1 Corinthians 6:15-19

Flee Sexual Immorality

¹⁵ Do you not know that _k your bodies are members of Christ? Shall I then take the members of Christ and make them members of a prostitute? Never! ¹⁶ Or do you not know that he who is joined ₁ to a prostitute becomes one body with her? For, as it is written, _l "The two will become one flesh." ¹⁷ But he who is joined to the Lord _m becomes one spirit with him. ¹⁸ _n Flee from sexual immorality. Every other sin ₂ a person commits is outside the body, but the sexually immoral person _o sins against his own body. ¹⁹ Or _p do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit within you, whom you have from God? _q You are not your own,

1. Cross References
   1 Corinthians 6:13
   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.
   Ephesians 5:30
   Because we are members of his body.
   1 Corinthians 12:27
   Now you are the body of Christ and individually members of it.
   Romans 12:5
   So we, though many, are one body in Christ, and individually members one of another.
   
2. Cross References
   Matthew 19:5
   And said, 'Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh'?
   Mark 10:8
   And the two shall become one flesh.' So they are no longer two but one flesh.
   Ephesians 5:31
   "Therefore a man shall leave his father and mother and hold fast to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh."
   Genesis 2:24
   Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and they shall become one flesh.
   
3. Cross References
   Genesis 2:24
   Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and they shall become one flesh.
   
4. Cross References
   Ephesians 4:4
   There is one body and one Spirit - just as you were called to the one hope that belongs to your call -
   John 17:21 - 23
   That they may all be one, just as you, Father, are in me, and I in you, that they also may be in us, so that the world may believe that you have sent me.
   
5. Cross References
   2 Corinthians 12:21
   I fear that when I come again my God may humble me before you, and I may have to mourn over many of those who sinned earlier and have not repented of the impurity, sexual immorality, and sensuality that they have practiced.
   Ephesians 5:3
   But sexual immorality and all impurity or covetousness must not even be named among you, as is proper among saints.
   
6. Cross References
   Proverbs 5:11
   And at the end of your life you groan, when your flesh and body are consumed.
   
7. Cross References
   John 2:21
   But he was speaking about the temple of his body.
   1 Corinthians 3:16
   Do you not know that you are God's temple and that God's Spirit dwells in you?
   
8. Cross References
   Romans 14:7
   For none of us lives to himself, and none of us dies to himself.