1 Corinthians 6:16

“What? know ye not that he which is joined to an harlot, etc.] 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. Jarchi says, the Holy Spirit, (<010224>Genesis 2:24)) shall be one flesh; what is originally said of copulation in lawful marriage, in which man and wife, legally coupled together, become one flesh, is applied to the unlawful copulation of a man with an harlot, by which act they also become one body, one flesh; and which is made use of by the apostle, to deter the members of Christ from the commission of this sin, which makes a member of Christ one body and flesh with an…”

“Justification of his having called fornicators "members of an harlot" (Co1 6:15). joined--by carnal intercourse; literally, "cemented to": cleaving to. one body--with her. saith he--God speaking by Adam (Gen 2:24; Mat 19:5). "He which made them at the beginning said," &c. (Eph 5:31).”

“Know ye not ... - This is the third argument against licentiousness. It is, that we as Christians are united to Christ (compare the notes at John 15:1 ff); and that it is abominable to take the members of Christ and subject them to pollution and sin. Christ was pure - wholly pure. We are professedly united to him. We are bound therefore to be pure, as he was. Shall that which is a part, as it were, of the pure and holy Saviour, be prostituted to impure and unholy embraces? God forbid! - See the note at Romans 3:4. This expresses the deep abhorrence of the apostle at the thought. It needed not argument to show it. The whole world revolted at the idea; and language could scarcely express the…”

“Gen 2:24. 1 Corinthians 6:17”

“an harlot: Gen 34:31, Gen 38:15, Gen 38:24; Jdg 16:1; Mat 21:31, Mat 21:32; Heb 11:31 for: Gen 2:24; Mat 19:5, Mat 19:6; Mar 10:8; Eph 5:31 1 Corinthians 6:17”