1 Corinthians 6:19

Knowe yee not, that your body is the temple of the holy Ghost, which is in you, whom ye haue of God? and yee are not your owne.

Geneva Bible 1599

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: euery sinne that a man doeth, is without the bodie: but hee that committeth fornication, sinneth against his owne bodie.

20For yee are bought for a price: therefore glorifie God in your bodie, and in your spirit: for they are Gods.

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Cross References

1 Kings 20:4And the King of Israel answered, and sayd, My lord King, according to thy saying, I am thine, and all that I haue.

Psalms 12:4Which haue saide, With our tongue will we preuaile: our lippes are our owne: who is Lord ouer vs?

John 2:21But he spake of the temple of his bodie.

1 Corinthians 3:16Knowe ye not that ye are the Temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you?

2 Corinthians 5:15Because we thus iudge, that if one be dead for all, then were all dead, and he died for all, that they which liue, shoulde not henceforth liue vnto themselues, but vnto him which died for them, and rose againe.

Ephesians 2:21In whom all the building coupled together, groweth vnto an 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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