1 Corinthians 3:17

KJV1611 – Modern English

If anyone defiles the temple of God, God will destroy him; for the temple of God is holy, which temple you are.

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  • 1 Cor 6:18-20 : 18 Flee fornication. Every sin that a man does is outside the body; but he who commits fornication sins against his own body. 19 What? Do you not know that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit which is in you, which you have from God, and you are not your own? 20 For you are bought with a price; therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God's.
  • Isa 64:11 : 11 Our holy and beautiful house, where our fathers praised you, is burned up with fire: and all our pleasant things are laid waste.
  • Ezek 7:22 : 22 I will also turn my face from them, and they shall pollute my secret place; for the robbers shall enter into it and defile it.
  • Ezek 23:38-39 : 38 Moreover this they have done to me: they have defiled my sanctuary on the same day, and have profaned my sabbaths. 39 For when they had slain their children to their idols, then they came the same day into my sanctuary to profane it; and, behold, thus have they done in the midst of my house.
  • Ezek 43:12 : 12 This is the law of the house: Upon the top of the mountain, its entire area all around shall be most holy. Behold, this is the law of the house.
  • Zeph 3:4 : 4 Her prophets are light and treacherous people: her priests have polluted the sanctuary, they have done violence to the law.
  • Ezek 5:11 : 11 Therefore, as I live, says the Lord GOD; Surely, because you have defiled my sanctuary with all your detestable things, and with all your abominations, therefore will I also diminish you; neither shall my eye spare, nor will I have any pity.
  • Gen 28:17 : 17 And he was afraid, and said, How awesome is this place! This is none other than the house of God, and this is the gate of heaven.
  • Exod 3:5 : 5 And he said, Do not draw near here; take off your shoes from your feet, for the place where you stand is holy ground.
  • Lev 15:31 : 31 Thus shall you separate the children of Israel from their uncleanness; that they do not die in their uncleanness, when they defile my tabernacle that is among them.
  • Lev 20:3 : 3 And I will set my face against that man, and will cut him off from among his people; because he has given of his offspring to Molech, to defile my sanctuary, and to profane my holy name.
  • Num 19:20 : 20 But the man who shall be unclean, and shall not purify himself, that soul shall be cut off from among the congregation, because he has defiled the sanctuary of the LORD: the water of purification has not been sprinkled upon him; he is unclean.
  • 1 Chr 29:3 : 3 Moreover, because I have set my affection to the house of my God, I have given of my own proper goods, of gold and silver, which I have given to the house of my God, over and above all that I have prepared for the holy house,
  • Ps 74:3 : 3 Lift up Your feet to the perpetual desolations; even all that the enemy has done wickedly in the sanctuary.
  • Ps 79:1 : 1 O God, the heathen have entered into Your inheritance; Your holy temple they have defiled; they have laid Jerusalem in ruins.
  • Ps 93:5 : 5 Your testimonies are very sure: holiness adorns your house, O LORD, forever.
  • Ps 99:9 : 9 Exalt the LORD our God, and worship at 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 anyone's work is burned, he will suffer loss: but he himself will be saved; yet so as through fire.

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

  • 1 Cor 6:15-20
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    81%

    15 Do you not know that your bodies are the members of Christ? Shall I then take the members of Christ, and make them the members of a harlot? God forbid.

    16 What? Do you not know that he who is joined to a harlot is one body? For two, says He, shall be one flesh.

    17 But he who is joined unto the Lord is one spirit.

    18 Flee fornication. Every sin that a man does is outside the body; but he who commits fornication sins against his own body.

    19 What? Do you not know that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit which is in you, which you have from God, and you are not your own?

    20 For you are bought with a price; therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God's.

  • 2 Cor 6:16-17
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    16 And what agreement has the temple of God with idols? For you are the temple of the living God; as God has said: I will dwell in them and walk among them. I will be their God, and they shall be My people.

    17 Therefore come out from among them and be separate, says the Lord. Do not touch what is unclean, and I will receive you.

  • Eph 2:21-22
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    21 In whom all the building fitly framed together grows to a holy temple in the Lord:

    22 In whom you also are built together for a habitation of God through the Spirit.

  • 1 Cor 3:9-10
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    74%

    9 For we are workers together with God: you are God's field, you are God's building.

    10 According to the grace of God which is given to me, as a wise master builder, I have laid the foundation, and another builds on it. But let every man be careful how he builds on it.

  • 1 Cor 3:18
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    18 Let no one deceive himself. If anyone among you seems to be wise in this world, let him become a fool, that he may be wise.

  • 1 Cor 6:11
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    11 And such were some of you: but you are washed, but you are sanctified, but you are justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and by the Spirit of our God.

  • Matt 23:21
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    21 And whoever swears by the temple, swears by it and by him that dwells in it.

  • 1 Pet 1:15-16
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    15 But as He who called you is holy, you also be holy in all your conduct;

    16 Because it is written, "Be holy; for I am holy."

  • John 2:19
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    19 Jesus answered and said to them, Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up.

  • 2 Pet 3:11
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    11 Seeing then that all these things shall be dissolved, what manner of persons ought you to be in all holy conduct and godliness,

  • 2 Cor 7:1
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    1 Having therefore these promises, dearly beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from all filthiness of the flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness 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 God, who made the world and all things in it, since He is Lord of heaven and earth, does not dwell in temples made with hands;

  • 1 Cor 3:12
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    12 Now if anyone builds on this foundation with gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, straw;

  • 2 Cor 5:1
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    1 For we know that if our earthly body, this tabernacle, is destroyed, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens.

  • 1 Pet 2:5
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    5 You also, as living stones, are being built up a spiritual house, a holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.

  • 2 Cor 3:2-3
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    2 You are our letter written in our hearts, known and read by all men.

    3 Forasmuch as you are clearly shown to be the letter of Christ ministered by us, written not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God; not on tablets of stone, but on tablets of the heart.

  • Matt 23:17
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    17 Fools and blind: for which is greater, the gold, or the temple that sanctifies the gold?

  • 2 Tim 2:21
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    21 Therefore, if anyone cleanses himself from the latter, he will be a vessel for honor, sanctified and useful for the Master, prepared for every good work.

  • John 2:21
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    21 But he was speaking of the temple of his body.

  • Jer 7:4
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    4 Do not trust in deceptive 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 Sanctify yourselves therefore, and be holy: for I am the LORD your God.

  • 1 Cor 6:13
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    13 Food for the stomach, and the stomach for food; but God shall destroy both it and them. Now the body is not for fornication, but for the Lord; and the Lord for the body.

  • Eph 5:6
    70%

    6 Let no one deceive you with empty words: for because of these things the wrath of God comes upon the children of disobedience.

  • 1 Tim 3:15
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    15 But if I delay, that you may know how you ought to conduct yourself in the house of God, which is the church of the living God, the pillar and foundation of the truth.

  • 2 Tim 2:19
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    19 Nevertheless, the solid foundation of God stands, having this seal: "The Lord knows those who are His," and, "Let everyone who names the name of Christ depart from iniquity."

  • Rom 1:23
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    23 And changed the glory of the incorruptible God into an image made like corruptible man, and to birds and four-footed beasts and creeping things.

  • Mark 11:17
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    17 And he taught, saying to them, Is it not written, My house shall be called of all nations the house of prayer? but you have made it a den of thieves.

  • 1 Thess 5:23
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    23 And may the very God of peace sanctify you completely; and I pray God your whole spirit, soul, and body be preserved blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.

  • 1 Cor 6:9
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    9 Do you not know that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor the effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind,

  • 1 Thess 4:3-4
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    3 For this is the will of God, your sanctification, that you should abstain from fornication:

    4 That every one of you should know how to possess his vessel in sanctification and honor;

  • Eph 4:17
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    17 This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that you should no longer walk as the rest of the Gentiles walk, in the futility of their mind,

  • Rom 2:3
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    3 And do you think this, O man, who judges those who do such things, and do the same, that you shall escape the judgment of God?

  • Matt 26:61
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    61 And said, This fellow said, I am able to destroy the temple of God, and to build it in three days.

  • 2 Cor 2:17
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    17 For we are not like many who corrupt the word of God; but as of sincerity, as from God, we speak in the sight of God in Christ.

  • Heb 3:4
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    4 For every house is built by someone; but He who built all things is God.

  • 1 Thess 4:7
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    7 For God has not called us unto uncleanness, but unto holiness.

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