One body (εν σωμα). With the harlot. That union is for the harlot the same as with the wife. The words quoted from Ge 2:24 describ…

Do you not know, etc.? This is the third argument against licentiousness. It is that we, as Christians, are united to Christ (com…

What?—As if someone might question and resent the strength of the previous words, and wish them “watered down.” “Do you not know t…

A further argument that the Christian’s body is for the Lord is that God’s people are members of his mystical body (cf. [Reference 1 Corinthians 12…

Know ye not that he that is joined to an harlot: He brings out more fully the greatness of the injury that is done to Christ by the man wh…

What? know you not that he which is joined to an harlot ,
&c.] Not in marriage, but in carnal copulation, and unclea…

Some among the Corinthians seem to have been ready to say, All things are lawful for me. This dangerous notion St. Paul opposes. There is …

After rebuking the Corinthians about lawsuits, the Apostle now returns to condemn the sin of sexual immorality, which he mentioned in [Reference 1 …