1 Corinthians 6:19

Or know ye not that your body is a temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have from God? and ye are not your own;

Revised Version 1895

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. Every sin that a man doeth is without the body; but he that committeth fornication sinneth against his own body.

20for ye were bought with a price: glorify God therefore in your body.

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Cross References

1 Kings 20:4And the king of Israel answered and said, It is according to thy saying, my lord, O king; I am thine, and all that I have.

Psalms 12:4Who have said, with our tongue will we prevail; our lips are our own: who is lord over us?

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

1 Corinthians 3:16Know ye not that ye are a temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you?

2 Corinthians 5:15and he died for all, that they which live should no longer live unto themselves, but unto him who for their sakes died and rose again.

Ephesians 2:21in whom each several building, fitly framed together, groweth 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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