1 Corinthians 6:15-17
What is written? (ESV)
Do you not know that your bodies are members of Christ? Shall I then take the members of Christ and make them members of a prostitute? Never! Or do you not know that he who is joined to a prostitute becomes one body with her? For, as it is written, "The two will become one flesh." But he who is joined to the Lord becomes one spirit with him.
What does it say?
Don’t you know that your bodies are joined with Christ’s body? Would I [Paul] then take those joined to Christ and join them with a prostitute? Of course not! Or don’t you know that anyone joined to a prostitute becomes one with her? For Scripture says that the two will become one. But the one joined to the Lord is one spirit with Him.
What is its immediate context?
Paul is addressing the brethren of Corinth that are relatively new to the faith. He lists several sinful practices of the “unrighteous” (vss 9-10) – practices that some in Corinth had taken part of but had turned from them in their conversion. He turns to focus specifically on sexual immorality, stating, “Food is meant for the stomach and the stomach for food—and God will destroy both one and the other. The body is not meant for sexual immorality, but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body.” (vs 13)Paul quotes from Genesis 2:24.
How 1 Corinthians 6:15-17 is applied across Bible answers
Top 4: Results of baptism?
Paul says that anyone who is a "member of Christ" or "joined to the Lord" is "one spirit".
Paul has already stated that he's addressing those who have been "washed" and "sanctified" and "justified" in the name of (e.g. by the authority of) Jesus Christ and "by the Spirit of our God" (vs 11). Paul's describing baptism9 -- how they became "members of Christ". He goes on to define explicitly that it's the Holy Spirit that's within their physical bodies (vs 19).
