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1 Corinthians 3:16

Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you?

KJV

Οὐκ οἴδατε ὅτι ναὸς θεοῦ ἐστε καὶ τὸ πνεῦμα τοῦ θεοῦ οἰκεῖ ἐν ὑμῖν;

Greek NT

Nescitis quia templum Dei estis, et Spiritus Dei habitat in vobis ?

Vulgate

Know ye not that ye are a temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you?

ASV

Know you not that you are the temple of God and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you?

Douay-Rheims

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In the original Greek

12 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.

εἰμί
eimi
verb · 2461×
εἴδω
eido
verb · 317×
θεός
theos
noun · 1311×
καί
kai
conjunction · 8973×
ναός
naos
noun · 45×
οἰκέω
oikeo
verb · 8×
οὐ
ou
particle · 1626×
πνεῦμα
pneuma
noun · 379×
ἐν
en
preposition · 2743×
ὁ
o
article · 19778×
ὅτι
oti
conjunction · 1299×
ὑμεῖς
umeis
pronoun · 1828×

Textual variants

1 variant unit attested by manuscript witnesses and modern critical editions.

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SBLGNT: οἰκεῖ ἐν ὑμῖν | Treg/NIV/RP: οἰκεῖ ἐν ὑμῖν | WH: ἐν ὑμῖν οἰκεῖ
  • οἰκεῖ ἐν ὑμῖν — SBLGNT
  • οἰκεῖ ἐν ὑμῖν — Tregelles, Reader's GNT (NA27), Robinson-Pierpont
  • ἐν ὑμῖν οἰκεῖ — Westcott-Hort
source: sblgnt-apparatus

Themes

Doctrines that cite this verse

Historic Christian voices

14 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.

§797"What the soul is to the human body, the Holy Spirit is to the Body of Christ, which is the Church."243 "To this Spirit of Christ, as an invisible principle, is to be ascribed the fact that all the parts of the body are joined one with the other and with their exalted head; for the whole Spirit of Christ is in the head, the whole Spirit is in the body, and the whole Spirit is i…
God will bestow salvation upon the whole nature of man, consisting of body and soul in close union, since the Word took it upon Him, and adorned with the gifts of the Holy Spirit, of whom our bodies are, and are termed, the temples. 1. Now God shall be glorified in His handiwork, fitting it so as to be conformable to, and modelled after, His own Son. For by the hands of the Fat…
I have learned, however, that certain persons from elsewhere have passed among you, having false doctrine, whom ye did not allow to sow seed among you, but stopped your ears that ye might not receive those things which were sown by them, as being stones of the temple of the Father, prepared for the building of God the Father.
Moreover, I will also tell you concerning the temple, how the wretched people, being deceived, set their hope on the building, and not on their God that made them, as being a house of God.
47. If then for our sake He sanctifies Himself, and does this when He has become man, it is very plain that the Spirit's descent on Him in Jordan was a descent upon us, because of His bearing our body. And it did not take place for promotion to the Word, but again for our sanctification, that we might share His anointing, and of us it might be said, 'Do you not know that you ar…
Without grace, can man know anything? Without God's grace, can man do or wish any good? Without grace, can man love God above all things? Without grace, can man keep the commandments of the Law? Without grace, can he merit eternal life? Without grace, can man prepare himself for grace? Without grace, can he rise from sin? Without grace, can man avoid sin? Having received grace,…
Q. What do you believe concerning the Holy Spirit? A. First, he, as well as the Father and the Son, is eternal God. Second, he has been given to me personally, so that, by true faith, he makes me share in Christ and all his blessings, comforts me, and remains with me forever.
Since God as Spirit is in essence invisible and immense, he cannot really be expressed by any art or image. For this reason we are not afraid to say with Scripture that images of God are mere lies. Therefore we reject not only the idols of the Gentiles, but also the images of Christians. Although Christ assumed human nature, yet he did not on that account assume it in order to …
The bodies of the faithful, as being the temples of the Holy Spirit, which we truly believe shall rise again at the last day, Scripture commands us to commit honorably to the earth, without superstition, and to make honorable mention of those who died in the Lord. We do not approve of those who show an excessive care for the dead, who are over-anxious for their condition, and w…
To the saints honour must be paid as friends of Christ, as sons and heirs of God: in the words of John the theologian and evangelist, As many as received Him, to them gave He power to became sons of God. John 1:12 So that they are no longer servants, but sons: and if sons, also heirs, heirs of God and joint heirs with Christ : and the Lord in the holy Gospels says to His apostl…

Cross-references

  • 1Cor 3:9 — For we are labourers together with God: ye are God’s husbandry, ye are God’s building.
  • 1Cor 5:6 — Your glorying is not good. Know ye not that a little leaven leaveneth the whole lump?
  • 1Cor 6:2 — Do ye not know that the saints shall judge the world? and if the world shall be judged by you, are ye unworthy to judge the smallest matters?
  • 1Cor 6:9 — Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind,
  • 1Cor 6:9 — Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind,
  • 1Cor 6:13 — Meats for the belly, and the belly for meats: but God shall destroy both it and them. Now the body is not for fornication, but for the Lord; and the Lord for the body.
  • 1Cor 6:16 — What? know ye not that he which is joined to an harlot is one body? for two, saith he, shall be one flesh.
  • 1Cor 6:19 — 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?
  • 1Cor 6:19 — 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?
  • 1Cor 9:13 — Do ye not know that they which minister about holy things live of the things of the temple? and they which wait at the altar are partakers with the altar?
  • 1Cor 9:24 — Know ye not that they which run in a race run all, but one receiveth the prize? So run, that ye may obtain.
  • 1John 3:24 — And he that keepeth his commandments dwelleth in him, and he in him. And hereby we know that he abideth in us, by the Spirit which he hath given us.
  • 1John 4:12 — No man hath seen God at any time. If we love one another, God dwelleth in us, and his love is perfected in us.
  • 1John 4:13 — Hereby know we that we dwell in him, and he in us, because he hath given us of his Spirit.
  • 1John 4:15 — Whosoever shall confess that Jesus is the Son of God, God dwelleth in him, and he in God.
  • 1Pet 2:5 — Ye also, as lively stones, are built up a spiritual house, an holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God by Jesus Christ.
  • 1Pet 2:5 — Ye also, as lively stones, are built up a spiritual house, an holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God by Jesus Christ.
  • 2Chr 29:5 — And said unto them, Hear me, ye Levites, sanctify now yourselves, and sanctify the house of the LORD God of your fathers, and carry forth the filthiness out of the holy place.
  • 2Cor 3:8 — How shall not the ministration of the spirit be rather glorious?
  • 2Cor 6:16 — 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 p
  • 2Cor 6:16 — 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 p
  • 2Cor 13:5 — Examine yourselves, whether ye be in the faith; prove your own selves. Know ye not your own selves, how that Jesus Christ is in you, except ye be reprobates?
  • 2Cor 13:14 — The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the communion of the Holy Ghost, be with you all. Amen.
  • 2Tim 1:14 — That good thing which was committed unto thee keep by the Holy Ghost which dwelleth in us.
  • 2Tim 1:14 — That good thing which was committed unto thee keep by the Holy Ghost which dwelleth in us.
  • 2Tim 2:20 — But in a great house there are not only vessels of gold and of silver, but also of wood and of earth; and some to honour, and some to dishonour.
  • Col 1:27 — To whom God would make known what is the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles; which is Christ in you, the hope of glory:
  • Eph 2:21 — In whom all the building fitly framed together groweth unto an holy temple in the Lord:
  • Eph 2:21 — In whom all the building fitly framed together groweth unto an holy temple in the Lord:
  • Eph 2:22 — In whom ye also are builded together for an habitation of God through the Spirit.
  • Ezek 36:27 — 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.
  • Ezek 36:27 — 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.
  • Heb 3:6 — But Christ as a son over his own house; whose house are we, if we hold fast the confidence and the rejoicing of the hope firm unto the end.
  • Heb 3:6 — But Christ as a son over his own house; whose house are we, if we hold fast the confidence and the rejoicing of the hope firm unto the end.
  • Jas 4:4 — Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world is the enemy of God.
  • John 2:21 — But he spake of the temple of his body.
  • John 14:17 — Even the Spirit of truth; whom the world cannot receive, because it seeth him not, neither knoweth him: but ye know him; for he dwelleth with you, and shall be in you.
  • John 14:17 — Even the Spirit of truth; whom the world cannot receive, because it seeth him not, neither knoweth him: but ye know him; for he dwelleth with you, and shall be in you.
  • Ps 93:5 — Thy testimonies are very sure: holiness becometh thine house, O LORD, for ever.
  • Rev 11:1 — And there was given me a reed like unto a rod: and the angel stood, saying, Rise, and measure the temple of God, and the altar, and them that worship therein.