Parallel Verses
NET Bible
If someone destroys God's temple, God will destroy him. For God's temple is holy, which is what you 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.
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.
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 know that you are God's temple and that God's Spirit lives in you? 17 If someone destroys God's temple, God will destroy him. For God's temple is holy, which is what you are. 18 Guard against self-deception, each of you. If someone among you thinks he is wise in this age, let him become foolish so that he can become wise.
Cross References
Genesis 28:17
He was afraid and said, "What an awesome place this is! This is nothing else than the house of God! This is the gate of heaven!"
Exodus 3:5
God said, "Do not approach any closer! Take your sandals off your feet, for the place where you are standing is holy ground."
Leviticus 15:31
"'Thus you are to set the Israelites apart from their impurity so that they do not die in their impurity by defiling my tabernacle which is in their midst.
Leviticus 20:3
I myself will set my face against that man and cut him off from the midst of his people, because he has given some of his children to Molech and thereby defiled my sanctuary and profaned my holy name.
Numbers 19:20
But the man who is unclean and does not purify himself, that person must be cut off from among the community, because he has polluted the sanctuary of the Lord; the water of purification was not sprinkled on him, so he is unclean.
1 Chronicles 29:3
Now, to show my commitment to the temple of my God, I donate my personal treasure of gold and silver to the temple of my God, in addition to all that I have already supplied for this holy temple.
Psalm 74:3
Hurry and look at the permanent ruins, and all the damage the enemy has done to the temple!
Psalm 79:1
A psalm of Asaph. O God, foreigners have invaded your chosen land; they have polluted your holy temple and turned Jerusalem into a heap of ruins.
Psalm 93:5
The rules you set down are completely reliable. Holiness aptly adorns your house, O Lord, forever.
Psalm 99:9
Praise the Lord our God! Worship on his holy hill, for the Lord our God is holy!
Isaiah 64:11
Our holy temple, our pride and joy, the place where our ancestors praised you, has been burned with fire; all our prized possessions have been destroyed.
Ezekiel 5:11
"Therefore, as surely as I live, says the sovereign Lord, because you defiled my sanctuary with all your detestable idols and with all your abominable practices, I will withdraw; my eye will not pity you, nor will I spare you.
Ezekiel 7:22
I will turn my face away from them and they will desecrate my treasured place. Vandals will enter it and desecrate it.
Ezekiel 23:38-39
Moreover, they have done this to me: In the very same day they desecrated my sanctuary and profaned my Sabbaths.
Ezekiel 43:12
"This is the law of the temple: The entire area on top of the mountain all around will be most holy. Indeed, this is the law of the temple.
Zephaniah 3:4
Her prophets are proud; they are deceitful men. Her priests defile what is holy; they break God's laws.
1 Corinthians 6:18-20
Flee sexual immorality! "Every sin a person commits is outside of the body" -- but the immoral person sins against his own body.