Parallel Verses
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.
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.
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.
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 Are ye not aware that ye are the temple of God, and how that the spirit of God dwelleth in you? 17 If any man defile the temple of God, him shall God destroy. For the temple of God is holy, which temple ye are. 18 Let no man deceive himself. If any man seem wise among you, let him be a fool in this world, that he may be wise.
Cross References
Genesis 28:17
And he was afraid, and said, "How fearful is this place? It is none other, but even the house of God and the gate of heaven!"
Exodus 3:5
And he said, "Come not hither, but put thy shoes off thy feet: for the place whereon thou standest is holy ground."
Leviticus 15:31
"'Make the children of Israel to keep themselves from their uncleanness, that they die not in their uncleanness: when they have defiled my habitation that is among them.
Leviticus 20:3
And I will set my face upon that fellow, and will destroy him from among his people: because he hath given of his seed unto Moloch, for to defile my sanctuary and to pollute mine holy name.
Numbers 19:20
"'If any be unclean and sprinkle not himself, the same soul shall be destroyed from among the congregation: for he hath defiled the holy place of the LORD. And he that sprinkleth the sprinkling water, shall wash his clothes.
1 Chronicles 29:3
And yet because I have lust to the house of my God, I have several gold and silver which I give to the house of my God above all I have prepared for the holy house:
Psalm 74:3
Lift up thy feet, that thou mayest utterly destroy every enemy which hath done evil in thy sanctuary.
Psalm 79:1
{A Psalm of Asaph} O God, the heathen are come into thine inheritance; thy holy temple have they defiled, and made Jerusalem a heap of stones.
Psalm 93:5
Thy testimonies, O LORD, are very sure; holiness becometh thine house forever.
Psalm 99:9
O magnify the LORD our God, and worship him upon his holy hill; for the LORD our God is holy.
Isaiah 64:11
Our holy house which is our beauty, where our fathers praised thee, is burnt up: yea, all our commodities and pleasures are wasted away.
Ezekiel 5:11
Wherefore as truly as I live, sayeth the LORD God, seeing thou hast defiled my Sanctuary with all manner of abominations and with all thy shameful offenses: For this cause will I also destroy thee. Mine eye shall not oversee thee, neither will I spare thee.
Ezekiel 7:22
My face will I turn from them, my treasury shall be defiled: for the thieves shall go into it, and suspend it.
Ezekiel 23:38-39
Yea, and this have they done unto me also: they have defiled my Sanctuary in that same day, and have unhallowed my Sabbath.
Ezekiel 43:12
This is the description of the house: Above upon the mount round about all the corners, it shall be the holiest of all. Behold, that is the description and fashion of the house.
Zephaniah 3:4
Her prophets are light persons and unfaithful men: her priests unhallow the Sanctuary, and do wrong under the pretence of the law.
1 Corinthians 6:18-20
Flee fornication. All sins that a man doth, are without the body. But he that is a fornicator, sinneth against his own body.