6:16a Or don’t you know that he who unites himself with a prostitute is one with her in body?

Do you not know that when you join yourself to a prostitute, you unite your body with hers?
-or-
You must/surely know that when a person has sex with an immoral person, the two of them become one person/body.
-or-
Do not forget that when a man has relations with a prostitute, he and the prostitute have become like one person.

6:16b For it is said,

This is written ⌊in God’s Book⌋ :
-or-

⌊I say that⌋ because the Scriptures say:

6:16c “The two will become one flesh.”

“The two people will become like one person/body.”
-or-
“The man and woman will unite and become as one.”

© 1998, 2019, 2020, 2022, 2023 by SIL International®
Made available under the terms of a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License (CC BY-SA) creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0.
All Scripture quotations in this publication, unless otherwise indicated, are from The Holy Bible, Berean Standard Bible.
BSB is produced in cooperation with Bible Hub, Discovery Bible, OpenBible.com, and the Berean Bible Translation Committee.