the Week of Christ the King / Proper 29 / Ordinary 34
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1 Corinthians 3:16
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You should know that you yourselves are God's temple. God's Spirit lives in you.
Do you not know that you are God's temple and that God's Spirit dwells in you?
Are ye not ware that ye are the temple of god and how that the sprete of god dwelleth in you?
Don't you know that you are a temple of God, and that God's Spirit lives in you?
You know that you are God's sanctuary and that God's Spirit lives in you, don't you?1 Corinthians 6:19; 2 Corinthians 6:16; Ephesians 2:21-22; Hebrews 3:6; 1 Peter 2:5;">[xr]
Do you not know that you are a temple of God and that the Spirit of God dwells in you?
Don't you know that you are God's temple and that God's Spirit lives in you?
Do you not know that you are a temple of God, and [that] the Spirit of God dwells in you?
Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and [that] the Spirit of God dwelleth in you?
Do you not know that you are God's temple and that God's Spirit dwells in you?
Don't you know that you are a temple of God, and that God's Spirit lives in you?
Know ye not, that ye are the temple of God, and the Spirit of God dwelleth in you?
Do you not know that you are God's Sanctuary, and that the Spirit of God has His home within you?
Witen ye not, that ye ben the temple of God, and the spirit of God dwellith in you?
Know ye not that ye are a temple of God, and [that] the Spirit of God dwelleth in you?
Do you not know that you yourselves are God's temple, and that God's Spirit dwells in you?
All of you surely know that you are God's temple and that his Spirit lives in you.
Do you not know and understand that you [the church] are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwells [permanently] in you [collectively and individually]?
Know ye not that ye are a temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you?
Do you not see that you are God's holy house, and that the Spirit of God has his place in you?
Don't you know that you people are God's temple and that God's Spirit lives in you?
Do ye not know that ye are [the] temple of God, and [that] the Spirit of God dwells in you?
KNOW YOU not that you are the temple of Aloha, and (that) the Spirit of Aloha inhabiteth in you?
Know ye not, that ye are the temple of God? and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you?
Knowe yee not that yee are the Temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you?
Don't you realize that all of you together are the temple of God and that the Spirit of God lives in you?
Do you not know that you are a house of God and that the Holy Spirit lives in you?
Do you not know that you are God's temple and that God's Spirit dwells in you?
Knowe ye not that ye are the Temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you?
Do you not know that you are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwells in you?
Know ye not that ye are a shrine a of God, and that the Spirit of God within you doth dwell?
Know you not that you are the temple of God and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you?
Knowe ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the spirite of God dwelleth in you?
Surely you know that you are God's temple and that God's Spirit lives in you!
Don’t you yourselves know that you are God’s temple and that the Spirit of God lives in you?
Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you?
Do you not know that you are God's temple and the Spirit of God dwells in you?
Do you not know that you are a sanctuary of God, and the Spirit of God dwells in you?
have ye not known that ye are a sanctuary of God, and the Spirit of God doth dwell in you?
Knowe ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the sprete of God dwelleth in you?
Don't you know, that you are the temple of God, and that the spirit of God dwells in you?
You realize, don't you, that you are the temple of God, and God himself is present in you? No one will get by with vandalizing God's temple, you can be sure of that. God's temple is sacred—and you, remember, are the temple.
Do you not know that you are God's temple and that God's Spirit lives in you?
Come on, cowboys, don't y'all realize God's outfit is all of you put together? Don't you realize the Holy Ghost lives inside ya?
Do you not know that you are a temple of God and that the Spirit of God dwells in you?
Do you not know that you are a sanctuary of God and that the Spirit of God dwells in you?
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
Know: 1 Corinthians 5:6, 1 Corinthians 6:2, 1 Corinthians 6:3, 1 Corinthians 6:9, 1 Corinthians 6:16, 1 Corinthians 6:19, 1 Corinthians 9:13, 1 Corinthians 9:24, Romans 6:3, James 4:4
ye are: 2 Corinthians 6:16, Ephesians 2:21, Ephesians 2:22, Hebrews 3:6, 1 Peter 2:5
the Spirit: Ezekiel 36:27, John 14:17, Romans 8:11, 2 Timothy 1:14, 1 John 4:12, 1 John 4:15, 1 John 4:16
Reciprocal: Exodus 26:24 - and they shall be coupled together above 2 Chronicles 29:5 - sanctify the house Psalms 93:5 - holiness Zechariah 14:20 - HOLINESS Matthew 15:20 - which John 2:21 - temple Romans 8:9 - if so be 1 Corinthians 3:9 - ye are God's building 1 Corinthians 6:13 - but for 2 Corinthians 3:8 - the ministration 2 Corinthians 13:5 - Know 2 Corinthians 13:14 - the communion Philippians 2:1 - if any fellowship Colossians 1:27 - Christ 1 Thessalonians 1:5 - in the 2 Timothy 2:20 - in a 1 John 3:24 - dwelleth 1 John 4:13 - General Revelation 7:15 - dwell Revelation 11:1 - Rise
Cross-References
Romans 5:12-21">[xr] Now the serpent was more cunning than any beast of the field which the LORD God had made. And he said to the woman, "Has God indeed said, "You shall not eat of every tree of the garden'?"
So when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree desirable to make one wise, she took of its fruit and ate. She also gave to her husband with her, and he ate.
Then the eyes of both of them were opened, and they knew that they were naked; and they sewed fig leaves together and made themselves coverings.
And they heard the sound of the LORD God walking in the garden in the cool of the day, and Adam and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the LORD God among the trees of the garden.
Then the LORD God called to Adam and said to him, "Where are you?"
So he said, "I heard Your voice in the garden, and I was afraid because I was naked; and I hid myself."
And He said, "Who told you that you were naked? Have you eaten from the tree of which I commanded you that you should not eat?"
Then the man said, "The woman whom You gave to be with me, she gave me of the tree, and I ate."
To the woman He said: "I will greatly multiply your sorrow and your conception; In pain you shall bring forth children; Your desire shall be for your husband, And he shall rule over you."
Then to Adam He said, "Because you have heeded the voice of your wife, and have eaten from the tree of which I commanded you, saying, "You shall not eat of it': "Cursed is the ground for your sake; In toil you shall eat of it All the days of your life.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
Know ye not that ye are the temple of God,.... The apostle having spoken of the saints as God's building, of himself as a wise master builder, of Christ as the only foundation, and of various doctrines as the materials laid thereon, proceeds to observe to this church, and the members of it, that they being incorporated together in a Gospel church state, were the temple of God; and which was what they could not, or at least ought not, to be ignorant of: and they are so called, in allusion to Solomon's temple; which as it was a type of the natural, so of the mystical body of Christ. There is an agreement between that and the church of Christ, in its maker, matter, situation, magnificence, and holiness; and the church is said to be the temple of God, because it is of his building, and in which he dwells: what the apostle here says of the saints at Corinth, the Jewish doctors say of the Israelites n,
×××× ×××× ×ת×, "the temple of the Lord are ye"; and which being usually said of them in the apostle's time, he may refer unto; and much better apply to the persons he does, of which the indwelling of the Spirit was the evidence:
and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you: in particular members, as a spirit of regeneration, sanctification, faith, and adoption, and as the earnest and pledge of their future glory; in their ministers to fit and qualify them for their work, and carry them through it; and in the whole church, to bless the word and ordinances, for their growth, comfort, and establishment. This furnishes out a considerable proof of the deity and distinct personality of the Spirit, since this is mentioned as an evidence of the saints being the temple of God, which would not be one, if the Spirit was not God, who dwells therein; and since a temple is sacred to deity, and therefore if he dwells here as in a temple, he must dwell here as God; and since he is mentioned as distinct from God, whose Spirit he is, and dwelling, a personal action is ascribed to him, he must be a distinct divine person.
n R. Alshech in Hag. ii. 5.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
Know ye not ... - The apostle here carries forward and completes the figure which he had commenced in regard to Christians. His illustrations had been drawn from architecture; and he here proceeds to say that Christians are that building (see 1 Corinthians 3:9): that they were the sacred temple which God had reared; and that, therefore, they should be pure and holy. This is a practical application of what he had been before saying.
Ye are the temple of God - This is to be understood of the community of Christians, or of the church, as being the place where God dwells on the earth. The idea is derived from the mode of speaking among the Jews, where they are said often in the Old Testament to be the temple and the habitation of God. And the allusion is probably to the fact that God dwelt by a visible symbol - âthe Shechinahâ - in the temple, and that His abode was there. As He dwelt there among the Jews; as He had there a temple - a dwelling place, so he dwells among Christians. they are His temple, the place of His abode. His residence is with them; and He is in their midst. This figure the apostle Paul several times uses, 1Co 6:19; 2 Corinthians 6:16; Ephesians 2:20-22. A great many passages have been quoted by Eisner and Wetstein, in which a virtuous mind is represented as the temple of God, and in which the obligation to preserve that inviolate and unpolluted is enforced. The figure is a beautiful one, and very impressive. A temple was an edifice erected to the service of God. The temple at Jerusalem was not only most magnificent, but was regarded as most sacred:
(1) From the fact that it was devoted to his service; and,
(2) From the fact that it was the special residence of Yahweh.
Among the pagan also, temples were regarded as sacred. They were supposed to be inhabited by the divinity to whom they were dedicated. They were regarded, as inviolable. Those who took refuge there were safe. It was a crime of the highest degree to violate a temple, or to tear a fugitive who had sought protection there from the altar. So the apostle says of the Christian community. They were regarded as his temple - God dwelt among them - and they should regard themselves as holy, and as consecrated to his service. And so it is regarded as a species of sacrilege to violate the temple, and to devote it to other uses, 1 Corinthians 6:19; see 1 Corinthians 3:17.
And that the Spirit of God - The Holy Spirit, the third person of the Trinity. This is conclusively proved by 1 Corinthians 6:19, where he is called âthe Holy Ghost.â
Dwelleth in you - As God dwelt formerly in the tabernacle, and afterward in the temple, so His Spirit now dwells among Christians - This cannot mean:
- That the Holy Spirit is âpersonally unitedâ to Christians, so as to form a personal union; or,
- That there is to Christians any communication of his nature or personal qualities; or,
- That there is any union of âessence,â or ânatureâ with them, for God is present in all places, and can, as God, be no more present at one place than at another.
The only sense in which he can be especially present in any place is by His âinfluence,â or âagency.â And the idea is one which denotes agency, influence, favor, special regard; and in that sense only can he be present with his church. The expression must mean:
- That the church is the seat of His operations, the field or abode on which He acts on earth;
- That His influences are there, producing the appropriate effects of His agency, love, joy, peace, long-suffering, etc.; Galatians 5:22-23;
(3)That He produces consolations there, that he sustains and guides His people;
- That they are regarded as dedicated or consecrated to Him;
- That they are especially dear to Him - that He loves them, and thus makes His abode with them. See the note at John 14:23.
(âThese words import the actual presence and inhabitation of the Spirit himself. The fact is plainly attested, but it is mysterious, and cannot be distinctly explained. In respect of His essence, He is as much present with unbelievers as with believers. His dwelling in the latter must therefore signify, that He manifests himself, in their souls, in a special manner; that He exerts there His gracious power, and produces effects which other people do not experience - We may illustrate His presence with them, as distinguished from His presence with people in general, by supposing the vegetative power of the earth to produce, in the surrounding regions, only common and worthless plants, but to throw out, in a select spot, all the riches and beauty of a cultivated gardenâ - Dickâs Theology, Vol. III. p. 287.)
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse 1 Corinthians 3:16. Ye are the temple of God — The apostle resumes here what he had asserted in 1 Corinthians 3:9: Ye are God's building. As the whole congregation of Israel were formerly considered as the temple and habitation of God, because God dwelt among them, so here the whole Church of Corinth is called the temple of God, because all genuine believers have the Spirit of God to dwell in them; and Christ has promised to be always in the midst even of two or three who are gathered together in his name. Therefore where God is, there is his temple.
