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Selected Verse: 1 Corinthians 6:16 - King James
| Verse |
Translation |
Text |
| 1Co 6:16 |
King James |
What? know ye not that he which is joined to an harlot is one body? for two, saith he, shall be one flesh. |
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| A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882] |
Justification of his having called fornicators "members of an harlot" (Co1 6:15).
joined--by carnal intercourse; literally, "cemented to": cleaving to.
one body--with her.
saith he--God speaking by Adam (Gen 2:24; Mat 19:5). "He which made them at the beginning said," &c. (Eph 5:31). |
| Vincent's Word Studies, by Marvin R. Vincent [1886] |
He that is joined (ὁ κολλώμενος)
See on Luk 15:15. Compare Aeschylus: "The family has been glued (κεκόλληται) to misfortune" ("Agamemnon," 1543). The verb is used Gen 2:24, Sept., of the relation of husband and wife: shall cleave. In Deu 10:20; Deu 11:22; Jer 13:11, of man's cleaving to God.
To a harlot (τῇ πόρνῃ)
Lit., the harlot. The article is significant: his harlot, or that one with whom he is sinning at the time.
Shall be one flesh (ἔσονται εἰς σάρκα μίαν)
Lit., shall be unto one flesh: i.e., from being two, shall pass into one. Hence Rev., rightly, shall become. Compare Eph 2:15. |
| Explanatory Notes on the Whole Bible, by John Wesley [1754-65] |
| Gen 2:24. |
| Adam Clarke Commentary on the Whole Bible - Published 1810-1826 |
| 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. |
31 For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall be joined unto his wife, and they two shall be one flesh.
5 And said, For this cause shall a man leave father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife: and they twain shall be one flesh?
24 Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.
15 Know ye not that your bodies are the members of Christ? shall I then take the members of Christ, and make them the members of an harlot? God forbid.
15 Having abolished in his flesh the enmity, even the law of commandments contained in ordinances; for to make in himself of twain one new man, so making peace;
11 For as the girdle cleaveth to the loins of a man, so have I caused to cleave unto me the whole house of Israel and the whole house of Judah, saith the LORD; that they might be unto me for a people, and for a name, and for a praise, and for a glory: but they would not hear.
22 For if ye shall diligently keep all these commandments which I command you, to do them, to love the LORD your God, to walk in all his ways, and to cleave unto him;
20 Thou shalt fear the LORD thy God; him shalt thou serve, and to him shalt thou cleave, and swear by his name.
24 Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.
15 And he went and joined himself to a citizen of that country; and he sent him into his fields to feed swine.
24 Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.