1Cor 6:16, 7:2, 4 | ESV | STEP | 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 .

b Matt. 19:5; Mark 10:8; Eph. 5:31; Cited from Gen. 2:24

1 Corinthians 6:16

16 Or do you not know that he who is joined ^{▼▼Or who holds fast (compare Genesis 2:24 and Deuteronomy 10:20); also verse 17} to a prostitute becomes one body with her? For, as it is written, ^b“The two will become one flesh.”

1 Corinthians 7:2

2 But because of the temptation to sexual immorality, each man should have his own wife and each woman her own husband.

1 Corinthians 7:4

4 For the wife does not have authority over her own body, but the husband does. Likewise the husband does not have authority over his own body, but the wife does.