1 Corinthians 6:15

Believers' bodies are members of Christ, so to join them to a prostitute is unthinkable. It matters because sexual sin violates our living union with Christ.

Cross-references · 23

• Eph 5:30For we are members of His body.
• Rom 12:5so in Christ we who are many are one body, and each member belongs to one another.
• Eph 4:15–16Instead, speaking the truth in love, we will in all things grow up into Christ Himself, who is the head.
• Col 2:19He has lost connection to the head, from whom the whole body, supported and knit together by its joints and ligaments, grows as God causes it to grow.
• 1 Cor 12:27Now you are the body of Christ, and each of you is a member of it.
• Eph 4:12to equip the saints for works of ministry and to build up the body of Christ,
• 1 Cor 6:19Do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have received from God? You are not your own;
• 1 Cor 11:3But I want you to understand that the head of every man is Christ, and the head of the woman is man, and the head of Christ is God.
• Gal 6:14But as for me, may 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.
• Eph 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.
• Luke 20:16He will come and kill those tenants, and will give the vineyard to others.” And when the people heard this, they said, “May such a thing never happen!”
• Rom 7:13Did that which is good, then, become death to me? Certainly not! But in order that sin might be exposed as sin, it produced death in me through what was good, so that through the commandment sin might become utterly sinful.
• Gal 2:17But if, while we seek to be justified in Christ, we ourselves are found to be sinners, does that make Christ a minister of sin? Certainly not!
• Rom 3:3–4What if some did not have faith? Will their lack of faith nullify God’s faithfulness?
• 1 Cor 6:13“Food for the stomach and the stomach for food,” but God will destroy them both. The body is not intended for sexual immorality, but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body.
• Gal 3:21Is the law, then, opposed to the promises of God? Certainly not! For if a law had been given that could impart life, then righteousness would certainly have come from the law.
• Eph 1:22–23And God put everything under His feet and made Him head over everything for the church,
• Rom 6:2Certainly not! How can we who died to sin live in it any longer?
• Rom 3:31Do we, then, nullify the law by this faith? Certainly not! Instead, we uphold the law.
• Rom 7:7What then shall we say? Is the law sin? Certainly not! Indeed, I would not have been mindful of sin if not for the law. For I would not have been aware of coveting if the law had not said, “Do not covet.”
• Gen 44:17But Joseph replied, “Far be it from me to do this. The man who was found with the cup will be my slave. The rest of you may return to your father in peace.”
• Rom 6:15What then? Shall we sin because we are not under law, but under grace? Certainly not!
• Rom 3:6Certainly not! In that case, how could God judge the world?

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