1 Corinthians 3:17

Bible in Basic English (1941)

If anyone makes the house of God unclean, God will put an end to him; for the house of God is holy, and you are his house.

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Referenced Verses

  • 1 Cor 6:18-20 : 18 Keep away from the desires of the flesh. Every sin which a man does is outside of the body; but he who goes after the desires of the flesh does evil to his body. 19 Or are you not conscious that your body is a house for the Holy Spirit which is in you, and which has been given to you by God? and you are not the owners of yourselves; 20 For a payment has been made for you: let God be honoured in your body.
  • Isa 64:11 : 11 In view of all this, will you still do nothing, O Lord? will you keep quiet, and go on increasing our punishment?
  • Ezek 7:22 : 22 And my face will be turned away from them, and they will make my secret place unholy: violent men will go into it and make it unholy.
  • Ezek 23:38-39 : 38 Further, this is what she has done to me: she has made my holy place unclean and has made my Sabbaths unclean. 39 For when she had made an offering of her children to her images, she came into my holy place to make it unclean; see, this is what she has done inside my house.
  • Ezek 43:12 : 12 This is the law of the house: On the top of the mountain all the space round it on every side will be most holy. See, this is the law of the house.
  • Zeph 3:4 : 4 Her prophets are good-for-nothing persons, full of deceit: her priests have made the holy place unclean and have gone violently against the law.
  • Ezek 5:11 : 11 For this cause, by my life, says the Lord, because you have made my holy place unclean with all your hated things and all your disgusting ways, you will become disgusting to me; my eye will have no mercy and I will have no pity.
  • Gen 28:17 : 17 And fear came on him, and he said, This is a holy place; this is nothing less than the house of God and the doorway of heaven.
  • Exod 3:5 : 5 And he said, Do not come near: take off your shoes from your feet, for the place where you are is holy.
  • Lev 15:31 : 31 In this way may the children of Israel be made free from all sorts of unclean conditions, so that death may not overtake them when they are unclean and when they make unclean my holy place which is among them.
  • Lev 20:3 : 3 And my face will be turned against that man, and he will be cut off from his people; because he has given his offspring to Molech, making my holy place unclean, and making my holy name common.
  • Num 19:20 : 20 But the man who, being unclean, does not make himself clean in this way, will be cut off from the meeting of the people, because he has made the holy place of the Lord unclean: the water has not been put on him, he is unclean.
  • 1 Chr 29:3 : 3 And because this house of God is dear to me, I give my private store of gold and silver to the house of my God, in addition to all I have got ready for the holy house;
  • Ps 74:3 : 3 Go up and see the unending destruction; all the evil which your haters have done in the holy place;
  • Ps 79:1 : 1 <A Psalm. Of Asaph.> O God, the nations have come into your heritage; they have made your holy Temple unclean; they have made Jerusalem a mass of broken walls.
  • Ps 93:5 : 5 Your witness is most certain; it is right for your house to be holy, O Lord, for ever.
  • Ps 99:9 : 9 Give high honour to the Lord our God, worshipping with your faces turned to his holy hill; for the Lord our God is holy.

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  • 1 Cor 3:15-16
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    15 If the fire puts an end to any man's work, it will be his loss: but he will get salvation himself, though as by fire.

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

  • 1 Cor 6:15-20
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    15 Do you not see that your bodies are part of the body of Christ? how then may I take what is a part of the body of Christ and make it a part of the body of a loose woman? such a thing may not be.

    16 Or do you not see that he who is joined to a loose woman is one body with her? for God has said, The two of them will become one flesh.

    17 But he who is united to the Lord is one spirit.

    18 Keep away from the desires of the flesh. Every sin which a man does is outside of the body; but he who goes after the desires of the flesh does evil to his body.

    19 Or are you not conscious that your body is a house for the Holy Spirit which is in you, and which has been given to you by God? and you are not the owners of yourselves;

    20 For a payment has been made for you: let God be honoured in your body.

  • 2 Cor 6:16-17
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    16 And what agreement has the house of God with images? for we are a house of the living God; even as God has said, I will be living among them, and walking with them; and I will be their God, and they will be my people.

    17 For which cause, Come out from among them, and be separate, says the Lord, and let no unclean thing come near you; and I will take you for myself,

  • Eph 2:21-22
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    21 In whom all the building, rightly joined together, comes to be a holy house of God in the Lord;

    22 In whom you, with the rest, are united together as a living-place of God in the Spirit.

  • 1 Cor 3:9-10
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    9 For we are workers with God: you are God's planting, God's building.

    10 In the measure of the grace given to me, I, as a wise master-builder, have put the base in position, and another goes on building on it. But let every man take care what he puts on it.

  • 1 Cor 3:18
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    18 Let no man have a false idea. If any man seems to himself to be wise among you, let him become foolish, so that he may be wise.

  • 1 Cor 6:11
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    11 And such were some of you; but you have been washed, you have been made holy, you have been given righteousness in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and in the Spirit of our God.

  • Matt 23:21
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    21 And he who takes an oath by the Temple, takes it by the Temple and by him whose house it is.

  • 1 Pet 1:15-16
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    15 But be holy in every detail of your lives, as he, whose servants you are, is holy;

    16 Because it has been said in the Writings, You are to be holy, for I am holy.

  • John 2:19
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    19 And Jesus said to them, Send destruction on this Temple and I will put it up again in three days.

  • 2 Pet 3:11
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    11 Seeing then that all these things are coming to such an end, what sort of persons is it right for you to be, in all holy behaviour and righteousness,

  • 2 Cor 7:1
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    1 Because God, then, will give us such rewards, dear brothers, let us make ourselves clean from all evil of flesh and spirit, and become completely holy in the fear of God.

  • 1 Cor 3:23
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    23 And you are Christ's; and Christ is God's.

  • Acts 17:24
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    24 The God who made the earth and everything in it, he, being Lord of heaven and earth, is not housed in buildings made with hands;

  • 1 Cor 3:12
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    12 But on the base a man may put gold, silver, stones of great price, wood, dry grass, cut stems;

  • 2 Cor 5:1
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    1 For we are conscious that if this our tent of flesh is taken down, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal, in heaven.

  • 1 Pet 2:5
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    5 You, as living stones, are being made into a house of the spirit, a holy order of priests, making those offerings of the spirit which are pleasing to God through Jesus Christ.

  • 2 Cor 3:2-3
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    2 You yourselves are our letter, whose writing is in our heart, open for every man's reading and knowledge;

    3 For you are clearly a letter of Christ, the fruit of our work, recorded not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God; not in stone, but in hearts of flesh.

  • Matt 23:17
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    17 You foolish ones and blind: which is greater, the gold, or the Temple which makes the gold holy?

  • 2 Tim 2:21
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    21 If a man makes himself clean from these, he will be a vessel for honour, made holy, ready for the master's use, ready for every good work.

  • John 2:21
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    21 But his words were about that holy building which was his body.

  • Jer 7:4
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    4 Put no faith in false words, saying, The Temple of the Lord, the Temple of the Lord, the Temple of the Lord, are these.

  • Lev 20:7
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    7 So make and keep yourselves holy, for I am the Lord your God.

  • 1 Cor 6:13
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    13 Food is for the stomach and the stomach for food, and God will put an end to them together. But the body is not for the desires of the flesh, but for the Lord; and the Lord for the body:

  • Eph 5:6
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    6 Do not be turned from the right way by foolish words; for because of these things the punishment of God comes on those who do not put themselves under him.

  • 1 Tim 3:15
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    15 But if I am long in coming, this will make clear to you what behaviour is right for men in the house of God, which is the church of the living God, the pillar and base of what is true.

  • 2 Tim 2:19
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    19 But God's strong base is unchanging, having this sign, The Lord has knowledge of those who are his: and, Let everyone by whom the name of the Lord is named be turned away from evil.

  • Rom 1:23
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    23 And by them the glory of the eternal God was changed and made into the image of man who is not eternal, and of birds and beasts and things which go on the earth.

  • Mark 11:17
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    17 And he gave them teaching, and said to them, Is it not in the Writings, My house is to be named a house of prayer for all the nations? but you have made it a hole of thieves.

  • 1 Thess 5:23
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    23 And may the God of peace himself make you holy in every way; and may your spirit and soul and body be free from all sin at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.

  • 1 Cor 6:9
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    9 Have you not knowledge that evil-doers will have no part in the kingdom of God? Have no false ideas about this: no one who goes after the desires of the flesh, or gives worship to images, or is untrue when married, or is less than a man, or makes a wrong use of men,

  • 1 Thess 4:3-4
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    3 For the purpose of God for you is this: that you may be holy, and may keep yourselves from the desires of the flesh;

    4 So that every one of you may keep his body holy and in honour;

  • Eph 4:17
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    17 This I say, then, and give witness in the Lord, that you are to go no longer in the way of the Gentiles whose minds are turned to that which has no profit,

  • Rom 2:3
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    3 But you who are judging another for doing what you do yourself, are you hoping that God's decision will not take effect against you?

  • Matt 26:61
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    61 But later there came two who said, This man said, I am able to give the Temple of God to destruction, and to put it up again in three days.

  • 2 Cor 2:17
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    17 For we are not like the great number who make use of the word of God for profit: but our words are true, as from God, being said as before God in Christ.

  • Heb 3:4
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    4 For every house has a builder; but the builder of all things is God.

  • 1 Thess 4:7
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    7 Because it is God's purpose that our way of life may be not unclean but holy.