1 Corinthians 6:19

Do you not know that your body is a sanctuary of the Holy Spirit who is within you, the Spirit whom you have from God?

Montgomery New Testament

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 from immorality. Every other sin that a man commits lies outside the body, but the immoral man sins against his own body.

20You are not your own; for you have been bought with a price, therefore glorify God in your bodies.

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Cross References

John 2:21But he was speaking about the temple of his body; and when the disciples recalled what he had said,

1 Corinthians 3:16Do you not know what you are God’s sanctuary, and that the Spirit of God is dwelling within you?

2 Corinthians 5:15and that he died for all in order that the living may live no longer for themselves, but for Him who died and rose again for them.

Ephesians 2:21In him the whole building, fitly framed together, rises 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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