1 Corinthians 3:17

New International Reader's Version

If anyone destroys God’s temple, God will destroy that person. God’s temple is holy. And you all together are that temple.

Cross References

Genesis 28:17

Jacob was afraid. He said, “How holy this place is! This must be the house of God. This is the gate of heaven.”

1 Chronicles 29:3

With all my heart I want the temple of my God to be built. So I’m giving my personal treasures of gold and silver for it. I’m adding them to everything else I’ve provided for the holy temple.

Psalm 74:3

Walk through this place that has been torn down beyond repair. See how completely your enemies have destroyed the temple!

Psalm 79:1

God, an army from the nations has attacked your land. They have polluted your holy temple. They have completely destroyed Jerusalem.

Psalm 93:5

Your laws do not change, Lord. Your temple will be holy for all time to come.

Psalm 99:9

Honor the Lord our God. Worship at his holy mountain. The Lord our God is holy.

Exodus 3:5

“Do not come any closer,” God said. “Take off your sandals. The place you are standing on is holy ground.”

Isaiah 64:11

Our people of long ago used to praise you in our holy and glorious temple. But now it has been burned down. Everything we treasured has been destroyed.

Ezekiel 43:12

“Here is the law of the temple. The whole area on top of Mount Zion will be very holy. That is the law of the temple.”

Ezekiel 5:11

You have made my temple ‘unclean.’ You have set up statues of all your evil gods. You have done other things I hate. So I will cut you off just like Ezekiel cut off his hair. I will not spare you or feel sorry for you. And that is just as sure as I am alive,” announces the Lord and King.

Ezekiel 7:22

I will turn my face away from my people. Robbers will make “unclean” the temple I love. They will enter it and make it “unclean.”

Leviticus 15:31

“ ‘You must keep the Israelites away from things that make them “unclean.” Then they will not die for being “unclean.” And they will not die for making the place “unclean” where I, the Lord, live. It is in the middle of the camp.’ ”

Leviticus 20:3

I will turn against that man. I will separate him from his people. That’s because he has sacrificed his child to Molek. He has made my sacred tent “unclean.” He has treated my name as if it were not holy.

Zephaniah 3:4

Their prophets care about nothing. They can’t be trusted. Their priests make the temple “unclean.” They break the law they teach others to obey.

Numbers 19:20

But what if those who are ‘unclean’ do not make themselves pure and ‘clean?’ Then they must be separated from the community. They have made my holy tent ‘unclean.’ The special water has not been sprinkled on them. They are ‘unclean.’

1 Corinthians 3:16

Don’t you know that you yourselves are God’s temple? Don’t you know that God’s Spirit lives among you?

1 Corinthians 3:18

Don’t fool yourselves. Suppose some of you think you are wise by the standards of the world. Then you should become “fools” so that you can become wise.