1 Corinthians 3:16

14 If what he has built survives, he will receive a reward.

15 If it is burned up, he will suffer loss. He himself will be saved, but only as if through the flames.

Do you not know that you yourselves are God’s temple, and that God’s Spirit dwells in you?

17 If anyone destroys God’s temple, God will destroy him; for God’s temple is holy, and you are that temple.

18 Let no one deceive himself. If any of you thinks he is wise in this age, he should become a fool, so that he may become wise.

Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.

Compare

BSB
Do you not know that you yourselves are God’s temple, and that God’s Spirit dwells in you?
KJV
Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you?
WEB
Don’t you know that you are God’s temple and that God’s Spirit lives in you?
ASV
Know ye not that ye are a temple of God, and [that] the Spirit of God dwelleth in you?
DARBY
Do ye not know that ye are [the] temple of God, and [that] the Spirit of God dwells in you?
BLB
Do you⁺ not know that you⁺ are God’s temple, and the Spirit of God dwells in you⁺?
ÅB
Vet dere ikke at dere er Guds tempel, og at Guds Ånd bor i dere?
OTB
Er dere ikke klar over at dere er Guds tempel og at Guds Ånd bor i dere?
B1930
Vet I ikke at I er Guds tempel, og at Guds Ånd bor i eder?

Study notes (Tyndale)

Original text and word study

Cross references

  • 1 Corinthians 6:19

    Do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have received from God? You are not your own;

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  • Ezekiel 36:27

    And I will put My Spirit within you and cause you to walk in My statutes and to carefully observe My ordinances.

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  • 2 Corinthians 6:16

    What agreement can exist between the temple of God and idols? For we are the temple of the living God. As God has said: “I will dwell with them and walk among them, and I will be their God, and they will be My people.”

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  • Romans 8:11

    And if the Spirit of Him who raised Jesus from the dead is living in you, He who raised Christ Jesus from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through His Spirit, who lives in you.

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  • Ephesians 2:21–22

    In Him the whole building is fitted together and grows into a holy temple in the Lord.

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  • Romans 8:9

    You, however, are controlled not by the flesh, but by the Spirit, if the Spirit of God lives in you. And if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, he does not belong to Christ.

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  • John 14:17

    the Spirit of truth. The world cannot receive Him, because it neither sees Him nor knows Him. But you do know Him, for He abides with you and will be in you.

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  • 1 Peter 2:5

    you also, like living stones, are being built into a spiritual house to be a holy priesthood, offering spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.

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