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, of his flesh, and of his bones.
• Rom 12:5So we, being many, are one body in Christ, and every one members one of another.
• Eph 4:15–16But speaking the truth in love, may grow up into him in all things, which is the head, even Christ:
• Col 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.
• 1 Cor 12:27Now ye are the body of Christ, and members in particular.
• Eph 4:12For the perfecting of the saints, for the work of the ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ:
• 1 Cor 6:19What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own?
• 1 Cor 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.
• Gal 6:14But God forbid that I should glory, save in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom the world is crucified unto me, and I unto the world.
• Eph 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.
• Luke 20:16He shall come and destroy these husbandmen, and shall give the vineyard to others. And when they heard it, they said, God forbid.
• Rom 7:13Was then that which is good made death unto me? God forbid. But sin, that it might appear sin, working death in me by that which is good; that sin by the commandment might become exceeding sinful.
• Gal 2:17But if, while we seek to be justified by Christ, we ourselves also are found sinners, is therefore Christ the minister of sin? God forbid.
• Rom 3:3–4For what if some did not believe? shall their unbelief make the faith of God without effect?
• 1 Cor 6:13Meats for the belly, and the belly for meats: but God shall destroy both it and them. Now the body is not for fornication, but for the Lord; and the Lord for the body.
• Gal 3:21Is the law then against the promises of God? God forbid: for if there had been a law given which could have given life, verily righteousness should have been by the law.
• Eph 1:22–23And hath put all things under his feet, and gave him to be the head over all things to the church,
• Rom 6:2God forbid. How shall we, that are dead to sin, live any longer therein?
• Rom 3:31Do we then make void the law through faith? God forbid: yea, we establish the law.
• Rom 7:7What shall we say then? Is the law sin? God forbid. 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.
• Gen 44:17And he said, God forbid that I should do so: but the man in whose hand the cup is found, he shall be my servant; and as for you, get you up in peace unto your father.
• Rom 6:15What then? shall we sin, because we are not under the law, but under grace? God forbid.
• Rom 3:6God forbid: for then how shall God judge the world?

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