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].

But the person who is joined to the Lord is one spirit [with Him]. [Note: Just as the person who has sex with someone enters a close physical union with that person, so the person who becomes a Christian enters a close spiritual union with Christ].

Brothers, let each one remain with God in that condition in which he was [when he was] called.

But food does not bring us close to God. For neither if we eat do we have more, nor if we do not eat do we lack.

These things happened to them by way of warning, and were recorded to serve as a caution to us, in whose days the close of the ages has come.

Does not the "cup of blessing," which we bless, signify a fellowship with Christ's [physical] blood? [Note: This was the cup used at the close of the Passover meal and was called this because of the prayer of thanksgiving offered for it. Paul refers to such a prayer in connection with its use in the Lord's Supper]. Does not the bread that we break signify a fellowship with Christ's [physical] body?

For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known.

I intend, however, staying at Ephesus till the Festival at the close of the Harvest;

The churches in Asia send you their greetings [Note: This was the westernmost province in present-day Turkey]. Aquila and Prisca [Note: This married couple were close friends and fellow-tentmakers of Paul], along with the church that meets in their house, send you their warm greetings in [fellowship with] Christ.