1 Corinthians 3:16

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

Know ye not that ye are the 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 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?
• Ezek 36:27 : 27 And I will put my spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes, and ye shall keep my judgments, 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 dwell in you. Now if any man have not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of his.
• 2 Cor 6:16 : 16 And what agreement hath the temple of God with idols? for ye are the temple of the living God; as God hath 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 all the building fitly framed together groweth unto an holy temple in the Lord: 22 In whom ye also are builded together for an habitation of God through the Spirit.
• Rom 8:11 : 11 But if the Spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the dead dwell in you, he that raised up Christ from the dead shall also quicken your mortal bodies by his Spirit that dwelleth in you.
• 1 Pet 2:5 : 5 Ye also, as lively stones, are built up a spiritual house, an holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God by Jesus Christ.
• 1 John 4:15-16 : 15 Whosoever shall confess that Jesus is the Son of God, God dwelleth in him, and he in God. 16 And we have known and believed the love that God hath to us. God is love; and he that dwelleth in love dwelleth in God, and God in him.
• John 14:17 : 17 Even the Spirit of truth; whom the world cannot receive, because it seeth him not, neither knoweth him: but ye know him; for he dwelleth with you, and shall be in you.
• Heb 3:6 : 6 But Christ as a son over his own house; whose house are we, if we hold fast the confidence and the rejoicing of the hope firm unto the end.
• 1 John 4:12 : 12 No man hath seen God at any time. If we love one another, God dwelleth in us, and his love is perfected in us.
• 2 Tim 1:14 : 14 That good thing which was committed unto thee keep by the Holy Ghost which dwelleth in us.
• Rom 6:3 : 3 {G2228} Know ye not, that so many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ were baptized into his death?
• 1 Cor 6:2-3 : 2 Do ye not know that the saints shall judge the world? and if the world shall be 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 {G2228} 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 mankind,
• 1 Cor 6:16 : 16 What? know ye not that he which is joined to an harlot is one body? for two, saith he, shall be one flesh.
• 1 Cor 9:13 : 13 Do ye not know that they which minister about holy things live of the things of the temple? and they which wait at the altar are partakers with the altar?