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.”
16. Know ye not that he that is joined to an harlot He brings out more fully the greatness of the injury that is done to Christ by the man that has intercourse with an harlot; for he becomes one body, and hence he tears away a member from Christ’s body.
Some Corinthians thought fornication as lawful as eating meat, since their pagan city did not condemn it. But lawfulness is not the measure; fitness is. Consider your profession, your character, your hope, and beware lest you fall into bondage to appetite while claiming freedom in Christ.
AI summary
Commenting on 1 Corinthians 6:12-20
What? know ye not that he which is joined to an harlot,.... Not in marriage, but in carnal copulation, and unclean embraces, is one body with her for two ("saith he", Adam, or Moses, or God, or the Scripture, or as R. Sol.