1 Corinthians 6:19

Or are you not conscious that your body is a house for the Holy Spirit which is in you, and which has been given to you by God? and you are not the owners of yourselves;

Bible in Basic English

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

18Keep away from the desires of the flesh. Every sin which a man does is outside of the body; but he who goes after the desires of the flesh does evil to his body.

20For a payment has been made for you: let God be honoured in your body.

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Cross References

1 Kings 20:4And the king of Israel sent him an answer saying, As you say, my lord king, I am yours with all I have.

Psalms 12:4\12:3\The smooth lips and the tongue of pride will be cut off by the Lord.

John 2:21But his words were about that holy building which was his body.

1 Corinthians 3:16Do you not see that you are God's holy house, and that the Spirit of God has his place in you?

2 Corinthians 5:15And that he underwent death for all, so that the living might no longer be living to themselves, but to him who underwent death for them and came back from the dead.

Ephesians 2:21In whom all the building, rightly joined together, comes to be a holy house of God 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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