1 Corinthians 6:19

Do ye not know that your body is [the] temple of the Holy Spirit which [is] in you, which ye have of God; and ye are not your own?

Darby Translation

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

18Flee fornication. Every sin which a man may practise is without the body, but he that commits fornication sins against his own body.

20for ye have been bought with a price: glorify now then God in your body.

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Cross References

1 Kings 20:4And the king of Israel answered and said, My lord, O king, according to thy saying, I am thine, and all that I have.

Psalms 12:4Who have said, With our tongue will we prevail, our lips are our own: who [is] lord over us?

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

1 Corinthians 3:16Do ye not know that ye are [the] temple of God, and [that] the Spirit of God dwells in you?

2 Corinthians 5:15and he died for all, that they who live should no longer live to themselves, but to him who died for them and has been raised.

Ephesians 2:21in whom all [the] building fitted together increases to 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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