1 Corinthians 6:19

Know you not that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit, which you have from God, and that you are not your own?

Henry Tompkins Anderson’s 1864 New Testament

In The King James Version

What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own?

In Context

18Shun lewdness. Every sin that a man commits, is without the body; but he that is guilty of lewdness sins against his own body.

20For you have been bought with a price: therefore, glorify God in your body.

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Cross References

John 2:21But he spoke of the temple of his body.

1 Corinthians 3:16Know you not that you are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwells in you?

2 Corinthians 5:15and he died for all, that those who live should no more live for themselves, but for him who died for them, and rose again.

Ephesians 2:21in whom the whole building, compactly fitted together, grows into a holy temple in the Lord;

Matthew Henry on 1 Corinthians 6:13-20

Against Fornication. ( a. d. 57.) 12 All things are lawful unto me, but all things are not expedient: all things are lawful for me, but I will not be brought under the power of any. 13 Meats for the belly, and the belly for meats: but God shall destroy both it and them. Now the body is not for fornication, but for the Lord; and the Lord for the body. 14 And God hath both raised up the Lord, and will also raise up us by his own power. 15 Know ye not that your bodies are the members of Christ? shall I then take the… Read the whole commentary →

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