1 Corinthians 3:17

Geneva Bible (1560)

If any man destroy the Temple of God, him shall God destroy: for the Temple of God is holy, which ye are.

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  • 1 Cor 6:18-20 : 18 Flee fornication: euery sinne that a man doeth, is without the bodie: but hee that committeth fornication, sinneth against his owne bodie. 19 Knowe yee not, that your body is the temple of the holy Ghost, which is in you, whom ye haue of God? and yee are not your owne. 20 For yee are bought for a price: therefore glorifie God in your bodie, and in your spirit: for they are Gods.
  • Isa 64:11 : 11 The House of our Sanctuarie & of our glorie, where our fathers praysed thee, is burnt vp with fire and all our pleasant things are wasted.
  • Ezek 7:22 : 22 My face will I turne also from them, and they shall pollute my secret place: for the destroyers shall enter into it, and defile it.
  • Ezek 23:38-39 : 38 Moreouer, thus haue they done vnto me: they haue defiled my Sanctuarie in the same day, and haue prophaned my Sabbaths. 39 For when they had slaine their children to their idoles, they came the same day into my Sanctuarie to defile it: and loe, thus haue they done in the middes of mine house.
  • Ezek 43:12 : 12 This is the description of the house, It shalbe vpon the toppe of the mount: all the limites thereof round about shalbe most holy. Beholde, this is the description of the house.
  • Zeph 3:4 : 4 Her prophets are light, and wicked persons: her priests haue polluted the Sanctuarie: they haue wrested the Lawe.
  • Ezek 5:11 : 11 Wherefore, as I liue, saith the Lorde God, Surely because thou hast defiled my Sanctuarie with all thy filthinesse, and with all thine abominations, therefore will I also destroy thee, neither shall mine eye spare thee, neither will I haue any pitie.
  • Gen 28:17 : 17 And he was afraid, & said, How fearefull is this place! this is none other but the house of God, and this is the gate of heauen.
  • Exod 3:5 : 5 Then he saide, Come not hither, put thy shooes off thy feete: for the place whereon thou standest is holy ground.
  • Lev 15:31 : 31 Thus shal yee separate the children of Israel from their vncleannes, that they dye not in their vncleannesse, if they defile my Tabernacle that is among them.
  • Lev 20:3 : 3 And I will set my face against that man and cut him off from among his people, because he hath giuen his children vnto Molech, for to defile my Sanctuarie, and to pollute mine holye Name.
  • Num 19:20 : 20 But the man that is vncleane and purifieth not himselfe, that person shalbe cut off fro among the Congregation, because hee hath defiled the Sanctuarie of the Lorde: and the sprinkling water hath not bene sprinkled vpon him: therefore shall he be vncleane.
  • 1 Chr 29:3 : 3 Moreouer, because I haue delite in the house of my God, I haue of mine owne golde and siluer, which I haue giuen to the house of my God, beside all that I haue prepared for the house of the Sanctuarie,
  • Ps 74:3 : 3 Lift vp thy strokes, that thou mayest for euer destroy euery enemie that doeth euill to the Sanctuarie.
  • Ps 79:1 : 1 A Psalme committed to Asaph. O God, the heathen are come into thine inheritance: thine holy Temple haue they defiled, and made Ierusalem heapes of stones.
  • Ps 93:5 : 5 Thy testimonies are very sure: holinesse becommeth thine House, O Lord, for euer.
  • Ps 99:9 : 9 Exalt the Lorde our God, and fall downe before his holy Mountaine: for the Lorde our God is holy.

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    15If any mans worke burne, he shall lose, but he shalbe saued himselfe: neuerthelesse yet as it were by the fire.

    16Knowe ye not that ye are the Temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you?

  • 1 Cor 6:15-20
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    15Knowe yee not, that your bodies are the members of Christ? shall I then take the members of Christ, and make them the members of an harlot? God forbid.

    16Doe ye not knowe, that he which coupleth himselfe with an harlot, is one body? for two, sayeth he, shalbe one flesh.

    17But hee that is ioyned vnto the Lorde, is one spirite.

    18Flee fornication: euery sinne that a man doeth, is without the bodie: but hee that committeth fornication, sinneth against his owne bodie.

    19Knowe yee not, that your body is the temple of the holy Ghost, which is in you, whom ye haue of God? and yee are not your owne.

    20For yee are bought for a price: therefore glorifie God in your bodie, and in your spirit: for they are Gods.

  • 2 Cor 6:16-17
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    16And what agreement hath the Temple of God with idols? for ye are the Temple of the liuing God: as God hath said, I will dwell among them, and walke there: and I will be their God, and they shalbe my people.

    17Wherefore come out from among them, and separate your selues, saith the Lord, and touch none vncleane thing, and I wil receiue you.

  • Eph 2:21-22
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    21In whom all the building coupled together, groweth vnto an holy Temple in the Lord.

    22In whom ye also are built together to be the habitation of God by the Spirit.

  • 1 Cor 3:9-10
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    9For we together are Gods labourers: yee are Gods husbandrie, and Gods building.

    10According to the grace of God giuen to mee, as a skilfull master builder, I haue laide the foundation, & another buildeth thereon: but let euery man take heede how he buildeth vpon it.

  • 1 Cor 3:18
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    18Let no man deceiue himselfe: If any man among you seeme to be wise in this world, let him be a foole, that he may be wise.

  • 1 Cor 6:11
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    11And such were some of you: but yee are washed, but yee are sanctified, but yee are iustified in the Name of the Lorde Iesus, and by the Spirit of our God.

  • Matt 23:21
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    21And whosoeuer sweareth by the Temple, sweareth by it, and by him that dwelleth therein.

  • 1 Pet 1:15-16
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    15But as hee which hath called you, is holie, so be yee holie in all maner of conuersation;

    16Because it is written, Be yee holie, for I am holie.

  • John 2:19
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    19Iesus answered, and said vnto them, Destroy this Temple, and in three daies I will raise it vp againe.

  • 2 Pet 3:11
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    11Seeing therefore that all these thinges must be dissolued, what maner persons ought ye to be in holy conuersation and godlinesse,

  • 2 Cor 7:1
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    1Seing then we haue these promises, dearely beloued, let vs clense our selues from all filthinesse of the flesh and spirit, and finish our sanctification in the feare of God.

  • 1 Cor 3:23
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    23And ye Christes, and Christ Gods.

  • Acts 17:24
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    24God that made the worlde, and all things that are therein, seeing that he is Lorde of heaue and earth, dwelleth not in temples made with hands,

  • 1 Cor 3:12
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    12And if any man builde on this foundation, golde, siluer, precious stones, timber, haye, or stubble,

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    1For we knowe that if our earthly house of this tabernacle be destroyed, we haue a building giuen of God, that is, an house not made with handes, but eternall in the heauens.

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    5Yee also as liuely stones, bee made a spirituall house, an holy Priesthoode to offer vp spirituall sacrifices acceptable to God by Iesus Christ.

  • 2 Cor 3:2-3
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    2Yee are our epistle, written in our hearts, which is vnderstand, and read of all men,

    3In that yee are manifest, to be the Epistle of Christ, ministred by vs, and written, not with yncke, but with the Spirite of the liuing God, not in tables of stone, but in fleshly tables of the heart.

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    17Ye fooles and blinde, whether is greater, the golde, or the Temple that sanctifieth the golde?

  • 2 Tim 2:21
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    21If any man therefore purge him selfe from these, he shalbe a vessell vnto honour, sanctified, and meete for the Lord, and prepared vnto euery good worke.

  • John 2:21
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    21But he spake of the temple of his bodie.

  • Jer 7:4
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    4Trust not in lying woordes, saying, The Temple of the Lorde, the Temple of the Lorde: this is the Temple of the Lord.

  • Lev 20:7
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    7Sanctifie your selues therefore, and be holie, for I am the Lorde your God.

  • 1 Cor 6:13
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    13Meates are ordeined for the bellie, & the belly for the meates: but God shall destroy both it, and them. Nowe the bodie is not for fornication, but for the Lord, and the Lord for the bodie.

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    6Let no man deceiue you with vaine wordes: for, for such thinges commeth the wrath of God vpon the children of disobedience.

  • 1 Tim 3:15
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    15But if I tary long, that thou maist yet know, how thou oughtest to behaue thy self in ye house of God, which is the Church of the liuing God, the pillar and ground of trueth.

  • 2 Tim 2:19
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    19But the foundation of God remaineth sure, and hath this seale, The Lord knoweth who are his: and, Let euery one that calleth on the Name of Christ, depart from iniquitie.

  • Rom 1:23
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    23For they turned the glorie of the incorruptible God to the similitude of the image of a corruptible man, and of birdes, and foure footed beastes, and of creeping things.

  • Mark 11:17
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    17And he taught, saying vnto them, Is it not written, Mine house shalbe called the house of prayer vnto all nations? but you haue made it a denne of theeues.

  • 1 Thess 5:23
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    23Nowe the very God of peace sanctifie you throughout: and I pray God that your whole spirite and soule and body, may be kept blamelesse vnto the comming of our Lord Iesus Christ.

  • 1 Cor 6:9
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    9Knowe yee not that the vnrighteous shall not inherite the kingdome of God? Be not deceiued: neither fornicatours, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor wantons, nor buggerers,

  • 1 Thess 4:3-4
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    3For this is the will of God euen your sanctification, and that ye should abstaine from fornication,

    4That euery one of you should know, how to possesse his vessell in holines and honour,

  • Eph 4:17
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    17This I say therefore and testifie in the Lorde, that yee hencefoorth walke not as other Gentiles walke, in vanitie of their minde,

  • Rom 2:3
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    3And thinkest thou this, O thou man, that condemnest them which doe such thinges, and doest the same, that thou shalt escape the iudgement of God?

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    61And saide, This man saide, I can destroie the Temple of God, and build it in three daies.

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    17For wee are not as many, which make marchandise of the woorde of God: but as of sinceritie, but as of God in ye sight of God speake we in Christ.

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    4For euery house is builded of some man, and he that hath built all things, is God.

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    7For God hath not called vs vnto vncleannesse, but vnto holinesse.