1 Corinthians 6:19

Again, 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?

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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

18Shun all immorality. Every other sin that people commit is something outside the body; but an immoral person sins against their own body.

20Moreover, you are not your own masters; you were bought, and the price was paid. Therefore, honor God in your bodies.

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Cross References

Psalms 12:4they declare, “Our tongue is our strength, our allies our lips: who is lord over us?”

John 2:21But Jesus was speaking of his body as a temple.

1 Corinthians 3:16Don’t you know that you are God’s Temple, and that God’s Spirit has his home in you?

2 Corinthians 5:15and that he died for all, so that the living should no longer live for themselves, but for him who died and rose for them.

Ephesians 2:21United in him, every part of the building, closely joined together, will grow into a temple, consecrated by its union with 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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