Parallel Verses
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.
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!
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.
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.
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 Know ye not that ye are a temple of God and the Spirit of God dwells in you? 17 If any man destroys the temple of God, God will destroy this man, for the temple of God is holy, which ye are. 18 Let not one man deceive himself. If any man among you seems to be wise in this age, let him become foolish so that he may become wise.
Cross References
Genesis 28:17
And he was afraid, and said, How awesome is this place! This is none other than the house of God, and this is the gate of heaven.
Exodus 3:5
And he said, Do not draw near here. Put off thy shoes from off thy feet, for the place on which thou stand is holy ground.
Leviticus 15:31
Thus ye shall separate the sons of Israel from their uncleanness, that they not die in their uncleanness when they defile my tabernacle that is in the midst of them.
Leviticus 20:3
I also will set my face against that man, and will cut him off from among his people, because he has given of his seed to Molech, to defile my sanctuary, and to profane my holy name.
Numbers 19:20
But the man who shall be unclean, and shall not purify himself, that soul shall be cut off from the midst of the assembly, because he has defiled the sanctuary of LORD. The water for impurity has not been sprinkled upon him; he is
1 Chronicles 29:3
Moreover also, because I have set my affection on the house of my God, seeing that I have a treasure of my own of gold and silver, I give it to the house of my God over and above all that I have prepared for the holy house,
Psalm 74:3
Lift up thy feet to the perpetual ruins, all the evil that the enemy has done in the sanctuary.
Psalm 79:1
O God, the nations have come into thine inheritance. They have defiled thy holy temple. They have laid Jerusalem in heaps.
Psalm 93:5
Thy testimonies are very sure. Holiness befits thy house, O LORD, for evermore.
Psalm 99:9
Exalt ye LORD our God, and worship at his holy hill. For LORD our God is holy.
Isaiah 64:11
Our holy and our beautiful house, where our fathers praised thee, is burned with fire, and all our pleasant places are laid waste.
Ezekiel 5:11
Therefore, as I live, says lord LORD, surely, because thou have defiled my sanctuary with all thy detestable things, and with all thine abominations, therefore I also will diminish [thee], nor shall my eye spare. And I also will ha
Ezekiel 7:22
I will also turn my face from them, and they shall profane my secluded [place]. And robbers shall enter into it, and profane it.
Ezekiel 23:38-39
Moreover they have done this to me: They have defiled my sanctuary in the same day, and have profaned my Sabbaths.
Ezekiel 43:12
This is the law of the house. Upon the top of the mountain the whole limit of it round about shall be most holy. Behold, this is the law of the house.
Zephaniah 3:4
Her prophets are airy and treacherous men. Her priests have profaned the sanctuary. They have done violence to the law.
1 Corinthians 6:18-20
Flee fornication. Every sin, whatever a man may do, is outside the body, but he who fornicates sins against his own body.