1 Corinthians 3:16

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

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

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Οὐκ οἴδατε ὅτι ναὸς Θεοῦ ἐστε, καὶ τὸ Πνεῦμα τοῦ Θεοῦ οἰκεῖ ἐν ὑμῖν;

Transliteration

Not you oidate that naos Theou este, and the Pneuma tou Theou oikei in you?

Grammar Details

• *oidate*: perfect active indicative, 2nd person plural - you know
• *naos*: noun, masculine, nominative, singular - temple/sanctuary
• *Theou*: noun, masculine, genitive, singular - of God
• *este*: present active indicative, 2nd person plural - you are
• *Pneuma*: noun, neuter, nominative, singular - Spirit
• *tou Theou*: noun, masculine, genitive, singular - of God
• *oikei*: present active indicative, 3rd person singular - dwells

Word Meanings

• *oidate*: know/understand/perceive
• *naos*: temple/sanctuary/shrine
• *Pneuma*: Spirit/breath/wind
• *oikei*: dwells/resides/inhabits

Referenced Verses

• 1 Cor 6:19 : 19 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;
• Ezek 36:27 : 27 And I will put my Spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes, and ye shall keep mine ordinances, and do them.
• Rom 8:9 : 9 But ye are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if so be that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you. But if any man hath not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of his.
• 2 Cor 6:16 : 16 And what agreement hath a temple of God with idols? for we are a temple of the living God; even as God said, I will dwell in them, and walk in them; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people.
• Eph 2:21-22 : 21 in whom each several building, fitly framed together, groweth into a holy temple in the Lord; 22 in whom ye also are builded together for a habitation of God in the Spirit.
• Rom 8:11 : 11 But if the Spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the dead dwelleth in you, he that raised up Christ Jesus from the dead shall give life also to your mortal bodies through his Spirit that dwelleth in you.
• 1 Pet 2:5 : 5 ye also, as living stones, are built up a spiritual house, to be a holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.
• 1 John 4:15-16 : 15 Whosoever {G302} shall confess that Jesus is the Son of God, God abideth in him, and he in God. 16 And we know and have believed the love which God hath in us. God is love; and he that abideth in love abideth in God, and God abideth in him.
• John 14:17 : 17 [ even] the Spirit of truth: whom the world cannot {G3756} receive; for it beholdeth him not, neither knoweth him: {G1161} ye know him; for he abideth with you, and shall be in you.
• Heb 3:6 : 6 but Christ as a son, over his house; whose house are we, if we hold fast our boldness and the glorying of our hope firm unto the end.
• 1 John 4:12 : 12 No man hath beheld God at any time: if we love one another, God abideth in us, and his love is perfected in us:
• 2 Tim 1:14 : 14 That good thing which was committed unto [thee] guard through the Holy Spirit which dwelleth in us.
• Rom 6:3 : 3 Or are ye ignorant that all we who were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death?
• 1 Cor 6:2-3 : 2 Or know ye not that the saints shall judge the world? and if the world is judged by you, are ye unworthy to judge the smallest matters? 3 Know ye not that we shall judge angels? how much more, things that pertain to this life?
• 1 Cor 6:9 : 9 Or know 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 men,
• 1 Cor 6:16 : 16 Or know ye not that he that is joined to a harlot is one body? for, The twain, saith he, shall become {G1519} one flesh.
• 1 Cor 9:13 : 13 Know ye not that they that minister about sacred things eat [of] the things of the temple, [and] they that wait upon the altar have their portion with the altar?