1 Corinthians 3:16
Don’t you know that you are God’s temple and that God’s Spirit lives in you?
World English Bible
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 any man’s work is burned, he will suffer loss, but he himself will be saved, but as through fire.
17If anyone destroys God’s temple, God will destroy him; for God’s temple is holy, which you are.
Cross References
John 14:17the Spirit of truth, whom the world can’t receive, for it doesn’t see him and doesn’t know him. You know him, for he lives with you and will be in you.
Romans 8:9But you are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if it is so that the Spirit of God dwells in you. But if any man doesn’t have the Spirit of Christ, he is not his.
1 Corinthians 5:6Your boasting is not good. Don’t you know that a little yeast leavens the whole lump?
1 Corinthians 6:9Or don’t you know that the unrighteous will not inherit God’s Kingdom? Don’t be deceived. Neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor male prostitutes, nor homosexuals,
1 Corinthians 6:19Or don’t you know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have from God? You are not your own,
1 Corinthians 9:24Don’t you know that those who run in a race all run, but one receives the prize? Run like that, so 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 →