1 Corinthians 6:19

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

The New Testament, American Bible Union (1865)

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 that a man commits is without the body; but he that commits fornication, sins against his own body.

20For ye are bought with a price; therefore glorify God in your body.

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Cross References

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

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

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

Ephesians 2:21in whom all the building, fitly framed together, grows unto 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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