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1 Corinthians 6:16
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from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
an harlot: Genesis 34:31, Genesis 38:15, Genesis 38:24, Judges 16:1, Matthew 21:31, Matthew 21:32, Hebrews 11:31
for: Genesis 2:24, Matthew 19:5, Matthew 19:6, Mark 10:8, Ephesians 5:31
Reciprocal: Isaiah 40:28 - thou not known Hosea 4:14 - for Romans 6:3 - Know 1 Corinthians 1:1 - through 1 Corinthians 3:16 - Know 1 Corinthians 6:9 - Know 1 Corinthians 6:19 - What Hebrews 8:10 - I will be
Cross-References
Those who went in, went in male and female of all flesh, as God commanded him; and the LORD shut him in.
And they that went in, went in male and female of all flesh, as God had commanded him: and the Lord shut him in.
And those that came, male and female, of every living thing, came as God had commanded him. And Yahweh shut the door behind him.
One male and one female of every living thing came, just as God had commanded Noah. Then the Lord closed the door behind them.
Those that entered were male and female, just as God commanded him. Then the Lord shut him in.
Those which entered, male and female of all flesh (creatures), entered as God had commanded Noah; and the LORD closed the door behind him.
Those that entered, male and female of all flesh, entered as God had commanded him; and the LORD closed the door behind him.
And they entring in, came male and female of all flesh, as God had commanded him: and the Lord shut him in.
And those that entered, male and female of all flesh, entered as God had commanded him; and Yahweh closed it behind him.
just as God had told him to do. And when they were all in the boat, God closed the door.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
What? know ye not that he which is joined to an harlot,.... Not in marriage, but in carnal copulation, and unclean embraces, is one body with her
for two ("saith he", Adam, or Moses, or God, or the Scripture, or as R. Sol. Jarchi says, the Holy Spirit, Genesis 2:24)
shall be one flesh; what is originally said of copulation in lawful marriage, in which man and wife, legally coupled together, become one flesh, is applied to the unlawful copulation of a man with an harlot, by which act they also become one body, one flesh; and which is made use of by the apostle, to deter the members of Christ from the commission of this sin, which makes a member of Christ one body and flesh with an harlot, than which nothing is more monstrous and detestable. The apostle here directs to the true sense of the phrase in Genesis, "and they shall be one flesh"; that is, man and wife shall only have carnal knowledge of, and copulation with each other. Some Jewish k writers interpret this phrase, ××¦× ×××× "on account of the foetus", which is formed by the means of them both, and which becomes "their one flesh": others l, thus as if they were, or because they are, like as if they were one flesh; but others m, in more agreement with the apostle, think that this has respect ×× ××××ר, "to that conjunction", by which the fixing of the species is completed; and others n expressly thus, "they two shall be one flesh",
××ק×× ×©×©× ××× ×¢×ש×× ×שר ×××, "that is, in the place where both of them make one flesh": which is equally done by unlawful copulation with an harlot, as with a man's own wife.
k Tzeror Hammor, fol. 6. 3. Jarchi in Gen. ii. 24. l Aben Ezra in ib. m R. Levi ben Gersom in ib. n Bereshit Rabba, sect. 18. fol. 15. 3. T. Hieros. Kiddushin, fol. 58. 3.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
Know ye not ... - This is the third argument against licentiousness. It is, that we as Christians are united to Christ (compare the notes at John 15:1 ff); and that it is abominable to take the members of Christ and subject them to pollution and sin. Christ was pure - wholly pure. We are professedly united to him. We are bound therefore to be pure, as he was. Shall that which is a part, as it were, of the pure and holy Saviour, be prostituted to impure and unholy embraces?
God forbid! - See the note at Romans 3:4. This expresses the deep abhorrence of the apostle at the thought. It needed not argument to show it. The whole world revolted at the idea; and language could scarcely express the abomination of the very thought.
Know ye not ... - This is designed to confirm and strengthen what he had just said.
He which is joined - Who is attached to; or who is connected with.
Is one body - That is, is to he regarded as one; is closely and intimately united. Similar expressions occur in Classic writers. See Grotius and Bloomfield.
For two, saith he ... - This Paul illustrates by a reference to the formation of the marriage connection in Ger. Romans 2:14. He cannot be understood as affirming that that passage had original reference to illicit connections; but be uses it for purposes of illustration. God had declared that the man and his wife became one; in a similar sense in unlawful connections the parties became one.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse 1 Corinthians 6:16. He that is joined to a harlot is one body — In Sohar Genes., fol. 19, we have these remarkable words: Whosoever connects himself with another man's wife, does in effect renounce the holy blessed God, and the Church of the Israelites.
