1 Corinthians 6:19
17 But he who unites himself with the Lord is one with Him in spirit.
18 Flee from sexual immorality. Every other sin a man can commit is outside his body, but he who sins sexually sins against his own body.
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;
20 you were bought at a price. Therefore glorify God with your body.
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
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- BSB
- 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;
- KJV
- 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?
- WEB
- Or don’t you know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have from God? You are not your own,
- ASV
- Or know ye not that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit which is in you, which ye have from God? and ye are not your own;
- DARBY
- Do ye not know that your body is [the] temple of the Holy Spirit which [is] in you, which ye have of God; and ye are not your own?
- BLB
- Or do you⁺ not know that your⁺ body is a temple of the Holy Spirit in you⁺, whom you⁺ have from God? And you⁺ are not your own,
- ÅB
- Eller vet dere ikke at deres legeme er et tempel for den Hellige Ånd, som bor i dere, og som dere har fra Gud, og at dere ikke hører dere selv til?
- OTB
- Eller er dere ikke klar over at kroppen deres er et tempel for Den Hellige Ånd i dere, som dere har mottatt fra Gud, og at dere ikke tilhører dere selv?
- B1930
- Eller vet I ikke at eders legeme er et tempel for den Hellige Ånd, som bor i eder, og som I har fra Gud, og at I ikke hører eder selv til?
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
1 Corinthians 3:16
Do you not know that you yourselves are God’s temple, and that God’s Spirit dwells in you?
Read in context2 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.”
Read in context1 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.
Read in contextEphesians 2:21–22
In Him the whole building is fitted together and grows into a holy temple in the Lord.
Read in context1 Corinthians 6:15–16
Do you not know that your bodies are members of Christ? Shall I then take the members of Christ and unite them with a prostitute? Never!
Read in contextPsalms 100:3
Know that the LORD is God. It is He who made us, and we are His; we are His people, and the sheep of His pasture.
Read in contextTitus 2:14
He gave Himself for us to redeem us from all lawlessness and to purify for Himself a people for His own possession, zealous for good deeds.
Read in contextRomans 14:7–9
For none of us lives to himself alone, and none of us dies to himself alone.
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