1 Corinthians 3:17

Divisiveness And Immaturity

¹⁶ have ye not known that ye are a sanctuary of God, and the Spirit of God doth dwell in you? ¹⁷ if any one the sanctuary of God doth waste, him shall God waste; for the sanctuary of God is holy, the which ye are. ¹⁸ Let no one deceive himself; if any one doth seem to be wise among you in this age -- let him become a fool, that he may become wise,

Defile the Temple

House of God

Set Apart

Temple of God

O God

Genesis 28:17

and he feareth, and saith, 'How fearful is this place; this is nothing but a house of God, and this a gate of the heavens.'

Exodus 3:5

And He saith, 'Come not near hither: cast thy shoes from off thy feet, for the place on which thou art standing is holy ground.'

Leviticus 15:31

And ye have separated the sons of Israel from their uncleanness, and they die not in their uncleanness, in their defiling My tabernacle which is in their midst.

Leviticus 20:3

and I -- I set My face against that man, and have cut him off from the midst of his people, for of his seed he hath given to the Molech, so as to defile My sanctuary, and to pollute My holy name.

Numbers 19:20

And the man who is unclean, and doth not cleanse himself, even that person hath been cut off from the midst of the assembly; for the sanctuary of Jehovah he hath defiled; water of separation is not sprinkled upon him; he is unclean.

1 Chronicles 29:3

And again, because of my delighting in the house of my God, the substance I have -- a peculiar treasure of gold and silver -- I have given for the house of my God, even over and above all I have prepared for the house of the sanctuary:

Psalm 74:3

Lift up Thy steps to the perpetual desolations, Everything the enemy did wickedly in the sanctuary.

Psalm 79:1

A Psalm of Asaph. O God, nations have come into Thy inheritance, They have defiled Thy holy temple, They made Jerusalem become heaps,

Psalm 93:5

Thy testimonies have been very stedfast, To Thy house comely is holiness, O Jehovah, for length of days!

Psalm 99:9

Exalt ye Jehovah our God, And bow yourselves at His holy hill, For holy is Jehovah our God!

Isaiah 64:11

Our holy and our beautiful house, Where praise Thee did our fathers, Hath become burnt with fire, And all our desirable things have become a waste.

Ezekiel 5:11

Therefore, I live -- an affirmation of the Lord Jehovah: Because My sanctuary thou hast defiled, With all thy detestable things, And with all thine abominations, Mine eye pitieth not, and I also spare not. Do not even I also diminish?

Ezekiel 7:22

And I have turned My face from them, And they have polluted My hidden place, Yea, come into it have destroyers, and polluted it.

Ezekiel 23:38-39

Again, this they have done to Me, They defiled My sanctuary in that day, And My sabbaths they have polluted.

Ezekiel 43:12

This is a law of the house: on the top of the mountain, all its border all round about is most holy; lo, this is a law of the house.

Zephaniah 3:4

Her prophets unstable -- men of treachery, Her priests have polluted the sanctuary, They have violated the law.

1 Corinthians 6:18-20

flee the whoredom; every sin -- whatever a man may commit -- is without the body, and he who is committing whoredom, against his own body doth sin.