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;
Parallel translations
- 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,
- 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?
- NKJV Or do you not know that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have from God, and you are not your own?
- NASB Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit within you, whom you have from God, and that you are not your own?
- NLT Don’t you realize that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit, who lives in you and was given to you by God? You do not belong to yourself,
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Quick answer
Your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit, given by God, so you are not your own. It matters because the indwelling Spirit makes the body sacred and accountable to God.
Overview
Paul gives the climactic reason for purity: the believer's body is a sanctuary where God's Spirit dwells. As a temple housing God's presence, it is holy and not ours to misuse. The truth 'you are not your own' overturns the autonomy the Corinthians claimed and roots Christian ethics in belonging wholly to God.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 13
- 1 Cor 3:16Do you not know that you yourselves are God’s temple, and that God’s Spirit dwells in you?
- 2 Cor 6:16What 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.”
- 1 Pet 2:5you 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.
- Eph 2:21–22In Him the whole building is fitted together and grows into a holy temple in the Lord.
- Ps 100:3Know 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.
- 1 Cor 6:15–16Do 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!
- Titus 2:14He 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.
- Rom 14:7–9For none of us lives to himself alone, and none of us dies to himself alone.
- John 2:21But Jesus was speaking about the temple of His body.
- 2 Cor 5:15And He died for all, that those who live should no longer live for themselves, but for Him who died for them and was raised again.
- 1 Kgs 20:4And the king of Israel replied, “Just as you say, my lord the king: I am yours, along with all that I have.”
- Ps 12:4They say, “With our tongues we will prevail. We own our lips—who can be our master?”
- 1 Chr 29:14But who am I, and who are my people, that we should be able to give as generously as this? For everything comes from You, and from Your own hand we have given to You.
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