1 Corinthians 6:19

Or 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,

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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

18Flee sexual immorality! “Every sin that a man does is outside the body,” but he who commits sexual immorality sins against his own body.

20for you were bought with a price. Therefore glorify God in your body and in your spirit, which are God’s.

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Cross References

1 Kings 20:4The king of Israel answered, “It is according to your saying, my lord, O king. I am yours, and all that I have.”

Psalms 12:4who have said, “With our tongue we will prevail. Our lips are our own. Who is lord over us?”

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

1 Corinthians 3:16Don’t you know that you are God’s temple and that God’s Spirit lives in you?

2 Corinthians 5:15He died for all, that those who live should no longer live to themselves, but to him who for their sakes died and rose again.

Ephesians 2:21in whom the whole building, fitted together, grows into 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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