1 Corinthians 3:16 “Do you not know that you yourselves are God’s temple, and that God’s S…”

1 Corinthians 3:16

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

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you?

World English Bible

Don’t you know that you are God’s temple and that God’s Spirit lives in you?

American Standard Version

Know ye not that ye are a temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you?

Geneva Bible 1599

Knowe ye not that ye are the Temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you?

Darby Translation

Do ye not know that ye are [the] temple of God, and [that] the Spirit of God dwells in you?

Young's Literal Translation

have ye not known that ye are a sanctuary of God, and the Spirit of God doth dwell in you?

Bible in Basic English

Do you not see that you are God's holy house, and that the Spirit of God has his place in you?

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Cross references

“Know”

1 Corinthians 6:19 Romans 6:3 1 Corinthians 9:24 1 Corinthians 9:13 1 Corinthians 6:16 1 Corinthians 6:9

1 Corinthians 6:19 · 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;

Romans 6:3 · BSB

Or aren’t you aware that all of us who were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into His death?

1 Corinthians 9:24 · BSB

Do you not know that in a race all the runners run, but only one receives the prize? Run in such a way as to take the prize.

1 Corinthians 9:13 · BSB

Do you not know that those who work in the temple eat of its food, and those who serve at the altar partake of its offerings?

1 Corinthians 6:16 · BSB

Or don’t you know that he who unites himself with a prostitute is one with her in body? For it is said, “The two will become one flesh.”

1 Corinthians 6:9 · BSB

Do you not know that the wicked will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: Neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor men who submit to or perform homosexual acts,

“ye are”

2 Corinthians 6:16 1 Peter 2:5 Hebrews 3:6 Ephesians 2:21 Ephesians 2:22

2 Corinthians 6:16 · BSB

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.”

1 Peter 2:5 · BSB

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.

Hebrews 3:6 · BSB

But Christ is faithful as the Son over God’s house. And we are His house, if we hold firmly to our confidence and the hope of which we boast.

Ephesians 2:21 · BSB

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

Ephesians 2:22 · BSB

And in Him you too are being built together into a dwelling place for God in His Spirit.

“the Spirit”

Ezekiel 36:27 Romans 8:11 John 14:17 2 Timothy 1:14 1 John 4:12 1 John 4:15

Ezekiel 36:27 · BSB

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

Romans 8:11 · BSB

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.

John 14:17 · BSB

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.

2 Timothy 1:14 · BSB

Guard the treasure entrusted to you, with the help of the Holy Spirit who dwells in us.

1 John 4:12 · BSB

No one has ever seen God; but if we love one another, God remains in us, and His love is perfected in us.

1 John 4:15 · BSB

If anyone confesses that Jesus is the Son of God, God abides in him, and he in God.

Also

Romans 8:9

Romans 8:9 · BSB

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.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

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

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

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