1 Corinthians 3:16
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“Do you not know that you yourselves are God’s temple, and that God’s Spirit dwells in you?”
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“Do you not know that you yourselves are God’s temple, and that God’s Spirit dwells in you?”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you?”
King James Version · Public Domain“Know ye not that ye are a temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you?”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“have ye not known that ye are a sanctuary of God, and the Spirit of God doth dwell in you?”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo 1 Corinthians 3:16 — 20 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Ezekiel 36:27And I will put My Spirit within you and cause you to walk in My statutes and to carefully observe My ordinances.
- John 14:17the Spirit of truth. The world cannot receive Him, because it neither sees Him nor knows Him. But you do know Him, for He abides with you and will be in you.
- Romans 6:3Or aren’t you aware that all of us who were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into His death?
- Romans 8:9You, however, are controlled not by the flesh, but by the Spirit, if the Spirit of God lives in you. And if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, he does not belong to Christ.
- Romans 8:11And if the Spirit of Him who raised Jesus from the dead is living in you, He who raised Christ Jesus from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through His Spirit, who lives in you.
- 1 Corinthians 5:6Your boasting is not good. Do you not know that a little leaven works through the whole batch of dough?
- 1 Corinthians 6:2Do you not know that the saints will judge the world? And if you are to judge the world, are you not competent to judge trivial cases?
- 1 Corinthians 6:9Do you not know that the wicked will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: Neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor men who submit to or perform homosexual acts,
- 1 Corinthians 6:16Or don’t you know that he who unites himself with a prostitute is one with her in body? For it is said, “The two will become one flesh.”
- 1 Corinthians 6:19Do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have received from God? You are not your own;
- 1 Corinthians 9:13Do you not know that those who work in the temple eat of its food, and those who serve at the altar partake of its offerings?
- 1 Corinthians 9:24Do you not know that in a race all the runners run, but only one receives the prize? Run in such a way as to take the prize.
- 2 Corinthians 6:16What agreement can exist between the temple of God and idols? For we are the temple of the living God. As God has said: “I will dwell with them and walk among them, and I will be their God, and they will be My people.”
- Ephesians 2:21In Him the whole building is fitted together and grows into a holy temple in the Lord.
- 2 Timothy 1:14Guard the treasure entrusted to you, with the help of the Holy Spirit who dwells in us.
- Hebrews 3:6But Christ is faithful as the Son over God’s house. And we are His house, if we hold firmly to our confidence and the hope of which we boast.
- James 4:4You adulteresses! Do you not know that friendship with the world is hostility toward God? Therefore, whoever chooses to be a friend of the world renders himself an enemy of God.
- 1 Peter 2:5you also, like living stones, are being built into a spiritual house to be a holy priesthood, offering spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.
- 1 John 4:12No one has ever seen God; but if we love one another, God remains in us, and His love is perfected in us.
- 1 John 4:15If anyone confesses that Jesus is the Son of God, God abides in him, and he in God.
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