1 Corinthians 6:19

Or do you not know that your bodies are a sanctuary of the Holy Spirit who is within you--the Spirit whom you have from God?

Weymouth NT (1912)

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 fornication. Any other sin that a human being commits lies outside the body; but he who commits fornication sins against his own body.

20And you are not your own, for you have been redeemed at infinite cost. Therefore glorify God in your bodies.

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Cross References

John 2:21But He was speaking of the Sanctuary of His body.

1 Corinthians 3:16Do you not know that you are God's Sanctuary, and that the Spirit of God has His home within you?

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

Ephesians 2:21in union with whom the whole fabric, fitted and closely joined together, is growing so as to form a holy sanctuary 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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