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 5:30because we are members of his body, of his flesh and bones.
• Rom 12:5so we, who are many, are one body in Christ, and individually members one of another.
• Eph 4:15–16but speaking truth in love, we may grow up in all things into him, who is the head, Christ;
• Col 2:19and not holding firmly to the Head, from whom all the body, being supplied and knit together through the joints and ligaments, grows with God’s growth.
• 1 Cor 12:27Now you are the body of Christ, and members individually.
• Eph 4:12for the perfecting of the saints, to the work of serving, to the building up of the body of Christ;
• 1 Cor 6:19Or don’t you know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have from God? You 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 man, and the head of Christ is God.
• Gal 6:14But far be it from me to 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 also is the head of the assembly, being himself the savior of the body.
• Luke 20:16He will come and destroy these farmers, and will give the vineyard to others.” When they heard it, they said, “May it never be!”
• Rom 7:13Did then that which is good become death to me? May it never be! But sin, that it might be shown to be sin, by producing death in me through that which is good; that through the commandment sin might become exceedingly sinful.
• Gal 2:17But if, while we sought to be justified in Christ, we ourselves also were found sinners, is Christ a servant of sin? Certainly not!
• Rom 3:3–4For what if some were without faith? Will their lack of faith nullify the faithfulness of God?
• 1 Cor 6:13“Foods for the belly, and the belly for foods,” but God will bring to nothing both it and them. But the body is not for sexual immorality, but for the Lord; and the Lord for the body.
• Gal 3:21Is the law then against the promises of God? Certainly not! For if there had been a law given which could make alive, most certainly righteousness would have been of the law.
• Eph 1:22–23He put all things in subjection under his feet, and gave him to be head over all things for the assembly,
• Rom 6:2May it never be! We who died to sin, how could we live in it any longer?
• Rom 3:31Do we then nullify the law through faith? May it never be! No, we establish the law.
• Rom 7:7What shall we say then? Is the law sin? May it never be! However, I wouldn’t have known sin, except through the law. For I wouldn’t have known coveting, unless the law had said, “You shall not covet.”
• Gen 44:17He said, “Far be it from me that I should do so. The man in whose hand the cup is found, he will be my slave; but as for you, go up in peace to your father.”
• Rom 6:15What then? Shall we sin, because we are not under law, but under grace? May it never be!
• Rom 3:6May it never be! For then how will God judge the world?

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