Bible verse

1 Corinthians 3:16

Do you not know that you yourselves are God’s temple, and that God’s Spirit dwells in you?

1 Corinthians 3:16 · BSB

1 Corinthians 3:16 in context

The verses around it, from 1 Corinthians 3.

12 If anyone builds on this foundation using gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, or straw,

13 his workmanship will be evident, because the Day will bring it to light. It will be revealed with fire, and the fire will prove the quality of each man’s work.

14 If what he has built survives, he will receive a reward.

15 If it is burned up, he will suffer loss. He himself will be saved, but only as if through the flames.

16 Do you not know that you yourselves are God’s temple, and that God’s Spirit dwells in you?

17 If anyone destroys God’s temple, God will destroy him; for God’s temple is holy, and you are that temple.

18 Let no one deceive himself. If any of you thinks he is wise in this age, he should become a fool, so that he may become wise.

19 For the wisdom of this world is foolishness in God’s sight. As it is written: “He catches the wise in their craftiness.”

20 And again, “The Lord knows that the thoughts of the wise are futile.”

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1 Corinthians 3:16 in other translations

KJV

Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and [that] the Spirit of God dwelleth in you?

ASV

Know ye not that ye are a temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you?

ERV

Know ye not that ye are a temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you?

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