16 Or do you not know that he who is joined¹ to a prostitute becomes one body with her? For, as it is written, ^l“The two will become one flesh.”

15 ^aDid he not make them one, with a portion of the Spirit in their union?¹ And what was the one God² seeking?^{3 b}Godly offspring. So guard yourselves⁴ in your spirit, and let none of you be ^tfaithless to the wife of your youth.