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Or don`t you know that he who is joined to a prostitute is one body? For, "The two," says he, "will become one flesh."
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Sex Creates a "One Flesh" Union
Commentators explain that Paul quotes Genesis 2:24, which originally described the sacred bond of marriage. He applies this "one flesh" principle to sexual immorality to show that it is not a casual act. It creates a profound, one-body union, which in this case is a sinful perversion of the unity God intended for marriage.
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1 Corinthians
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18th Century
Presbyterian
Do you not know, etc.? This is the third argument against licentiousness. It is that we, as Christians, are united to Christ (com…
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…
19th Century
Anglican
What?—As if someone might question and resent the strength of the previous words, and wish them “watered down.” “Do you not know t…
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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…
16th Century
Protestant
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…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
What? know you not that he which is joined to an harlot , &c.] Not in marriage, but in carnal copulation, and unclea…
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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 …
13th Century
Catholic
After rebuking the Corinthians about lawsuits, the Apostle now returns to condemn the sin of sexual immorality, which he mentioned in [Reference 1 …
