1 Corinthians 6:19

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KJV King James Version

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?

BSB Berean Standard Bible

Do 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;

WEB World English Bible

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,

ASV American Standard Version

Or know ye not that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit which is in you, which ye have from God? and ye are not your own;

YLT Young’s Literal Translation

Have ye not known that your body is a sanctuary of the Holy Spirit in you, which ye have from God? and ye are not your own,

Surrounding context — 1 Corinthians 6

16 What? know ye not that he which is joined to an harlot is one body? for two, saith he, shall be one flesh.

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

18 Flee fornication. Every sin that a man doeth is without the body; but he that committeth fornication sinneth against his own body.

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?

20 For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God’s.

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1 Corinthians 3:16Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and [that] the Spirit of God dwelleth in you?2 Corinthians 6:16And 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.1 Peter 2:5Ye also, as lively stones, are built up a spiritual house, an holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God by Jesus Christ.Ephesians 2:21-22In whom all the building fitly framed together groweth unto an holy temple in the Lord:1 Corinthians 6:15-16Know ye 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.Psalm 100:3Know ye that the LORD he [is] God: [it is] he [that] hath made us, and not we ourselves; [we are] his people, and the sheep of his pasture.Titus 2:14Who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify unto himself a peculiar people, zealous of good works.Romans 14:7-9For none of us liveth to himself, and no man dieth to himself.John 2:21But he spake of the temple of his body.2 Corinthians 5:15And [that] he died for all, that they which live should not henceforth live unto themselves, but unto him which died for them, and rose again.1 Kings 20:4And the king of Israel answered and said, My lord, O king, according to thy saying, I [am] thine, and all that I have.Psalm 12:4Who have said, With our tongue will we prevail; our lips [are] our own: who [is] lord over us?1 Chronicles 29:14But who [am] I, and what [is] my people, that we should be able to offer so willingly after this sort? for all things [come] of thee, and of thine own have we given thee.

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