Do you not know that your bodies are members of Christ? Shall I then take the members of Christ and make them members of a harlot? Certainly not!
• New Living Translation (NLT)Don’t you realize that your bodies are actually parts of Christ? Should a man take his body, which is part of Christ, and join it to a prostitute? Never!

Context of 1 Corinthians 6:15

13You say, “Food for the stomach and the stomach for food, and God will destroy them both.” The body, however, is not meant for sexual immorality but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body. 14By his power God raised the Lord from the dead, and he will raise us also. 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! 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.” 17But whoever is united with the Lord is one with him in spirit.

1 Corinthians 6:15 word by word

Οὐκ οἴδατε ὅτι τὰ σώματα ὑμῶν μέλη Χριστοῦ ἐστιν; ἄρας οὖν τὰ μέλη τοῦ Χριστοῦ ποιήσω πόρνης μέλη; μὴ γένοιτο.Read the interlinear

Words taken from the KJV.

• Know yeεἴδωeidō · to perceive: understandG1492
• notοὐou · noG3756
• thatὅτιhoti · that/since: thatG3754
• yourσύsu · youG4771
• bodiesὁho hē to · the/this/whoG3588
• bodiesσῶμαsōma · bodyG4983
• areεἰμίeimi · to beG1510
• the membersμέλοςmelos · memberG3196
• of ChristΧριστόςChristos · ChristG5547
• shall Iαἴρωairō · to take upG142
• thenοὖνoun · therefore/thenG3767
• and makeποιέωpoieō · to do/make: doG4160
• of an harlotπόρνηpornē · prostituteG4204
• God forbidμήmē · notG3361
• God forbidγίνομαιginomai · to beG1096

Cross-references for 1 Corinthians 6:15

• 1 Corinthians 6:19Do you not know that your bodies are temples of the Holy Spirit, who is in you, whom you have received from God? You are not your own;
• 1 Corinthians 11:3But I want you to realize that the head of every man is Christ, and the head of the woman is man, and the head of Christ is God.
• 1 Corinthians 12:27Now you are the body of Christ, and each one of you is a part of it.
• Romans 12:5so in Christ we, though many, form one body, and each member belongs to all the others.
• Ephesians 1:22And God placed all things under his feet and appointed him to be head over everything for the church,
• Ephesians 4:12to equip his people for works of service, so that the body of Christ may be built up
• Ephesians 5:23For the husband is the head of the wife as Christ is the head of the church, his body, of which he is the Savior.
• Colossians 2:19They have lost connection with the head, from whom the whole body, supported and held together by its ligaments and sinews, grows as God causes it to grow.
• Genesis 44:17But Joseph said, “Far be it from me to do such a thing! Only the man who was found to have the cup will become my slave. The rest of you, go back to your father in peace.”
• Luke 20:16He will come and kill those tenants and give the vineyard to others.” When the people heard this, they said, “God forbid!”
• Romans 3:3What if some were unfaithful? Will their unfaithfulness nullify God’s faithfulness?
• Romans 6:2By no means! We are those who have died to sin; how can we live in it any longer?
• Romans 7:7What shall we say, then? Is the law sinful? Certainly not! Nevertheless, I would not have known what sin was had it not been for the law. For I would not have known what coveting really was if the law had not said, “You shall not covet.”
• Galatians 2:17“But if, in seeking to be justified in Christ, we Jews find ourselves also among the sinners, doesn’t that mean that Christ promotes sin? Absolutely not!
• Galatians 3:21Is the law, therefore, opposed to the promises of God? Absolutely not! For if a law had been given that could impart life, then righteousness would certainly have come by the law.
• Galatians 6:14May I never boast except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, through which the world has been crucified to me, and I to the world.

Commentaries on 1 Corinthians 6:15

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 15Know ye not that your bodies are the members of Christ? - Because he has taken your nature upon him, and thus, as believers in him, ye are the members of Christ. Shall I then take, etc. - Shall we, who profess to be members of his body, of his flesh, and of his bones, connect ourselves with harlots, and thus dishonor and pollute the bodies which are members of Christ? God forbid! These passages admit of a more literal interpretation. This, if given at…Read the comment
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 15Know ye not … - This is the third argument against licentiousness. It is, that we as Christians are united to Christ (compare the notes at John 15:1 ff); and that it is abominable to take the members of Christ and subject them to pollution and sin. Christ was pure - wholly pure. We are professedly united to him. We are bound therefore to be pure, as he was. Shall that which is a part, as it were, of the pure and holy Saviour, be prostituted to impure and…Read the comment
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 12-20Verses 12-20 Some among the Corinthians seem to have been ready to say, All things are lawful for me. This dangerous conceit St. Paul opposes. There is a liberty wherewith Christ has made us free, in which we must stand fast. But surely a Christian would never put himself into the power of any bodily appetite. The body is for the Lord; is to be an instrument of righteousness to holiness, therefore is never to be made an instrument of sin. It is an honour…Read the comment
• Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 15-17Being a Christian means being spiritually connected to Christ in both life and death (see Romans 6:3–11). Because of this, believers' bodies are parts of Christ (see 1 Corinthians 12:12–28; Romans 12:4–5). This spiritual connection (see John 14:20; 17:21–23) means they should not misuse their bodies by joining with a prostitute.Read the comment
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 1515. Resuming the thought in 1Co 6:13, "the body is for the Lord" (1Co 12:27; Ep 4:12, 15, 16; 5:30). shall I then--such being the case. take--spontaneously alienating them from Christ. For they cannot be at the same time "the members of an harlot," and "of Christ" [Bengel]. It is a fact no less certain than mysterious, that moral and spiritual ruin is caused by such sins; which human wisdom (when untaught by revelation) held to be actions as blameless as…Read the comment

Topics related to 1 Corinthians 6:15

• Adultery
• Assurance
• Body
• Chastity
• Fellowship
• Lasciviousness
• Righteous

In the dictionaries

• Christ
• God
• Christ, Messiah
• god, false god, goddess, idol, idolater, idolatrous, idolatry
• Angel
• Extortioner
• Harlot
• Judgment
• Price
• Resurrection of the dead

Commentaries on 1 Corinthians 6

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
• Tyndale Open Study Notes
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
• Calvin’s Commentaries
• John Wesley’s Notes
• Illustrated New Testament
• Burkitt’s Expository Notes
• Darby Translation Notes
• Family Bible Notes
• Geneva Bible Translation Notes
• Kingcomments
• Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
• Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
• The People’s New Testament
• Robertson’s Word Pictures
• Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
• Original Douay–Rheims Annotations
• Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
• EGW Writings