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1 Corinthians 3:16

Don’t you know that you are God’s Temple, and that God’s Spirit has his home in you?

Open English Bible (US)

In The King James Version

Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you?

In Context

15If anyone’s work is burnt up, they will suffer loss; though they themselves will escape, but only as one who has passed through fire.

17If any one destroys the Temple of God, God will destroy them; for the Temple of God is sacred, and so also are you.

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Cross References

John 14:17The world cannot receive this Spirit, because it does not see him or recognize him, but you recognize him, because he is always with you, and is within you.

Romans 8:9You, however, are not earthly but spiritual, since the Spirit of God lives within you. Unless a person has the Spirit of Christ, they do not belong to Christ;

1 Corinthians 5:6Your boasting is unseemly. Don’t you know that even a little yeast leavens all the dough?

1 Corinthians 6:9Don’t you know that wrongdoers will have no share in God’s kingdom? Do not be deceived. No one who is immoral, or an idolater, or an adulterer, or licentious, or a sexual pervert,

1 Corinthians 6:19Again, don’t you know that your body is a shrine of the Holy Spirit that is within you – the Spirit which you have from God?

1 Corinthians 9:24Don’t you know that on a racecourse, though all run, yet only one wins the prize? Run in such a way that you may win.

Matthew Henry on 1 Corinthians 3:12-16

The Spiritual Foundation. ( a. d. 57.) 11 For other foundation can no man lay than that is laid, which is Jesus Christ. 12 Now if any man build upon this foundation gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, stubble; 13 Every man's work shall be made manifest: for the day shall declare it, because it shall be revealed by fire; and the fire shall try every man's work of what sort it is. 14 If any man's work abide which he hath built thereupon, he shall receive a reward. 15 If any man's work shall be burned, he shall… Read the whole commentary →

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