Anakalypsis / Unveiling the Word

1 Corinthians 3:17

If any man defile the temple of God, him shall God destroy; for the temple of God is holy, which temple ye are.

KJV

εἴ τις τὸν ναὸν τοῦ θεοῦ φθείρει, φθερεῖ τοῦτον ὁ θεός· ὁ γὰρ ναὸς τοῦ θεοῦ ἅγιός ἐστιν, οἵτινές ἐστε ὑμεῖς.

Greek NT

Si quis autem templum Dei violaverit, disperdet illum Deus. Templum enim Dei sanctum est, quod estis vos.

Vulgate

If any man destroyeth the temple of God, him shall God destroy; for the temple of God is holy, and such are ye.

ASV

But if any man violate the temple of God, him shall God destroy. For the temple of God is holy, which you are.

Douay-Rheims

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In the original Greek

12 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.

γάρ
gar
conjunction · 1036×
εἰ
ei
conditional · 491×
εἰμί
eimi
verb · 2461×
θεός
theos
noun · 1311×
ναός
naos
noun · 45×
οὗτος
outos
demonstrative · 1380×
τὶς
tis
indefinite_pronoun · 527×
φθείρω
phtheiro
verb · 9×
ἅγιος
agios
adjective · 233×
ὁ
o
article · 19778×
ὅστις
ostis
relative_pronoun · 146×
ὑμεῖς
umeis
pronoun · 1828×

Historic Christian voices

9 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…
Vain attempts of Marcion and his followers, who exclude Abraham from the salvation bestowed by Christ, who liberated not only Abraham, but the seed of Abraham, by fulfilling and not destroying the law when He healed on the Sabbath day. 1. Vain, too, is [the effort of] Marcion and his followers when they [seek to] exclude Abraham from the inheritance, to whom the Spirit through …
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…
Chapter 8.—Of the Promises Made to David in His Son, Which are in No Wise Fulfilled in Solomon, But Most Fully in Christ. And now I see I must show what, pertaining to the matter I treat of, God promised to David himself, who succeeded Saul in the kingdom, whose change prefigured that final change on account of which all things were divinely spoken, all things were committed to…
To teach rules for the interpretation of Scripture is not a superfluous task 1. There are certain rules for the interpretation of Scripture which I think might with great advantage be taught to earnest students of the word, that they may profit not only from reading the works of others who have laid open the secrets of the sacred writings, but also from themselves opening such …
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 6:18 — Flee fornication. Every sin that a man doeth is without the body; but he that committeth fornication sinneth against his own body.
  • 1Pet 2:9 — But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should shew forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvellous light:
  • Exod 3:5 — And he said, Draw not nigh hither: put off thy shoes from off thy feet, for the place whereon thou standest is holy ground.
  • Exod 19:6 — And ye shall be unto me a kingdom of priests, and an holy nation. These are the words which thou shalt speak unto the children of Israel.
  • Ezek 5:11 — Wherefore, as I live, saith the Lord GOD; Surely, because thou hast defiled my sanctuary with all thy detestable things, and with all thine abominations, therefore will I also diminish thee; neither s
  • Ezek 7:22 — My face will I turn also from them, and they shall pollute my secret place: for the robbers shall enter into it, and defile it.
  • Ezek 23:38 — Moreover this they have done unto me: they have defiled my sanctuary in the same day, and have profaned my sabbaths.
  • Ezek 43:12 — This is the law of the house; Upon the top of the mountain the whole limit thereof round about shall be most holy. Behold, this is the law of the house.
  • Gen 28:17 — And he was afraid, and said, How dreadful is this place! this is none other but the house of God, and this is the gate of heaven.
  • Isa 64:11 — Our holy and our beautiful house, where our fathers praised thee, is burned up with fire: and all our pleasant things are laid waste.
  • Jude 1:8 — Likewise also these filthy dreamers defile the flesh, despise dominion, and speak evil of dignities.
  • Lev 15:31 — Thus shall ye separate the children of Israel from their uncleanness; that they die not in their uncleanness, when they defile my tabernacle that is among them.
  • Lev 15:31 — Thus shall ye separate the children of Israel from their uncleanness; that they die not in their uncleanness, when they defile my tabernacle that is among them.
  • Lev 18:24 — Defile not ye yourselves in any of these things: for in all these the nations are defiled which I cast out before you:
  • Lev 20:3 — And I will set my face against that man, and will cut him off from among his people; because he hath given of his seed unto Molech, to defile my sanctuary, and to profane my holy name.
  • Mark 7:23 — All these evil things come from within, and defile the man.
  • Num 19:20 — But the man that shall be unclean, and shall not purify himself, that soul shall be cut off from among the congregation, because he hath defiled the sanctuary of the LORD: the water of separation hath
  • Ps 79:1 — O GOD, the heathen are come into thine inheritance; thy holy temple have they defiled; they have laid Jerusalem on heaps.
  • Ps 99:9 — Exalt the LORD our God, and worship at his holy hill; for the LORD our God is holy.