1Cor 6:16, Jam 3:6 | 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.”

James 3:6

6 And ^cthe tongue is a fire, a world of unrighteousness. The tongue is set among our members, ^dstaining the whole body, setting on fire the entire course of life, ^{▼▼Or wheel of birth} and set on fire by hell. ^{▼▼Greek Gehenna}