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.
• New International Version (NIV)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!
• 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!

Context of 1 Corinthians 6:15

13Food is for the stomach, and the stomach is for food: but God shall destroy both it and them. Now the body is not for immorality, but for the Lord; and the Lord for the body. 14And God hath both raised up the Lord, and will also raise up us by his own power. 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? By no means. 16What? know ye not that he who is joined to an harlot is one body? for two, saith he, shall be one flesh. 17But he that is joined to the Lord is one 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

• yeεἴδωeidō · to perceive: understandG1492
• notοὐou · noG3756
• thatὅτιhoti · that/since: thatG3754
• yourὑμῶνhumōn · of youG5216
• bodiesσῶμαsōma · bodyG4983
• areἐστίesti · he isG2076
• membersμέλοςmelos · memberG3196
• ChristΧριστόςChristos · ChristG5547
• Iαἴρωairō · to take upG142
• thenοὖνoun · therefore/thenG3767
• makeποιέωpoieō · to do/make: doG4160
• harlotπόρνηpornē · prostituteG4204
• meansμήmē · notG3361
• meansγίνομαιginomai · to beG1096

Cross-references for 1 Corinthians 6:15

• 1 Corinthians 6:19What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, which ye have from God, and ye are not your own?
• 1 Corinthians 11:3But I would have you know, that the head of every man is Christ; and the head of the woman is the man; and the head of Christ is God.
• 1 Corinthians 12:27Now ye are the body of Christ, and members in particular.
• Romans 12:5So we, being many, are one body in Christ, and every one members one of another.
• Ephesians 1:22And put all things under his feet, and gave him to be the head over all things to the church,
• Ephesians 4:12For the perfecting of the saints, for the work of the ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ:
• Ephesians 5:23For the husband is the head of the wife, even as Christ is the head of the church: and he is the saviour of the body.
• Colossians 2:19And not holding the Head, from which all the body by joints and bands having nourishment ministered, and knit together, increaseth with the increase of God.
• Genesis 44:17And he said, Far be it from me that I should do so: the man in whose hand the cup is found, he shall be my servant; and as for you, go in peace to your father.
• Luke 20:16He shall come and destroy these vinedressers, and shall give the vineyard to others. And when they heard it, they said, may that never be.
• Romans 3:3For what if some did not believe? shall their unbelief make the faithfulness of God without effect?
• Romans 6:2By no means. How shall we, that are dead to sin, live any longer in it?
• Romans 7:7What shall we say then? Is the law sin? By no means. Nay, I had not known sin, but by the law: for I had not known lust, except the law had said, Thou shalt not covet.
• Galatians 2:17But if, while we seek to be justified by Christ, we ourselves also are found sinners, is therefore Christ the minister of sin? By no means.
• Galatians 3:21Is the law then against the promises of God? By no means: for if there had been a law given which could have given life, verily righteousness should have been by the law.
• Galatians 6:14But may it never be that I should glory, except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom the world is 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

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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