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1 Corinthians 3:16

Do you not know that you yourselves are God’s temple, and that God’s Spirit dwells in you?

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ASV

Know ye not that ye are a temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you?

KJV

Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you?

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1 Corinthians 6:19Do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have received from God? You are not your own;Ezekiel 36:27And I will put My Spirit within you and cause you to walk in My statutes and to carefully observe My ordinances.2 Corinthians 6:16What agreement can exist between the temple of God and idols? For we are the temple of the living God. As God has said: “I will dwell with them and walk among them, and I will be their God, and they will be My people.”Romans 8:11And if the Spirit of Him who raised Jesus from the dead is living in you, He who raised Christ Jesus from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through His Spirit, who lives in you.Ephesians 2:21–22In Him the whole building is fitted together and grows into a holy temple in the Lord.Romans 8:9You, however, are controlled not by the flesh, but by the Spirit, if the Spirit of God lives in you. And if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, he does not belong to Christ.John 14:17the Spirit of truth. The world cannot receive Him, because it neither sees Him nor knows Him. But you do know Him, for He abides with you and will be in you.1 Peter 2:5you also, like living stones, are being built into a spiritual house to be a holy priesthood, offering spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.2 Timothy 1:14Guard the treasure entrusted to you, with the help of the Holy Spirit who dwells in us.1 John 4:15–16If anyone confesses that Jesus is the Son of God, God abides in him, and he in God.Colossians 1:27To them God has chosen to make known among the Gentiles the glorious riches of this mystery, which is Christ in you, the hope of glory.Hebrews 3:6But Christ is faithful as the Son over God’s house. And we are His house, if we hold firmly to our confidence and the hope of which we boast.1 John 4:12No one has ever seen God; but if we love one another, God remains in us, and His love is perfected in us.1 Corinthians 3:9For we are God’s fellow workers; you are God’s field, God’s building.Romans 6:3Or aren’t you aware that all of us who were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into His death?1 John 3:24Whoever keeps His commandments remains in God, and God in him. And by this we know that He remains in us: by the Spirit He has given us.1 Corinthians 9:24Do you not know that in a race all the runners run, but only one receives the prize? Run in such a way as to take the prize.Ephesians 2:22And in Him you too are being built together into a dwelling place for God in His Spirit.

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