1 Corinthians 6:15 (WEB)
Don’t you know that your bodies are members of Christ? Shall I then take the members of Christ and make them members of a prostitute? May it never be!
Catechism · 3
"I Believe in the Resurrection of the Body"
“So glorify God in your body.” — Catechism footnote: 1 Cor 6:13-15, 19-20.
The Sacrament of Baptism
“Baptism not only purifies from all sins, but also makes the neophyte "a new creature," an adopted son of God, who has become a "partaker of the divine nature," member of Christ and coheir with him,” — Catechism footnote: Cf. 1 Cor 6:15; 12:27; Rom 8:17.
The Church - People of God, Body of Christ, Temple of the Holy Spirit
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“The Apostle speaks of the whole Church and of each of the faithful, members of his Body, as a bride "betrothed" to Christ the Lord so as to become but one spirit with him.” — Catechism footnote: Cf. Mt 22:1-14; 25:1-13; 1 Cor 6:15-17; 2 Cor 11:2.
Fathers and councils · 18
John Chrysostom
“The woman who dwelleth with an unbeliever is not impure; (“for,” It saith, “the unbelieving husband is sanctified by the wife”— 1 Cor. vi. 15 ;) not so with the harlot; but what?” — the author cites it
Read the whole comment“Nay, that awful thing befalls thee, that thou “makest the members of Christ members of an harlot.”” — editor's note: 1 Cor. vi. 15.
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Basil the Great
“You have taken the members of Christ and made them the members of a harlot.” — editor's note: 1 Cor. vi. 15.
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Jerome
“…and have been confined in bodies as in barrows or tombs, to pay the penalty for their former sins; and that the bodies of believers are not temples of Christ, but prisons of the condemned?” — editor's note: 1 Cor. vi. 15, 19.
Read the whole comment“Every sin that a man doeth is without the body; but he that committeth fornication sinneth against his own body,” and so on.” — editor's note: 1 Cor. vi. 13–18.
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Augustine of Hippo
““Know ye not,” saith he, “that your bodies are members of Christ?”” — editor's note: 1 Cor. vi. 15
Read the whole comment“…for the avoiding of fornication, wherein assuredly he was addressing married persons also, he saith, “Know ye not that your bodies are the members of Christ?”” — editor's note: 1 Cor. vi. 15
Read the whole comment“Far be it.”” — editor's note: 1 Cor. vi. 15. [See R.V.]
Read the whole comment“And accordingly the apostle says, “Therefore glorify God in your body.”” — editor's note: 1 Cor. vi. 19, 15, 20
Read the whole comment“Of which body he says in another place: “Know ye not that your bodies are the members of Christ?”” — editor's note: 1 Cor. vi. 15
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Tertullian
“It did not bear the names of “body of Christ,” of “members of Christ,” of “temple of God,” at the time when it used to obtain pardon for adultery.” — editor's note: Ib. and vi. 15.
Read the whole comment“Flee fornication.”” — editor's note: 1 Cor. vi. 15–17.
Read the whole comment“However, let me meanwhile add that in the same passage Paul “carries about in his body the marks of the Lord Jesus;” he also forbids our body to be profaned, as being “the temple of God;” he makes our bodies “the members of Christ;” and he exhorts us to exalt and “glorify God in our body.”” — editor's note: 1 Cor. vi. 15.
Read the whole comment“But your own apostle, you know, does not permit “the members of Christ to be joined to a harlot.”” — editor's note: 1 Cor. vi. 15.
Read the whole comment“And suitably does he add the question: “Know ye not that your bodies are the members of Christ?”” — editor's note: 1 Cor. vi. 15.
Read the whole comment- Tertullian, To His Wife II.3Book II
“The admission of a strange man (to your couch) less violates “the temple of God,” less commingles “the members of Christ” with the members of an adulteress.” — editor's note: 1 Cor. vi. 15.
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Clement of Alexandria
““Nor,” as Paul says, “is it meet to make the members of Christ the members of an harlot; nor must the temple of God be made the temple of base affections.”” — editor's note: 1 Cor. vi. 15.
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Cyprian of Carthage
“But he who is joined to the Lord is one spirit.”” — editor's note: 1 Cor. vi. 15–17.
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Cross-references · 22
Cited together in Three Books of Testimonies Against the Jews III.63.
Cited together in Three Books of Testimonies Against the Jews III.63.
Cited together in On Continence Chapter 24.
Cited together in On Continence Chapter 24.
Cited together in On Continence Chapter 24.
Cited together in On Continence Chapter 24.
Cited together in Catechism §1265.
Cited together in Catechism §1265.
Cited together in Three Books of Testimonies Against the Jews III.63.
Cited together in Catechism §1265.
Cited together in Catechism §1265.
Cited together in Catechism §1265.
Cited together in Catechism §1265.
Cited together in Three Books of Testimonies Against the Jews III.63.
Cited together in Three Books of Testimonies Against the Jews III.63.
Cited together in On the Resurrection of the Flesh Chapter 10.
Cited together in To His Wife II.3.
Cited together in Catechism §1265.
Cited together in On the Good of Widowhood Chapter 4.
Cited together in On the Good of Widowhood Chapter 4.
Cited together in On the Resurrection of the Flesh Chapter 10 and 2 other places.
Cited together in To His Wife II.3.