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1 Corinthians 3:16

Know ye not that ye are a temple of God and the Spirit of God dwells in you?

A Conservative Version

In The King James Version

Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you?

In Context

15If any man's work will be burned, he will suffer loss, but he himself will be saved, but so as through fire.

17If any man destroys the temple of God, God will destroy this man, for the temple of God is holy, which ye are.

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Cross References

John 14:17the Spirit of truth, which the world cannot receive, because it does not see nor know it. But ye know it, because it dwells with you, and will be in you.

Romans 8:9But ye are not in flesh but in Spirit, if indeed the Spirit of God dwells in you. But if any man does not have the Spirit of Christ, this man is not of him.

1 Corinthians 5:6Your boasting is not good. Know ye not that a little leaven leavens the whole lump?

1 Corinthians 6:9Or know ye not that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not led astray. Neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate men, nor homosexuals,

1 Corinthians 6:19Or know ye not that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit in you, which ye have from God? And ye are not your own,

1 Corinthians 9:24Know ye not that those who run in an arena, indeed all run, but one receives the prize? So run that ye may seize it.

Matthew Henry on 1 Corinthians 3:12-16

The Spiritual Foundation. ( a. d. 57.) 11 For other foundation can no man lay than that is laid, which is Jesus Christ. 12 Now if any man build upon this foundation gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, stubble; 13 Every man's work shall be made manifest: for the day shall declare it, because it shall be revealed by fire; and the fire shall try every man's work of what sort it is. 14 If any man's work abide which he hath built thereupon, he shall receive a reward. 15 If any man's work shall be burned, he shall… Read the whole commentary →

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