1 Corinthians 3:17 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

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

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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 dreadful is this place! this is none other but the house of God, and this is the gate of heaven.

1 Chronicles 29:3

Moreover also, because I have set my affection to the house of my God, seeing that I have a treasure of mine own of gold and silver, I give it unto the house of my God, over and above all that I have prepared for the holy house;

Psalm 74:3

Lift up thy feet unto the perpetual ruins, All the evil that the enemy hath done in the sanctuary.

Psalm 79:1

O God, the heathen are come into thine inheritance; Thy holy temple have they defiled; They have laid Jerusalem on heaps.

Psalm 93:5

Thy testimonies are very sure: Holiness becometh thine house, O LORD, for evermore.

Psalm 99:9

Exalt ye the LORD our God, And worship at his holy hill; For the LORD our God is holy.

Exodus 3:5

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

Isaiah 64:11

Our holy and our beautiful house, where our fathers praised thee, is burned with fire; and all our pleasant things are laid waste.

Ezekiel 43:12

This is the law of the house: upon the top of the mountain the whole limit thereof round about shall be most holy. Behold, this is the law of the house.

Ezekiel 5:11

Wherefore, as I live, saith the Lord GOD surely, because thou hast defiled my sanctuary with all thy detestable things, and with all thine abominations, therefore will I also diminish thee; neither shall mine eye spare, and I also will have no pity.

Ezekiel 7:22

My face will I turn also from them, and they shall profane my secret place: and robbers shall enter into it, and profane it.

Leviticus 15:31

Thus shall ye separate the children of Israel from their uncleanness; that they die not in their uncleanness, when they defile my tabernacle that is in the midst of them.

Leviticus 20:3

I also will set my face against that man, and will cut him off from among his people; because he hath given of his seed unto Molech, to defile my sanctuary, and to profane my holy name.

Zephaniah 3:4

Her prophets are light and treacherous persons: her priests have profaned the sanctuary, they have done violence to the law.

Numbers 19:20

But the man that shall be unclean, and shall not purify himself, that soul shall be cut off from the midst of the assembly, because he hath defiled the sanctuary of the LORD: the water of separation hath not been sprinkled upon him; he is unclean.

1 Corinthians 3:16

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

1 Corinthians 3:18

Let no man deceive himself. If any man thinketh that he is wise among you in this world, let him become a fool, that he may become wise.