1 Corinthians 3:17

World English Bible (2000)

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

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  • 1 Cor 6:18-20 : 18 Flee sexual immorality! "Every sin that a man does is outside the body," but he who commits sexual immorality sins against his own body. 19 Or don't you know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit which is in you, which you have from God? You are not your own, 20 for you were 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 our beautiful house, where our fathers praised you, is burned with fire; and all our pleasant places are laid waste.
  • Ezek 7:22 : 22 My face will I turn also from them, and they shall profane my secret [place]; and robbers shall enter into it, and profane it.
  • Ezek 23:38-39 : 38 Moreover this they have done to me: they have defiled my sanctuary in 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: on the top of the mountain the whole limit around it shall be most holy. Behold, this is the law of the house.
  • Zeph 3:4 : 4 Her prophets are arrogant and treacherous people. Her priests have profaned the sanctuary. They have done violence to the law.
  • Ezek 5:11 : 11 Therefore, as I live, says the Lord Yahweh, 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, and I also will have no pity.
  • Gen 28:17 : 17 He was afraid, and said, "How dreadful is this place! This is none other than God's house, and this is the gate of heaven."
  • Exod 3:5 : 5 He said, "Don't come close. Take your sandals off of your feet, for the place you are standing on is holy ground."
  • Lev 15:31 : 31 "'Thus you shall separate the children of Israel from their uncleanness, so they will not die in their uncleanness, when they defile my tabernacle that is in their midst.'"
  • Lev 20:3 : 3 I also will set my face against that person, and will cut him off from among his people because he has given of his seed 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 the midst of the assembly, because he has defiled the sanctuary of Yahweh: the water for impurity has not been sprinkled on him; he is unclean.
  • 1 Chr 29:3 : 3 In addition, because I have set my affection on the house of my God, since I have a treasure of my own of gold and silver, I give it 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 ruins, all the evil that the enemy has done in the sanctuary.
  • Ps 79:1 : 1 God, the nations have come into your inheritance. They have defiled your holy temple. They have laid Jerusalem in heaps.
  • Ps 93:5 : 5 Your statutes stand firm. Holiness adorns your house, Yahweh, forevermore.
  • Ps 99:9 : 9 Exalt Yahweh, our God. Worship at his holy hill, for Yahweh, our God, is holy! A Psalm of thanksgiving.

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    15If any man's work is burned, he will suffer loss, but he himself will be saved, but as through fire.

    16Don't you know that you are a temple of God, and that God's Spirit lives in you?

  • 1 Cor 6:15-20
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    15Don't you know that your bodies are members of Christ? Shall I then take the members of Christ, and make them members of a prostitute? May it never be!

    16Or don't you know that he who is joined to a prostitute is one body? For, "The two," says he, "will become one flesh."

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

    18Flee sexual immorality! "Every sin that a man does is outside the body," but he who commits sexual immorality sins against his own body.

    19Or don't you know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit which is in you, which you have from God? You are not your own,

    20for you were 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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    16What agreement has a temple of God with idols? For you 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 will be my people."

    17Therefore, "'Come out from among them, and be separate,' says the Lord. 'Touch no unclean thing. I will receive you.

  • Eph 2:21-22
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    21in whom the whole building, fitted together, grows into a holy temple in the Lord;

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

  • 1 Cor 3:9-10
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    9For we are God's fellow workers. You are God's farming, God's building.

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

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    18Let no one deceive himself. If anyone thinks that he is wise among you in this world, let him become a fool, that he may become wise.

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

  • Matt 23:21
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    21He who swears by the temple, swears by it, and by him who was living in it.

  • 1 Pet 1:15-16
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    15but just as he who called you is holy, you yourselves also be holy in all of your behavior;

    16because it is written, "You shall be holy; for I am holy."

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

  • 2 Pet 3:11
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    11Therefore since all these things will be destroyed like this, what kind of people ought you to be in holy living and godliness,

  • 2 Cor 7:1
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    1Having therefore these promises, beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from all defilement of flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.

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

  • Acts 17:24
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    24The God who made the world and all things in it, he, being Lord of heaven and earth, doesn't dwell in temples made with hands,

  • 1 Cor 3:12
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    12But if anyone builds on the foundation with gold, silver, costly stones, wood, hay, or stubble;

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

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

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

    3being revealed that you are a letter of Christ, served by us, written not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God; not in tablets of stone, but in tablets that are hearts of flesh.

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    17You blind fools! For which is greater, the gold, or the temple that sanctifies the gold?

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    21If anyone therefore purges himself from these, he will be a vessel for honor, sanctified, and suitable for the master's use, prepared for every good work.

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    21But he spoke of the temple of his body.

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    4Don't trust in lying words, saying, The temple of Yahweh, the temple of Yahweh, the temple of Yahweh, are these.

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    7"'Sanctify yourselves therefore, and be holy; for I am Yahweh your God.

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    13"Foods for the belly, and the belly for foods," but God will bring to nothing both it and them. But the body is not for sexual immorality, but for the Lord; and the Lord for the body.

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    6Let no one deceive you with empty words. For because of these things, the wrath of God comes on the children of disobedience.

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    15but if I wait long, that you may know how men ought to behave themselves in the house of God, which is the assembly of the living God, the pillar and ground of the truth.

  • 2 Tim 2:19
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    19However God's firm foundation stands, having this seal, "The Lord knows those who are his," and, "Let every one who names the name of the Lord depart from unrighteousness."

  • Rom 1:23
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    23and traded the glory of the incorruptible God for the likeness of an image of corruptible man, and of birds, and four-footed animals, and creeping things.

  • Mark 11:17
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    17He taught, saying to them, "Isn't it written, 'My house will be called a house of prayer for all the nations?' But you have made it a den of robbers!"

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    23May the God of peace himself sanctify you completely. May your whole spirit, soul, and body be preserved blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.

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    9Or don't you know that the unrighteous will not inherit the Kingdom of God? Don't be deceived. Neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor male prostitutes, nor homosexuals,

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    3For this is the will of God: your sanctification, that you abstain from sexual immorality,

    4that each one of you know how to possess himself of his own vessel in sanctification and honor,

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    17This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that you no longer walk as the rest of the Gentiles also walk, in the futility of their mind,

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

  • Matt 26:61
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    61and said, "This man 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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    17For we are not as so many, peddling the word of God. But as of sincerity, but as of God, in the sight of God, we speak in Christ.

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    4For every house is built by someone; but he who built all things is God.

  • 1 Thess 4:7
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    7For God called us not for uncleanness, but in sanctification.