Parallel Verses
Bible in Basic English
If anyone makes the house of God unclean, God will put an end to him; for the house of God is holy, and you are his house.
New American Standard Bible
If any man destroys the
King James Version
If any man defile the temple of God, him shall God destroy; for the temple of God is holy, which temple ye are.
Holman Bible
If anyone destroys God’s sanctuary, God will destroy him;
International Standard Version
If anyone destroys God's sanctuary, God will destroy him, for God's sanctuary is holy. And you are that sanctuary!
A Conservative Version
If any man destroys the temple of God, God will destroy this man, for the temple of God is holy, which ye are.
American Standard Version
If any man destroyeth the temple of God, him shall God destroy; for the temple of God is holy, and such are ye.
Amplified
If anyone destroys the temple of God [corrupting it with false doctrine], God will destroy the destroyer; for the temple of God is holy (sacred), and that is what you are.
An Understandable Version
If any person destroys God's Temple, God will destroy him. For God's Temple is holy [i.e., set apart for His service], and you people are His [holy] Temple.
Anderson New Testament
If any man defile the temple of God, him shall God destroy: for the temple of God is holy, which temple you are.
Common New Testament
If any one destroys God's temple, God will destroy him. For God's temple is holy, and that temple you are.
Daniel Mace New Testament
if any man divide the temple of God, him shall God destroy: for you, who are the temple of God, are consecrated to him.
Darby Translation
If any one corrupt the temple of God, him shall God destroy; for the temple of God is holy, and such are ye.
Godbey New Testament
If any one destroys the temple of God, him will God destroy; for the temple of God is holy, which ye are.
Goodspeed New Testament
If anyone destroys the temple of God, God will destroy him. For the temple of God is sacred, and that is what you are.
John Wesley New Testament
If any man destroy the temple of God, him shall God destroy: for the temple of God is holy, which temple ye are.
Julia Smith Translation
If any one destroy the temple of God, him will God destroy; for the temple of God is holy, which ye are.
King James 2000
If any man defiles the temple of God, him shall God destroy; for the temple of God is holy, which temple you are.
Lexham Expanded Bible
If anyone destroys God's temple, God will destroy this one. For God's temple is holy, which you are.
Modern King James verseion
If anyone defiles the temple of God, God shall destroy him. For the temple of God is holy, which you are.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
If any man defile the temple of God, him shall God destroy. For the temple of God is holy, which temple ye are.
Moffatt New Testament
God will destroy anyone who would destroy God's temple, for God's temple is sacred ??and that is what you are.
Montgomery New Testament
If any one tear down God's sanctuary, God will tear him down; for the sanctuary of God is holy, and that is what you are.
NET Bible
If someone destroys God's temple, God will destroy him. For God's temple is holy, which is what you are.
New Heart English Bible
If anyone destroys the temple of God, God will destroy him; for God's temple is holy, which you are.
Noyes New Testament
If any one defaceth the temple of God, God will deface him; for the temple of God is holy, and such are ye.
Sawyer New Testament
If any one destroys the temple of God, him shall God destroy; for the temple of God which you are is holy.
The Emphasized Bible
If anyone doth mar the shrine of God, God, will mar him; for the shrine of God is holy, - and such are ye.
Thomas Haweis New Testament
If any man prophane the temple of God, him will God destroy; for the temple of God is holy, which temple ye are.
Twentieth Century New Testament
If any one destroys the Temple of God, God will destroy him; for the Temple of God is sacred, and so also are you.
Webster
If any man defileth the temple of God, him will God destroy: for the temple of God is holy, which temple ye are.
Weymouth New Testament
If any one is marring the Sanctuary of God, him will God mar; for the Sanctuary of God is holy, which you all are.
Williams New Testament
If anyone destroys God's temple, God will destroy him. For God's temple is sacred to Him, and you are that temple.
World English Bible
If anyone destroys the temple of God, God will destroy him; for God's temple is holy, which you are.
Worrell New Testament
If any one destroys the temple of God, him will God destroy; for the temple of God is holy, and such are ye.
Worsley New Testament
If any one destroy the temple of God, him will God destroy: for the temple of God is holy, and this temple are ye.
Youngs Literal Translation
if any one the sanctuary of God doth waste, him shall God waste; for the sanctuary of God is holy, the which ye are.
Themes
Chastity » Breach of, punished
Church » Defiling of, will be punished
The church » Defiling of, will be punished
Defilement » Illustrative » Of unholy doctrines
Defilement » Those that defile the temple of God
Glory of the The church » Consist in its » Being the temple of God
Holy spirit » Where the holy spirit dwells
Topics
Interlinear
Tis
hostis
References
Word Count of 37 Translations in 1 Corinthians 3:17
Verse Info
Context Readings
Divisiveness And Immaturity
16 Do you not see that you are God's holy house, and that the Spirit of God has his place in you? 17 If anyone makes the house of God unclean, God will put an end to him; for the house of God is holy, and you are his house. 18 Let no man have a false idea. If any man seems to himself to be wise among you, let him become foolish, so that he may be wise.
Cross References
Genesis 28:17
And fear came on him, and he said, This is a holy place; this is nothing less than the house of God and the doorway of heaven.
Exodus 3:5
And he said, Do not come near: take off your shoes from your feet, for the place where you are is holy.
Leviticus 15:31
In this way may the children of Israel be made free from all sorts of unclean conditions, so that death may not overtake them when they are unclean and when they make unclean my holy place which is among them.
Leviticus 20:3
And my face will be turned against that man, and he will be cut off from his people; because he has given his offspring to Molech, making my holy place unclean, and making my holy name common.
Numbers 19:20
But the man who, being unclean, does not make himself clean in this way, will be cut off from the meeting of the people, because he has made the holy place of the Lord unclean: the water has not been put on him, he is unclean.
1 Chronicles 29:3
And because this house of God is dear to me, I give my private store of gold and silver to the house of my God, in addition to all I have got ready for the holy house;
Psalm 74:3
Go up and see the unending destruction; all the evil which your haters have done in the holy place;
Psalm 79:1
O God, the nations have come into your heritage; they have made your holy Temple unclean; they have made Jerusalem a mass of broken walls.
Psalm 93:5
Your witness is most certain; it is right for your house to be holy, O Lord, for ever.
Psalm 99:9
Give high honour to the Lord our God, worshipping with your faces turned to his holy hill; for the Lord our God is holy.
Isaiah 64:11
Our holy and beautiful house, where our fathers gave praise to you, is burned with fire; and all the things of our desire have come to destruction.
Ezekiel 5:11
For this cause, by my life, says the Lord, because you have made my holy place unclean with all your hated things and all your disgusting ways, you will become disgusting to me; my eye will have no mercy and I will have no pity.
Ezekiel 7:22
And my face will be turned away from them, and they will make my secret place unholy: violent men will go into it and make it unholy.
Ezekiel 23:38-39
Further, this is what she has done to me: she has made my holy place unclean and has made my Sabbaths unclean
Ezekiel 43:12
This is the law of the house: On the top of the mountain all the space round it on every side will be most holy. See, this is the law of the house.
Zephaniah 3:4
Her prophets are good-for-nothing persons, full of deceit: her priests have made the holy place unclean and have gone violently against the law.
1 Corinthians 6:18-20
Keep away from the desires of the flesh. Every sin which a man does is outside of the body; but he who goes after the desires of the flesh does evil to his body.