5 Bible Verses about A Believers Body As A Temple
Most Relevant Verses
Know you not that you are a temple of God and the Spirit of God dwells in you? If any one destroys the temple of God, him shall God destroy; for the temple of God which you are is holy.
Know you not that your bodies are Christ's members? Shall I then take the members of Christ and make them a harlot's members? by no means. Know you not that he who is joined to a harlot is one body [with her]? For the two, says he, shall be one flesh. But he that is joined to the Lord is one spirit [with him].read more.
Avoid fornication. Every crime that a man commits is out of his body; but he that commits fornication sins in his body. Know you not that your bodies are a temple of the Holy Spirit in you which you have from God, and you are not your own? For you are bought with a price; therefore glorify God in your body.
Be not unequally yoked with unbelievers; for what participation has righteousness with wickedness? or what communion has light with darkness? and what agreement has Christ with Beliar, or what part has a believer with an unbeliever? and what agreement has a temple of God with idols? For you are a temple of the living God; as God said, I will dwell in them, and I will walk in them, and I will be to them a God and they shall be to me a people.read more.
Go out therefore from among them, and be separate, says the Lord, and touch not the impure; and I will receive you, and will be to you a father, and you shall be to me sons and daughters, says the Lord Almighty.
Therefore you are no longer strangers and foreigners, but you are fellow-citizens of the saints and of the family of God, being built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ himself being the chief corner-stone, by which all the building being fitted together grows into a holy temple in the Lord,read more.
in which you also are built up together for a spiritual habitation of God.
do you also yourselves be built up living stones, a spiritual house, a holy priesthood, to offer spiritual sacrifices well pleasing to God through Jesus Christ,
