1 Corinthians 3:17 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

¹⁷ If anyone destroys God’s temple, God will destroy that person. For God’s temple is holy, and you are that temple.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁷ If any man defile the temple of God, him shall God destroy; for the temple of God is holy, which temple ye are.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁷ If anyone does hurt to God's temple or corrupts it [with false doctrines] or destroys it, God will do hurt to him and bring him to the corruption of death and destroy him. For the temple of God is holy (sacred to Him) and that [temple] you [the believing church and its individual believers] are.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁷ If any man destroyeth the temple of God, him shall God destroy; for the temple of God is holy, and such are ye.

Common English Bible

¹⁷ If someone destroys God’s temple, God will destroy that person, because God’s temple is holy, which is what you are.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁷ But if anyone violates the Temple of God, God will destroy him. For the Temple of God is holy, and you are that Temple.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹⁷ But if any man violate the temple of God, him shall God destroy. For the temple of God is holy, which you are.

1 Corinthians 3:17 Cross References

Genesis 28:17

And he was afraid and said, “How awesome is this place! This is none other than the house of God, and this is the gate of heaven.”

1 Chronicles 29:3

Moreover, in addition to all that I have provided for the holy house, I have a treasure of my own of gold and silver, and because of my devotion to the house of my God I give it to the house of my God:

Psalm 74:3

Direct your steps to the perpetual ruins; the enemy has destroyed everything in the sanctuary.

Psalm 79:1

O God, the nations have come into your inheritance; they have defiled your holy temple; they have laid Jerusalem in ruins.

Psalm 93:5

Your decrees are very sure; holiness befits your house, O Lord, forevermore.

Psalm 99:9

Extol the Lord our God, and worship at his holy mountain, for the Lord our God is holy.

Exodus 3:5

Then he said, “Come no closer! Remove the sandals from your feet, for the place on which you are standing is holy ground.”

Isaiah 64:11

Our holy and beautiful house, where our ancestors praised you, has been burned by fire, and all our pleasant places have become ruins.

Ezekiel 43:12

This is the law of the temple: the whole territory on the top of the mountain all around shall be most holy. This is the law of the temple.

Ezekiel 5:11

Therefore, as I live, says the Lord God, surely, because you have defiled my sanctuary with all your detestable things and with all your abominations, therefore I will withdraw; my eye will not spare, and I will have no pity.

Ezekiel 7:22

I will avert my face from them so that they may profane my treasured place; the violent shall enter it; they shall profane it.

Leviticus 15:31

“Thus you shall keep the Israelites separate from their uncleanness, so that they do not die in their uncleanness by defiling my tabernacle that is in their midst.

Leviticus 20:3

I myself will set my face against them and will cut them off from the people, because they have given of their offspring to Molech, defiling my sanctuary and profaning my holy name.

Zephaniah 3:4

Its prophets are reckless, faithless persons; its priests have profaned what is sacred; they have done violence to the law.

Numbers 19:20

Any who are unclean but do not purify themselves, those persons shall be cut off from the assembly, for they have defiled the sanctuary of the Lord. Since the water for cleansing has not been dashed on them, they are unclean.

1 Corinthians 3:16

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

1 Corinthians 3:18

Do not deceive yourselves. If you think that you are wise in this age, you should become fools so that you may become wise.