God’s Word Translation
1 Corinthians 6:19
19Don’t you know that your body is a temple that belongs to the Holy Spirit? The Holy Spirit, whom you received from God, lives in you. You don’t belong to yourselves.
1 Corinthians 6:19 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)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?
- New International Version (NIV)Do you not know that your bodies are temples of the Holy Spirit, who is in you, whom you have received from God? You are not your own;
- English Standard Version (ESV)Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit within you, whom you have from God? You are not your own,
- New King James Version (NKJV)Or do you not know that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have from God, and you are not your own?
Context of 1 Corinthians 6:19
17However, the person who unites himself with the Lord becomes one spirit with him. 18Stay away from sexual sins. Other sins that people commit don’t affect their bodies the same way sexual sins do. People who sin sexually sin against their own bodies. Don’t you know that your body is a temple that belongs to the Holy Spirit? The Holy Spirit, whom you received from God, lives in you. You don’t belong to yourselves. 20You were bought for a price. So bring glory to God in the way you use your body.
Read all of 1 Corinthians 61 Corinthians 6:19 word by word
ἢ οὐκ οἴδατε ὅτι τὸ σῶμα ὑμῶν ναὸς τοῦ ἐν ὑμῖν ἁγίου πνεύματός ἐστιν οὗ ἔχετε ἀπὸ θεοῦ, καὶ οὐκ ἐστὲ ἑαυτῶν;Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
- ·ὁho hē to · the/this/whoG3588
- Whatἤē · orG2228
- know yeεἴδωeidō · to perceive: understandG1492
- notοὐou · noG3756
- thatὅτιhoti · that/since: thatG3754
- yourσύsu · youG4771
- bodyσῶμαsōma · bodyG4983
- isεἰμίeimi · to beG1510
- the templeναόςnaos · templeG3485
- of the Holyἅγιοςhagios · holyG40
- Ghostπνεῦμαpneuma · spirit/breath: spiritG4151
- inἐνen · in/on/amongG1722
- whichὅςhos hē ho · whichG3739
- ye haveἔχωechō · to have/beG2192
- ofἀπόapo · away fromG575
- Godθεόςtheos · GodG2316
- andκαίkai · andG2532
- your ownἑαυτοῦheautou · themselfG1438
Cross-references for 1 Corinthians 6:19
- 1 Corinthians 6:15Don’t you realize that your bodies are parts of Christ’s body? Should I take the parts of Christ’s body and make them parts of a prostitute’s body? That’s unthinkable!
- 1 Corinthians 3:16Don’t you know that you are God’s temple and that God’s Spirit lives in you?
- 2 Corinthians 6:16Can God’s temple contain false gods? Clearly, we are the temple of the living God. As God said, “I will live and walk among them. I will be their God, and they will be my people.”
- Ephesians 2:21In him all the parts of the building fit together and grow into a holy temple in the Lord.
- 1 Peter 2:5You come to him as living stones, a spiritual house that is being built into a holy priesthood. So offer spiritual sacrifices that God accepts through Jesus Christ.
- 1 Kings 20:4The king of Israel answered, “As you say, Your Majesty. I and everything I have are yours.”
- 1 Chronicles 29:14But who am I and who are my people that you enable us to give so generously? Everything comes from you. We give you only what has come from your hands.
- Psalms 12:4that has said, “We will overcome with our tongues. With lips such as ours, who can be our master?”
- Psalms 100:3Realize that the Lord alone is God. He made us, and we are his. We are his people and the sheep in his care.
- Romans 14:7It’s clear that we don’t live to honor ourselves, and we don’t die to honor ourselves.
- 2 Corinthians 5:15He died for all people so that those who live should no longer live for themselves but for the man who died and was brought back to life for them.
Commentaries on 1 Corinthians 6:19
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 19Your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost - What an astonishing saying is this! As truly as the living God dwelt in the Mosaic tabernacle, and in the temple of Solomon, so truly does the Holy Ghost dwell in the souls of genuine Christians; and as the temple and all its utensils were holy, separated from all common and profane uses, and dedicated alone to the service of God, so the bodies of genuine Christians are holy, and all their members should be…Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 19What! know ye not - This is the fifth argument against this sin. The Holy Spirit dwells in us; our bodies are his temples; and they should not be defiled and polluted by sin; see the note at 1 Corinthians 3:16-17. As this Spirit is in us, and as it is given us by God, we ought not to dishonor the gift and the giver by pollution and vice. And ye are not your own - This is the sixth argument which Paul uses. We are purchased; we belong to God; we are his…Read the comment
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 12-20Verses 12-20 Some among the Corinthians seem to have been ready to say, All things are lawful for me. This dangerous conceit St. Paul opposes. There is a liberty wherewith Christ has made us free, in which we must stand fast. But surely a Christian would never put himself into the power of any bodily appetite. The body is for the Lord; is to be an instrument of righteousness to holiness, therefore is never to be made an instrument of sin. It is an honour…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 18-20For Christians, the body is a temple of the Holy Spirit (see study note on 1 Corinthians 3:16–17; compare 2 Corinthians 6:16). Sexual sin violates this sacred space and the divine presence. You are not your own: Christians cannot claim their bodies as their own because they have been bought with a high price, the blood of Christ (compare 1 Corinthians 7:23; Revelation 5:9). Christ has claimed every part of their lives for God’s glory (see Romans 14:7–9; 2…Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 1919. What? know ye not? &c.--Proof that "he that fornicates sinneth against his own body" (1Co 6:18). your body--not "bodies." As in 1Co 3:17, he represented the whole company of believers (souls and bodies), that is, the Church, as "the temple of God," the Spirit; so here, the body of each individual of the Church is viewed as the ideal "temple of the Holy Ghost." So Joh 17:23, which proves that not only the Church, but also each member of it, is "the…Read the comment
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Commentaries on 1 Corinthians 6
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Calvin’s Commentaries
- John Wesley’s Notes
- Illustrated New Testament
- Burkitt’s Expository Notes
- Darby Translation Notes
- Family Bible Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- The People’s New Testament
- Robertson’s Word Pictures
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Original Douay–Rheims Annotations
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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