1 Corinthians 6:16 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

¹⁶ Do you not know that whoever is united to a prostitute becomes one body with her? For it is said, “The two shall be one flesh.”

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁶ What? know ye not that he which is joined to an harlot is one body? for two, saith he, shall be one flesh.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁶ Or do you not know and realize that when a man joins himself to a prostitute, he becomes one body with her? The two, it is written, shall become one flesh. [Gen. 2:24.]

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁶ Or know ye not that he that is joined to a harlot is one body? for, The twain, saith he, shall become one flesh.

Common English Bible

¹⁶ Don’t you know that anyone who is joined to someone who is sleeping around is one body with that person? The scripture says, “The two will become one flesh”.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁶ And do you not know that whoever is joined to a harlot becomes one body? "For the two," he said, "shall be as one flesh."

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹⁶ Or know you not, that he who is joined to a harlot, is made one body? For they shall be, saith he, two in one flesh.

1 Corinthians 6:16 Cross References

Genesis 2:24

Therefore a man leaves his father and his mother and clings to his wife, and they become one flesh.

Genesis 34:31

But they said, “Should our sister be treated like a prostitute?”

Genesis 38:15

When Judah saw her, he thought her to be a prostitute, for she had covered her face.

Genesis 38:24

About three months later Judah was told, “Your daughter-in-law Tamar has prostituted herself; moreover, she is pregnant as a result of prostitution.” And Judah said, “Bring her out, and let her be burned.”

Mark 10:8

and the two shall become one flesh.’ So they are no longer two but one flesh.

1 Corinthians 6:3

Do you not know that we are to judge angels, to say nothing of ordinary matters?

Ephesians 5:31

“For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two will become one flesh.”

Hebrews 11:31

By faith Rahab the prostitute did not perish with those who were disobedient, because she had received the spies in peace.

Judges 16:1

Once Samson went to Gaza, where he saw a prostitute and went in to her.