1 Corinthians 6:19

Have ye not known that your body is a sanctuary of the Holy Spirit in you, which ye have from God? and ye are not your own,

Young's Literal Translation

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 the whoredom; every sin — whatever a man may commit — is without the body, and he who is committing whoredom, against his own body doth sin.

20for ye were bought with a price; glorify, then, God in your body and in your spirit, which are God's.

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Cross References

1 Kings 20:4And the king of Israel answereth and saith, 'According to thy word, my lord, O king: I [am] thine, and all that I have.'

Psalms 12:4Who said, 'By our tongue we do mightily: Our lips [are] our own; who [is] lord over us?'

John 2:21but he spake concerning the sanctuary of his body;

1 Corinthians 3:16have ye not known that ye are a sanctuary of God, and the Spirit of God doth dwell in you?

2 Corinthians 5:15and for all he died, that those living, no more to themselves may live, but to him who died for them, and was raised again.

Ephesians 2:21in whom all the building fitly framed together doth increase to an 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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