1 Corinthians 6:17

New Life Version

But if you join yourself to the Lord, you are one with Him in spirit.

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
But anyone joined to the Lord is one spirit with him.

King James Version (1611)
But hee that is ioyned vnto the Lord, is one spirit.

King James Version
But he that is joined unto the Lord is one spirit.

English Standard Version
But he who is joined to the Lord becomes one spirit with him.

New American Standard Bible
But the one who joins himself to the Lord is one spirit with Him.

New Century Version
But the one who joins with the Lord is one spirit with the Lord.

Amplified Bible
But the one who is united and joined to the Lord is one spirit with Him.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
But the one who joins himself to the Lord is one spirit with Him.

Legacy Standard Bible
But the one who joins himself to the Lord is one spirit with Him.

Berean Standard Bible
But he who unites himself with the Lord is one with Him in spirit.

Contemporary English Version
But anyone who is joined to the Lord is one in spirit with him.

Complete Jewish Bible
but the person who is joined to the Lord is one spirit.

Darby Translation
But he that [is] joined to the Lord is one Spirit.

Easy-to-Read Version
But anyone who is joined with the Lord is one with him in spirit.

Geneva Bible (1587)
But hee that is ioyned vnto the Lorde, is one spirite.

George Lamsa Translation
But he who unites himself with our LORD becomes one with him in spirit.

Good News Translation
But he who joins himself to the Lord becomes spiritually one with him.

Lexham English Bible
But the one who joins himself to the Lord is one spirit with him.

Literal Translation
But the one being joined to the Lord is one spirit.

American Standard Version
But he that is joined unto the Lord is one spirit.

Bible in Basic English
But he who is united to the Lord is one spirit.

Hebrew Names Version
But he who is joined to the Lord is one spirit.

International Standard Version
But the person who unites himself with the Lord becomes one spirit with him.John 17:21-23; Ephesians 4:4; 5:30;">[xr]

Etheridge Translation
But, he who attacheth to our Lord is with him one spirit.

Murdock Translation
But he that joineth himself to our Lord, is with him one spirit.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
But he that is ioyned vnto the Lord is one spirite.

English Revised Version
But he that is joined unto the Lord is one spirit.

World English Bible
But he who is joined to the Lord is one spirit.

Wesley's New Testament (1755)
But he that is joined to the Lord is one Spirit.

Weymouth's New Testament
But he who is in union with the Master is one with Him in spirit.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And he that cleueth to the Lord, is o spirit.

Update Bible Version
But he that is joined to the Lord is one spirit.

Webster's Bible Translation
But he that is joined to the Lord is one spirit.

New English Translation
But the one united with the Lord is one spirit with him.

New King James Version
But he who is joined to the Lord is one spirit with Him.

New Living Translation
But the person who is joined to the Lord is one spirit with him.

New Revised Standard
But anyone united to the Lord becomes one spirit with him.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
But, he that joineth himself unto the Lord, is, one Spirit.

Douay-Rheims Bible
But he who is joined to the Lord is one spirit.

Revised Standard Version
But he who is united to the Lord becomes one spirit with him.

Tyndale New Testament (1525)
But he that is ioyned vnto the Lorde is one sprete.

Young's Literal Translation
And he who is joined to the Lord is one spirit;

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
But he that cleueth vnto the LORDE, is one sprete.

Mace New Testament (1729)
but he that is attach'd to the Lord, is united to him by one and the same spirit.

Simplified Cowboy Version
But the one who rides with the Lord is one with him.

Contextual Overview

¹² I am allowed to do all things, but not everything is good for me to do! Even if I am free to do all things, I will not do them if I think it would be hard for me to stop when I know I should. ¹³ Food was meant for the stomach. The stomach needs food, but God will bring to an end both food and the stomach. The body was not meant for sex sins. It was meant to work for the Lord. The Lord is for our body. ¹⁴ God raised the Lord from death. He will raise us from death by His power also. ¹⁵ Do you not know that your bodies are a part of Christ Himself? Am I to take a part of Christ and make it a part of a woman who sells the use of her body? No! Never! ¹⁶ Do you not know that a man who joins himself to a woman who sells the use of her body becomes a part of her? The Holy Writings say, "The two will become one." ¹⁷ But if you join yourself to the Lord, you are one with Him in spirit. ¹⁸ Have nothing to do with sex sins! Any other sin that a man does, does not hurt his own body. But the man who does a sex sin sins against his own body. ¹⁹ Do you not know that your body is a house of God where the Holy Spirit lives? God gave you His Holy Spirit. Now you belong to God. You do not belong to yourselves. ²⁰ God bought you with a great price. So honor God with your body. You belong to Him.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

1 Corinthians 12:13, John 3:6, John 17:21-23, Ephesians 4:3, Ephesians 4:4, Ephesians 5:30, Philippians 2:5

Reciprocal: Genesis 2:24 - and they shall be one flesh Deuteronomy 13:4 - and cleave Psalms 86:11 - unite Isaiah 56:3 - joined 1 Corinthians 1:1 - through

Cross-References

Genesis 2:7
Then the Lord God made man from the dust of the ground. And He breathed into his nose the breath of life. Man became a living being.

Genesis 6:3
Then the Lord said, "My Spirit will not stay in man forever, for he is flesh. But yet he will live for 120 years."

Genesis 6:4
Very large men were on the earth in those days, and later also, when the sons of God lived with the daughters of men, who gave birth to their children. These were the powerful men of long ago, men of much strength.

Genesis 6:7
So the Lord said, "I will destroy man whom I have made from the land, man and animals, things that move upon the earth and birds of the sky. For I am sorry that I have made them."

Genesis 6:12
God looked at the earth and saw how sinful it was. For all who lived on the earth had become sinful in their ways.

Genesis 6:13
Then God said to Noah, "I have decided to make an end to all the people on the earth. They are the cause of very much trouble. See, I will destroy them as I destroy the earth.

Genesis 6:14
Make a large boat of gopher wood for yourself. Build rooms in the boat. And cover it inside and out with tar.

Genesis 6:20
Two of all the kinds of birds, and animals, and every thing that moves on the ground are to be with you to keep them alive.

Genesis 6:21
And take with you every kind of food that is eaten, and store it. It will be food for you and for them."

Genesis 6:22
Noah did just what God told him to do.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

He that is joined unto the Lord,.... As every elect person is; his whole person, soul and body, is united to the Lord Jesus Christ, to his whole person, as God-man and Mediator; even as Adam and Eve, whose marriage was a representation of the marriage between Christ and his church, were personally united, and were called by the same name; and as the whole human nature of Christ, consisting of a true body and a reasonable soul, was united to the person of the Son of God; and as appears from the influence that union with Christ has upon the redemption, sanctification, and resurrection of the body. The ground, foundation, and bond of which union is, not the Spirit on Christ's part; for the Spirit being received as a spirit of regeneration, sanctification, c. is a fruit of union to Christ, and an evidence of it nor faith on our part, which as a grace is not ours, but the gift of God, and is a fruit of union; nor is it of an uniting nature, but is a grace of communion; and the foundation of all its acts, as seeing Christ, going to him, receiving of him, walking on in him; c. is a previous union to Christ but it is the everlasting and unchangeable love of Christ to them, shown in his choice of them, in his covenant with his Father on their behalf, in his engaging for them as a surety, in assuming their nature, and acting, both in time and eternity, as the representative of them, which is the bond and cement of their union, and from which there can be no separation. This union is first discovered in the effectual calling, and will be more manifest hereafter. Now he that is in this sense united to Christ,

is one spirit; for this union is a spiritual one; it is complete and perfect; near and indissoluble; by virtue and in consequence of it, God's chosen ones come to have and enjoy the same spirit in measure, which Christ their head and Mediator has without measure: hence they have the Spirit of God, as a spirit of illumination and conversion, of faith and holiness, of adoption, and as the earnest, pledge, and seal of their future glory. And since so it is, fornication, which makes them one flesh with an harlot, ought studiously to be abstained from.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

But he that is joined to the Lord - The true Christian, united by faith to the Lord Jesus; see John 15:1 ff.

Is one spirit - That is, in a sense similar to that in which a man and his wife are one body. It is not to be taken literally; but the sense is, that there is a close and intimate union; they are united in feeling, spirit, intention, disposition. The argument is beautiful. It is, “As the union of souls is more important than that of bodies; as that union is more lasting, dear, and enduring than any union of body with body can be, and as our union with him is with a Spirit pure and holy, it is improper that we should sever that tie, and break that sacred bond, by being joined to a harlot. The union with Christ is more intimate, entire, and pure than that can be between a man and woman; and that union should be regarded as sacred and inviolable.” O, if all Christians felt and regarded this as they should, how would they shrink from the connections which they often form on earth! Compare Ephesians 4:4.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 17. Is one spirit. — He who is united to God, by faith in Christ Jesus, receives his Spirit, and becomes a partaker of the Divine nature. Who can change such a relationship for communion with a harlot; or for any kind of sensual gratification? He who can must be far and deeply fallen!