1 Corinthians 3:17

New English Translation

If someone destroys God’s temple, God will destroy him. For God’s temple is holy, which is what you are.

Cross References

Genesis 28:17

He was afraid and said, “What an awesome place this is! This is nothing else than the house of God! This is the gate of heaven!”

1 Chronicles 29:3

Now, to show my commitment to the temple of my God, I donate my personal treasure of gold and silver to the temple of my God, in addition to all that I have already supplied for this holy temple.

Psalm 74:3

Hurry and look at the permanent ruins, and all the damage the enemy has done to the temple!

Psalm 79:1

O God, foreigners have invaded your chosen land; they have polluted your holy temple and turned Jerusalem into a heap of ruins.

Psalm 93:5

The rules you set down are completely reliable. Holiness aptly adorns your house, O Lord, forever.

Psalm 99:9

Praise the Lord our God! Worship on his holy hill, for the Lord our God is holy!

Exodus 3:5

God said, “Do not approach any closer! Take your sandals off your feet, for the place where you are standing is holy ground.”

Isaiah 64:11

Our holy temple, our pride and joy, the place where our ancestors praised you, has been burned with fire; all our prized possessions have been destroyed.

Ezekiel 43:12

“This is the law of the temple: The entire area on top of the mountain all around will be most holy. Indeed, this is the law of the temple.

Ezekiel 5:11

“Therefore, as surely as I live, says the sovereign Lord, because you defiled my sanctuary with all your detestable idols and with all your abominable practices, I will withdraw; my eye will not pity you, nor will I spare you.

Ezekiel 7:22

I will turn my face away from them and they will desecrate my treasured place. Vandals will enter it and desecrate it.

Leviticus 15:31

“‘Thus you are to set the Israelites apart from their impurity so that they do not die in their impurity by defiling my tabernacle which is in their midst.

Leviticus 20:3

I myself will set my face against that man and cut him off from the midst of his people, because he has given some of his children to Molech and thereby defiled my sanctuary and profaned my holy name.

Zephaniah 3:4

Her prophets are proud; they are deceitful men. Her priests defile what is holy; they break God’s laws.

Numbers 19:20

But the man who is unclean and does not purify himself, that person must be cut off from among the community, because he has polluted the sanctuary of the Lord; the water of purification was not sprinkled on him, so he is unclean.

1 Corinthians 3:16

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

1 Corinthians 3:18

Guard against self-deception, each of you. If someone among you thinks he is wise in this age, let him become foolish so that he can become wise.