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Know ye not that your bodies are the members of Christ? shall I then take the members of Christ, and make [them] the members of an harlot? God forbid.

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Translations

Louis Segond 1910

Ne savez-vous pas que vos corps sont des membres de Christ? Prendrai-je donc les membres de Christ, pour en faire les membres d'une prostituée? Loin de là!

KJV

Know ye not that your bodies are the members of Christ? shall I then take the members of Christ, and make [them] the members of an harlot? God forbid.

Patristic reading

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  • Thomas Aquinas

    Summa Theologica

    ace, as appears from what was said in the foregoing Article. It is also against Christ, according to 1 Cor. 6:15, "Shall I . . . take the members of Christ, and make them the members of a harlot?" Therefore fornication is the most grievous of sins. On the contrary, Gregory says (…
  • Thomas Aquinas

    Summa Theologica

    harlot is made one body." Now a man cannot at once be a member of a harlot and a member of Christ ( 1 Cor. 6:15 ). Therefore the husband who is joined to a wife guilty of fornication ceases to be a member of Christ, and therefore sins mortally. Objection 4: Further, just as relat…
  • Various

    Patrologia Latina Vol. 105 (Migne)

    debat. Et quia non est, juxta Apostolum, conventio Christi ad Belial, nec societas luci ad tenebras (I Cor. VI, 15) , egrediantur [Col. 0225C] tenebrae et lux vera Christus ingrediatur. Qui et in Zacharia typice propter peccata nostra, quae in corpore suo portavit, sordida vesti…

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