Parallel Verses
Goodspeed New Testament
Or do you not know that a man who has to do with a prostitute makes one body with her? For "The two," says the Scripture, "shall become physically one."
New American Standard Bible
Or
King James Version
What? know ye not that he which is joined to an harlot is one body? for two, saith he, shall be one flesh.
Holman Bible
Don’t you know that anyone joined to a prostitute is one body with her? For Scripture says, The two will become one flesh.
International Standard Version
You know that the person who unites himself with a prostitute becomes one body with her, don't you? For it is said, "The two will become one flesh."
A Conservative Version
Or know ye not that he who is joined to a harlot is one body? For, The two, he says, will be in one flesh.
American Standard Version
Or know ye not that he that is joined to a harlot is one body? for, The twain, saith he, shall become one flesh.
Amplified
Do you not know that the one who joins himself to a prostitute is one body with her? For He says, “The two shall be one flesh.”
An Understandable Version
Or, do you not know that the person who is joined to a prostitute is one body [with her, physically]? For God says [Gen. 2:24], "The two will become one flesh" [i.e., united in such a close relationship as to practically constitute one body].
Anderson New Testament
Know you not that he that is joined to a harlot, is one body? For the two, says the scripture, shall be one flesh.
Bible in Basic English
Or do you not see that he who is joined to a loose woman is one body with her? for God has said, The two of them will become one flesh.
Common New Testament
Or do you not know that he who joins himself to a prostitute becomes one body with her? For, as it is written, "The two shall become one flesh."
Daniel Mace New Testament
it cannot be. why, don't you perceive, that where there is such an attachment, they are but as one person? for the scripture says, "they two shall be as one."
Darby Translation
Do ye not know that he that is joined to the harlot is one body? for the two, he says, shall be one flesh.
Godbey New Testament
Do you not know that he who is joined to the harlot is one body? for it says, They two shall be one flesh.
John Wesley New Testament
God forbid. Know ye not, that he who is joined to an harlot is one body? For they two, saith he, shall be one flesh.
Julia Smith Translation
Or know ye not that he joined to a harlot is one body? for they shall be, he says, they two into one flesh.
King James 2000
What? know you not that he who is joined to a harlot is one body? for two, says he, shall be one flesh.
Lexham Expanded Bible
Or do you not know that the one who joins himself to a prostitute is one body [with her]? For it says, "The two will become one flesh."
Modern King James verseion
Or do you not know that he being joined to a harlot is one body? For He says, The two shall be one flesh.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Do ye not understand that he which coupleth himself with a harlot, is become one body? "For two," saith he, "shall be one flesh."
Moffatt New Testament
Do you not know that he who joins himself to a harlot is one with her in body (for the pair, it is said, shall become one flesh),
Montgomery New Testament
Do you not know that he who joins himself to a harlot is one with her in body? (For God says, The two shall become one flesh.)
NET Bible
Or do you not know that anyone who is united with a prostitute is one body with her? For it is said, "The two will become one flesh."
New Heart English Bible
Or do you not know that he who is joined to a prostitute is one body? For, "The two," says he, "will become one flesh."
Noyes New Testament
Know ye not, that he who is connected with a harlot is one body with her? "For the two," saith he, "shall become one flesh;"
Sawyer New Testament
Know you not that he who is joined to a harlot is one body [with her]? For the two, says he, shall be one flesh.
The Emphasized Bible
Or know ye not that, he that joineth himself unto the harlot, is, one body? For, saith he, the two, shall become, one flesh;
Thomas Haweis New Testament
Do you not know that he that is joined to an harlot is one body with her? For they two, saith he, shall be "one flesh."
Twentieth Century New Testament
Or do not you know that a man who unites himself with a prostitute is one with her in body (for 'the two,' it is said, 'will become one');
Webster
What? know ye not that he who is joined to a harlot is one body? for two, saith he, shall be one flesh.
Weymouth New Testament
Or do you not know that a man who has to do with a prostitute is one with her in body? For God says, "The two shall become one."
Williams New Testament
Or, are you not aware that a man who has to do with a prostitute makes his body one with hers? For God says, "The two shall be physically one."
World English Bible
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."
Worrell New Testament
Or know ye not that he who is united to the harlot is one body? For, "the two", He saith, "shall be one flesh";
Worsley New Testament
God forbid! What! know ye not that he who is joined to an harlot is one body with her? for these two, saith he, shall be one flesh.
Youngs Literal Translation
have ye not known that he who is joined to the harlot is one body? 'for they shall be -- saith He -- the two for one flesh.'
Themes
Communion » Those that are joined to the lord
Marriage » Husbands and wives becoming one
Sexual activities » Avoiding fornication
Topics
Interlinear
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Usage: 188
References
Word Count of 37 Translations in 1 Corinthians 6:16
Verse Info
Context Readings
Avoid Sexual Immorality
15 Do you not know that your bodies are parts of Christ's body? Am I then to take away from Christ parts of his body, and make them parts of a prostitute's? Never! 16 Or do you not know that a man who has to do with a prostitute makes one body with her? For "The two," says the Scripture, "shall become physically one." 17 But whoever is united with the Lord is one with him in spirit.
Phrases
Cross References
Ephesians 5:31
Therefore a man must leave his father and mother and attach himself to his wife, and they must become one.
Mark 10:8
and so they are no longer two but one.
Matthew 19:5-6
and said, 'For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two of them shall become one'? So they are no longer two but one.
Matthew 21:31-32
Which of the two did what his father wanted?" They said, "The second one." Jesus said to them, "I tell you, the tax-collectors and prostitutes are going into the Kingdom of God ahead of you.
Hebrews 11:31
Faith saved Rahab the prostitute from being destroyed with those who disobeyed God, because she had given a friendly welcome to the scouts.