1 Corinthians 6:15 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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¹⁵Know 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.

1 Corinthians 6:15 —

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Cross-References

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Ephesians 5:30
For we are members of his body, of his flesh, and of his bones.
Romans 12:5
So we, being many, are one body in Christ, and every one members one of another.
1 Corinthians 12:27
Now ye are the body of Christ, and members in particular.
Ephesians 4:15-16
But speaking the truth in love, may grow up into him in all things, which is the head, even Christ: …
Colossians 2:19
And 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.

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Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 12-20)

The 1 Cor. 6:12, 13 seem to relate to that early dispute among Christians about the distinction of meats, and yet to be prefatory to the caution that follows against fornication. The connection seems plain enough if we attend to the famous determination of the apostles, Acts 15:19-29, where the prohibition of certain foods was joined with that of fornication. Now some among the Corinthians seem to…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 15)

15. 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…