1 Corinthians 3:17
Good News Translation
God will destroy anyone who destroys God's temple. For God's temple is holy, and you yourselves are his temple.

New Revised Standard Version
If anyone destroys God’s temple, God will destroy that person. For God’s temple is holy, and you are that temple.

Contemporary English Version
Together you are God's holy temple, and God will destroy anyone who destroys his temple.

New American Bible
If anyone destroys God’s temple, God will destroy that person; for the temple of God, which you are, is holy.

Douay-Rheims Bible
But if any man violate the temple of God, him shall God destroy. For the temple of God is holy, which you are.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

But if any man violate the temple of God, him shall God destroy. For the temple of God is holy, which you are.

any.

1 Corinthians 6:18-20 Fly fornication. Every sin that a man doth is without the body: but he that committeth fornication sinneth against his own body. . . .

Leviticus 15:31 You shall teach therefore the children of Israel to take heed of uncleanness, that they may not die in their filth, when they shall have defiled my tabernacle that is among them.

Leviticus 20:3 And I will set my face against him: and I will cut him off from the midst of his people, because he hath given of his seed to Moloch, and hath defiled my sanctuary, and profaned my holy name.

Numbers 19:20 If any man be not expiated after this rite, his soul shall perish out of the midst of the church: because he hath profaned the sanctuary of the Lord, and was not sprinkled with the water of purification.

Psalm 74:3 Lift up thy hands against their pride unto the end; see what things the enemy hath done wickedly in the sanctuary.

Psalm 79:1 A psalm for Asaph. O God, the heathens are come into thy inheritance, they have defiled thy holy temple: they have made Jerusalem as a place to keep fruit.

Ezekiel 5:11 Therefore as I live, saith the Lord God: Because thou hast violated my sanctuary with all thy offences, and with all thy abominations: I will also break thee in pieces, and my eye shall not spare, and I will not have any pity.

Ezekiel 7:22 And I will turn away my face from them, and they shall violate my secret place: and robbers shall enter into it, and defile it.

Ezekiel 23:38,39 Yea, and they have done this to me. They polluted my sanctuary on the same day, and profaned my sabbaths. . . .

Zephaniah 3:4 Her prophets are senseless, men without faith: her priests have polluted the sanctuary, they have acted unjustly against the law.

defile.

Genesis 28:17 And trembling, he said: How terrible is this place? this is no other but the house of God, and the gate of heaven.

Exodus 3:5 And he said: Come not nigh hither, put off the shoes from thy feet; for the place, whereon thou standest, is holy ground.

1 Chronicles 29:3 Now over and above the things which I have offered into the house of my God I give of my own proper goods, gold and silver for the temple of my God, beside what things I have prepared for the holy house.

Psalm 93:5 Thy testimonies are become exceedingly credible: holiness becometh thy house, O Lord, unto length of days.

Psalm 99:9 Exalt ye the Lord our God, and adore at his holy mountain: for the Lord our God is holy.

Isaiah 64:11 The house of our holiness, and of our glory, where our fathers praised thee, is burnt with fire, and all our lovely things are turned into ruins.

Ezekiel 43:12 This is the law of the house upon the top of the mountain: All its border round about; most holy: this then is the law of the house.

Context
You are God's Temple
16Know you not that you are the temple of God and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you? 17But if any man violate the temple of God, him shall God destroy. For the temple of God is holy, which you are. 18Let no man deceive himself. If any man among you seem to be wise in this world, let him become a fool, that he may be wise.…
Cross References
Psalm 93:5
Thy testimonies are become exceedingly credible: holiness becometh thy house, O Lord, unto length of days.

1 Corinthians 3:16
Know you not that you are the temple of God and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you?

1 Corinthians 3:18
Let no man deceive himself. If any man among you seem to be wise in this world, let him become a fool, that he may be wise.

1 Corinthians 3:16
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