1 Corinto 6:16

Filipino Cebuano Bible

16 Wala ba kamo masayud nga siya nga nahilingkit ngadto sa babayeng dautan nahimong usa ka lawas uban kaniya? Kay, sumala sa nahisulat, "Ang duroha mahimong usa."

Bible Verse Review
  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

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, מצד הולד "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 אל החבור, "to that conjunction", by which the fixing of the species is completed; and others n expressly thus, "they two shall be one flesh",

למקום ששניהם עושים בשר אחד, "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.