1 CORINTHIANS 6:16 — KING JAMES VERSION 0
“What? know ye not that he which is joined to an harlot is one body? for two, saith he, shall be one flesh.”
'For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh.' — Paul cites Genesis 2:24, the foundational text on marital union. The quotation establishes that sexual union creates a one-flesh reality, a permanent existential bond. By applying this to illicit sexual relations, Paul implies that sexual immorality creates an unintended but real bodily union with a prostitute—an anti-marriage, an anti-covenant bond that contradicts the believer's primary covenant with Christ.
Church Fathers on 1 Corinthians 6:16
Having passed on from the fornicator to the covetous person, he comes back to the former from the latter, no longer henceforth discoursing with him but with the others who had not committed fornication. And in the act of securing them lest they fall into the same sins, he assails him again. For he that has committed sin, though you direct your words to another, is stung even in that way; his conscience being thoroughly awakened and scourging him. Now the fear of punishment…
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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