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.
Cross-reference
1 Corinthians 6:19 reinforces that our bodies belong to God as temples of the Holy Spirit, paralleling the claim in 6:15 that they are members of Christ.
1 Corinthians 6:9 lists the sexually immoral who won't inherit the kingdom — the warning that drives Paul's argument in verse 15.
In 1 Corinthians 12:27, Paul explicitly identifies believers as Christ's body and individual members — the same 'members of Christ' concept.
Romans 12:5 echoes being one body in Christ and individually members of one another, reinforcing the corporate identity of believers.
Ephesians 1:23 identifies the church as Christ's body, the fullness of him — directly linking to believers as members of that body.
Ephesians 4:16 describes the whole body joined together with each part working, showing how members function collectively.
Ephesians 5:23 compares marriage to Christ and the church, calling the church his body — reinforcing the body metaphor.
Ephesians 5:30 explicitly states 'we are members of his body' — a direct parallel to the idea of believers as members of Christ.
Colossians 2:19 describes the whole body nourished and knit together from the head, showing the organic unity of members.
Romans 6:3 explains baptism into Christ's death — the basis for believers being members of Christ and why they must not sin.
Romans 6:13 commands not offering body parts to sin but to God — directly parallel to not taking Christ's members for prostitution.
2 Corinthians 12:21 shows Paul mourning over unrepentant fornication — directly echoing the sexual sin warned against here.
1 Thessalonians 4:4 instructs believers to control their bodies in sanctification — a direct parallel to the call for sexual purity here.
Hebrews 12:16 warns against fornication using Esau as an example — reinforcing the same moral imperative against sexual immorality.
Ephesians 4:15 calls believers to grow into Christ the head, extending the metaphor of members united to the head.