1 Corinthians 3:17

God's Word

If anyone destroys God’s temple, God will destroy him because God’s temple is holy. You are that holy temple!

Cross References

Genesis 28:17

Filled with awe, he said, “How awe-inspiring this place is! Certainly, this is the house of God and the gateway to heaven!”

1 Chronicles 29:3

Moreover, I delight in the temple of my God. I have a personal treasury of gold and silver that I’m giving to my God’s temple in addition to everything else I gathered for the holy temple.

Psalm 74:3

Turn your steps toward these pathetic ruins. The enemy has destroyed everything in the holy temple.

Psalm 79:1

O God, the nations have invaded the land that belongs to you. They have dishonored your holy temple. They have left Jerusalem in ruins.

Psalm 93:5

Your written testimonies are completely reliable. O Lord, holiness is what makes your house beautiful for days without end.

Psalm 99:9

Highly honor the Lord our God. Bow at his holy mountain. The Lord our God is holy!

Exodus 3:5

God said, “Don’t come any closer! Take off your sandals because this place where you are standing is holy ground.

Isaiah 64:11

Our holy and beautiful temple, where our ancestors praised you, has been burned to the ground. All that we valued has been ruined.

Ezekiel 43:12

“This is a regulation of the temple: The whole area all the way around the top of the mountain is most holy. Yes, this is a regulation of the temple.”

Ezekiel 5:11

“As I live, declares the Almighty Lord, because you have dishonored my holy worship place with all your disgusting and detestable things, I will have you killed. I will not have compassion for you or feel sorry for you.

Ezekiel 7:22

I will turn my face away from the people of Israel, and foreigners will dishonor my treasured place. Robbers will go in and dishonor it.

Leviticus 15:31

“You must separate the Israelites from anything that keeps them from being presentable to me. Otherwise, they will die because they make my tent, which is among them, unclean.

Leviticus 20:3

I will condemn them and exclude them from the people. They gave one of their children to Molech, made my holy tent unclean, and dishonored my holy name.

Zephaniah 3:4

Its prophets are reckless and unfaithful. Its priests contaminate what is holy. They violate the teachings.

Numbers 19:20

But if the person who becomes unclean doesn’t have his sin taken away, that person must be excluded from the assembly. He has made the holy place of the Lord unclean. The water to take away uncleanness wasn’t sprinkled on him. He is unclean.

1 Corinthians 3:16

Don’t you know that you are God’s temple and that God’s Spirit lives in you?

1 Corinthians 3:18

Don’t deceive yourselves. If any of you think you are wise in the ways of this world, you should give up that wisdom in order to become really wise.