16Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you?
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What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own?
And I will put my spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes, and ye shall keep my judgments, and do them.
And what agreement hath the temple of God with idols? for ye are the temple of the living God; as God hath said, I will dwell in them, and walk in them; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people.
But if the Spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the dead dwell in you, he that raised up Christ from the dead shall also quicken your mortal bodies by his Spirit that dwelleth in you.
In whom all the building fitly framed together groweth unto an holy temple in the Lord: …
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 16-17)Here the apostle resumes his argument and exhortation, founding it on his former allusion, You are God’s building , 1 Cor. 3:9; and here, Know you not that you are the temple of God, and the Spirit of God dwelleth in you? If any man defile (corrupt and destroy) the temple of God, him shall God destroy (the same word is in the original in both clauses); for the temple of God is holy, which temple y…
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