Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you?
Parallel translations
- WEB Don’t you know that you are a temple of God, and that God’s Spirit lives in you?
- BSB Do you not know that you yourselves are God’s temple, and that God’s Spirit dwells in you?
- NKJV Do you not know that you are the temple of God and that the Spirit of God dwells in you?
- NASB Do you not know that you are a temple of God and that the Spirit of God dwells in you?
- NLT Don’t you realize that all of you together are the temple of God and that the Spirit of God lives in you?
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The Corinthian church is God's temple, indwelt by His Spirit. Together they are the holy dwelling place of God.
Overview
Paul declares that the church corporately is 'a temple of God,' where the Spirit dwells. This astonishing truth elevates the local congregation to the place of God's special presence, once located in Jerusalem's temple. It grounds the warning that follows: to harm the church is to assault God's own dwelling.
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- 1 Cor 6:19What? 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?
- Ezek 36:27And I will put my spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes, and ye shall keep my judgments, and do them.
- 2 Cor 6:16And what agreement hath the temple of God with idols? for ye are the temple of the living God; as God hath said, I will dwell in them, and walk in them; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people.
- Rom 8:11But if the Spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the dead dwell in you, he that raised up Christ from the dead shall also quicken your mortal bodies by his Spirit that dwelleth in you.
- Eph 2:21–22In whom all the building fitly framed together groweth unto an holy temple in the Lord:
- Rom 8:9But ye are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if so be that the Spirit of God dwell in you. Now if any man have not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of his.
- John 14:17Even the Spirit of truth; whom the world cannot receive, because it seeth him not, neither knoweth him: but ye know him; for he dwelleth with you, and shall be in you.
- 1 Pet 2:5Ye also, as lively stones, are built up a spiritual house, an holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God by Jesus Christ.
- 2 Tim 1:14That good thing which was committed unto thee keep by the Holy Ghost which dwelleth in us.
- 1 Jn 4:15–16Whosoever shall confess that Jesus is the Son of God, God dwelleth in him, and he in God.
- Heb 3:6But Christ as a son over his own house; whose house are we, if we hold fast the confidence and the rejoicing of the hope firm unto the end.
- 1 Jn 4:12No man hath seen God at any time. If we love one another, God dwelleth in us, and his love is perfected in us.
- Rom 6:3Know ye not, that so many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ were baptized into his death?
- 1 Cor 9:24Know ye not that they which run in a race run all, but one receiveth the prize? So run, that ye may obtain.
- 1 Cor 9:13Do ye not know that they which minister about holy things live of the things of the temple? and they which wait at the altar are partakers with the altar?
- 1 Cor 6:2–3Do ye not know that the saints shall judge the world? and if the world shall be judged by you, are ye unworthy to judge the smallest matters?
- 1 Cor 6:16What? know ye not that he which is joined to an harlot is one body? for two, saith he, shall be one flesh.
- 1 Cor 6:9Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind,
- 1 Cor 5:6Your glorying is not good. Know ye not that a little leaven leaveneth the whole lump?
- Jas 4:4Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world is the enemy of God.
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