1 CORINTHIANS 6:19 — KING JAMES VERSION 0
“What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own?”
Do you not know that your bodies are temples of the Holy Spirit, who is in you, whom you have received from God? — The temple imagery (naos) transfers the sanctity previously located in Jerusalem's sanctuary to the believer's body. The indwelling Spirit (to pneuma ho oikeō en humin) constitutes believers as sacred space. This is not metaphor but theological reality: the Spirit's presence makes the body a holy place. Sexual immorality thus desecrates a temple, violating the presence of God within.
Church Fathers on 1 Corinthians 6:19
“Do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you?” He did not merely say, “of the Spirit,” but, “which is in you;” which was the part of one who also was soothing. And again, explaining himself still further, he added, “which you have from God.” He mentioned Him that gave also, both exalting the hearer and putting him in fear, both by the magnitude of the deposit, and by the munificence of Him that made it. “And you are not your own.” This is not…
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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