1 Corinthians 3:17
If anyone makes the house of God unclean, God will put an end to him; for the house of God is holy, and you are his house.
Bible in Basic English
In The King James Version
In Context
16Do you not see that you are God's holy house, and that the Spirit of God has his place in you?
Cross References
Exodus 3:5And he said, Do not come near: take off your shoes from your feet, for the place where you are is holy.
Leviticus 20:3And my face will be turned against that man, and he will be cut off from his people; because he has given his offspring to Molech, making my holy place unclean, and making my holy name common.
1 Chronicles 29:3And because this house of God is dear to me, I give my private store of gold and silver to the house of my God, in addition to all I have got ready for the holy house;
Psalms 79:1A Psalm. Of Asaph. O God, the nations have come into your heritage; they have made your holy Temple unclean; they have made Jerusalem a mass of broken walls.
Psalms 99:9Give high honour to the Lord our God, worshipping with your faces turned to his holy hill; for the Lord our God is holy.
Ezekiel 5:11For this cause, by my life, says the Lord, because you have made my holy place unclean with all your hated things and all your disgusting ways, you will become disgusting to me; my eye will have no mercy and I will have no pity.
Matthew Henry on 1 Corinthians 3:17-18
Holiness Prescribed. ( a. d. 57.) 16 Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you? 17 If any man defile the temple of God, him shall God destroy; for the temple of God is holy, which temple ye are. Here the apostle resumes his argument and exhortation, founding it on his former allusion, You are God's building, v. 9 , and here, Know you not that you are the temple of God, and the Spirit of God dwelleth in you? If any man defile (corrupt and destroy) the temple of God, him… Read the whole commentary →