1 Corinthians 6:15, Your Bodies Are Members of Christ

1 Corinthians 6:15 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.

Matthew Poole said well, “Christ is united to the person of the believer, and He is the Head of the church, which is His mystical body; so that the bodies of believers are in a sense the members of Christ, and should be used by us as the members of Christ, which we should not rend from Him: but he that doth commit fornication, rends his body from Christ, and maketh it the member of an harlot; for as the man and wife are one flesh by Divine ordination, Genesis 2:24, so the fornicater and the harlot are one flesh by an impure” union.

The believer is jolted to consider his privilege as being called out by God from sin unto holiness through Jesus Christ. And he should no longer serve sin. Rather he is to live in intimate fellowship with God through prayer and the study of His Word. He is given by God the spiritual strength to overcome and live a life of purity.

Truly, blessed are the pure, for they shall see God. Amen.