16What? know ye not that he which is joined to an harlot is one body? for two, saith he, shall be one flesh.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.
For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall be joined unto his wife, and they two shall be one flesh.
And they twain shall be one flesh: so then they are no more twain, but one flesh.
And said, For this cause shall a man leave father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife: and they twain shall be one flesh? …
Whether of them twain did the will of his father? They say unto him, The first. Jesus saith unto them, Verily I say unto you, That the publicans and the harlots go into the kingdom of God before you. …
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 t…
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