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16 Or don’t you know that anyone who joins himself to a prostitute is one body with her? “The two shall become one flesh”—that’s what it says. 17 But the one who joins himself to the Lord becomes one spirit with him.

18 Run away from immorality. Every sin that it’s possible for someone to commit happens outside the body; but immorality involves sinning against your own body.

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16 Do you not know that he who unites himself with a prostitute is one with her in body? For it is said, “The two will become one flesh.”[a](A) 17 But whoever is united with the Lord is one with him in spirit.[b](B)

18 Flee from sexual immorality.(C) All other sins a person commits are outside the body, but whoever sins sexually, sins against their own body.(D)

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Corinthians 6:16 Gen. 2:24
  2. 1 Corinthians 6:17 Or in the Spirit