1 Corinthians 6:19

Or know you not, that your members are the temple of the Holy Ghost, who is in you, whom you have from God; and you are not your own ?

Douay-Rheims 1899

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

18Fly fornication. Every sin that a man doth, is without the body; but he that committeth fornication, sinneth against his own body.

20For you are bought with a great price. Glorify and bear God in your body.

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Cross References

1 Kings 20:4And the king of Israel answered: According to thy word, my lord 0 king, I am thine, and all that I have.

Psalms 12:4May the Lord destroy all deceitful lips, and the tongue that speaketh proud things.

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 dwelleth in you ?

2 Corinthians 5:15And Christ died for all; that they also who live, may not now live to themselves, but unto him who died for them, and rose again.

Ephesians 2:21In whom all the building, being framed together, groweth up into an 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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