1 Corinthians 3:17

New Century Version

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

Cross References

Genesis 28:17

He was afraid and said, “This place frightens me! It is surely the house of God and the gate of heaven.”

1 Chronicles 29:3

I have already given this for the Temple, but now I am also giving my own treasures of gold and silver, because I really want the Temple of my God to be built.

Psalm 74:3

Make your way through these old ruins; the enemy wrecked everything in the Temple.

Psalm 79:1

God, nations have come against your chosen people. They have ruined your holy Temple. They have turned Jerusalem into ruins.

Psalm 93:5

Lord, your laws will stand forever. Your Temple will be holy forevermore.

Psalm 99:9

Praise the Lord our God, and worship at his holy mountain, because the Lord our God is holy.

Exodus 3:5

Then God said, “Do not come any closer. Take off your sandals, because you are standing on holy ground.

Isaiah 64:11

Our ancestors worshiped you in our holy and wonderful Temple, but now it has been burned with fire, and all our precious things have been destroyed.

Ezekiel 43:12

This is the teaching about the Temple: All the area around the top of the mountain is most holy. This is the teaching about the Temple.

Ezekiel 5:11

So the Lord God says: You have made my Temple unclean with all your evil idols and the hateful things you do. Because of this, as surely as I live, I will cut you off. I will have no pity, and I will show no mercy.

Ezekiel 7:22

I will also turn away from the people of Israel, and they will dishonor my treasured place. Then robbers will enter and dishonor it.

Leviticus 15:31

“ ‘So you must warn the people of Israel to stay separated from things that make them unclean. If you don’t warn the people, they might make my Holy Tent unclean, and then they would have to die!’ ”

Leviticus 20:3

I will be against him and cut him off from his people, because he gave his children to Molech. He showed that he did not respect my holy name, and he made my Holy Place unclean.

Zephaniah 3:4

Its prophets are proud; they are people who cannot be trusted. Its priests don’t respect holy things; they break God’s teachings.

Numbers 19:20

If any who are unclean do not become clean, they must be cut off from the community. Since they were not sprinkled with the cleansing water, they stay unclean, and they could make the Lord’s Holy Tent 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

Do not fool yourselves. If you think you are wise in this world, you should become a fool so that you can become truly wise,