1 Corinthians 3:16 (WEB)
Don’t you know that you are God’s temple and that God’s Spirit lives in you?
Catechism · 1
- §797Paragraph 2 · The Church - People of God, Body of Christ, Temple of the Holy SpiritRead at vatican.va
“The Holy Spirit makes the Church "the temple of the living God":” — Catechism footnote: 2 Cor 6:16; cf. 1 Cor 3:16-17; Eph 2:21.
Fathers and councils · 30
Tertullian
“In Platonic phrase, indeed, the body is a prison, but in the apostle’s it is “the temple of God,” because it is in Christ.” — editor's note: 1 Cor. iii. 16; vi. 19; 2 Cor. vi. 16.
Read the whole comment“It did not bear the names of “body of Christ,” of “members of Christ,” of “temple of God,” at the time when it used to obtain pardon for adultery.” — editor's note: 1 Cor. iii. 16; vi. 19.
Read the whole comment“…(Epistle) was the first of all (the apostles) to dedicate the temple of God: “Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that in you the Lord dwells?”—who likewise, for the consecrating and purifying (of) that temple, wrote the law pertaining to the temple-keepers: “If any shall have marred the temple of God,…” — editor's note: 1 Cor. iii. 16, inexactly.
Read the whole comment“However, let me meanwhile add that in the same passage Paul “carries about in his body the marks of the Lord Jesus;” he also forbids our body to be profaned, as being “the temple of God;” he makes our bodies “the members of Christ;” and he exhorts us to exalt and “glorify God in our body.”” — editor's note: 1 Cor. iii. 16.
Read the whole comment““Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you?”” — editor's note: 1 Cor. iii. 16.
Read the whole comment- Tertullian, To His Wife II.3Book II
“The admission of a strange man (to your couch) less violates “the temple of God,” less commingles “the members of Christ” with the members of an adulteress.” — editor's note: 1 Cor. iii. 16, comp. vi. 19.
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Irenaeus of Lyons
- Irenaeus of Lyons, Against Heresies Fragments from.40Fragments from the Lost Writings of Irenæus
“For thus, according to the holy apostle, the sin of fornication is perpetrated against the body, as involving also sin against the temple of God.” — editor's note: 1 Cor. iii. 16, 17.
Read the whole comment “If any man, therefore, will defile the temple of God, him will God destroy: for the temple of God is holy, which [temple] ye are.”” — editor's note: 1 Cor. iii. 16.
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Jerome
“John and James, because they asked more than the others, did not obtain it; and yet their dignity is not diminished, because they were equal to the rest of the apostles.“Know ye not that your bodies are a temple of the Holy Ghost?”” — editor's note: 1 Cor. iii. 16; vi. 19.
Read the whole comment“And again,“Know ye not that ye are a temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you?” — editor's note: 1 Cor. iii. 16, 17.
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Athanasius of Alexandria
“…‘that ye may be partakers in a divine nature;’ as says too the Apostle, ‘Know ye not, that ye are a temple of God?’ and, ‘We are the temple of a living God.’” — editor's note: 1 Cor. iii. 16; 2 Cor. vi. 16.
Read the whole comment“And it did not take place for promotion to the Word, but again for our sanctification, that we might share His anointing, and of us it might be said, ‘Know ye not that ye are God’s Temple, and the Spirit of God dwelleth in you?’” — editor's note: 1 Cor. iii. 16.
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John Damascene
“Further, that God dwelt even in their bodies in spiritual wise, the Apostle tells us, saying, Know ye not that your bodies are the temples of the Holy Spirit dwelling in you?, and The Lord is that Spirit, and If any one destroy the temple of God, him will God destroy.” — editor's note: 1 Cor. iii. 16.
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Cyprian of Carthage
“For inasmuch as the Apostle Paul says again, “Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you?”—even although love urged us less to bring help to the brethren, yet in this place we must have considered that it was the temples of God which were taken…” — editor's note: 1 Cor. iii. 16.
Read the whole comment“If any one violate the temple of God, him will God destroy.”” — editor's note: 1 Cor. iii. 16, 17.
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Augustine of Hippo
“For the temple of God is holy: which temple are ye.”” — editor's note: 1 Cor. iii. 16, 17
Read the whole comment“But that the Holy Spirit is God, Scripture proclaims by the apostle, who says, “Know ye not that ye are the temple of God?” and immediately subjoins, “And the Spirit of God dwelleth in you;” for God dwelleth in His own temple.” — editor's note: 1 Cor. iii. 16
Read the whole comment“…the Apostle Paul, when a little while after he is rebuking them, saith, “Know ye not that ye are the temples of God, and the Spirit of God dwelleth in you?”” — editor's note: 1 Cor. iii. 16.
Read the whole comment“If any man defile the temple of God, him will God destroy.”” — editor's note: 1 Cor. iii. 16, 17.
Read the whole comment““Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and the Spirit of God dwelleth in you?”” — editor's note: 1 Cor. iii. 16.
Read the whole comment“Nor has He one temple, and God another, seeing that the same apostle says: “Know ye not that ye are the temple of God?” and adds, as proof of this, “and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you.”” — editor's note: 1 Cor. iii. 16
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Basil the Great
“Do you not, O man, fear the Apostle when he says “Ye are the temple of God, and the Spirit of God dwelleth in you”?” — editor's note: 1 Cor. iii. 16.
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Ambrose of Milan
“For it is written: “Ye are the temple of God, and the Holy Spirit dwelleth in you.”” — editor's note: 1 Cor. iii. 16.
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John Cassian
“And again: “Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and the Spirit of God dwelleth in you?”” — editor's note: 1 Cor. iii. 16.
Read the whole comment“…that spiritual temple of which Paul as a wise master builder laid the foundations, saying, “Ye are the temple of God, and the Spirit of God dwelleth in you:” and what the beams of this are like the bride tells us in the Song of Songs: “Our rafters are of cypress: the beams of our houses are of cedar.”” — editor's note: 1 Cor. iii. 16; vi. 16.
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Gregory of Nazianzus
“Perhaps in it they will be baptized with Fire, in that last Baptism which is more painful and longer, which devours wood like grass, and consumes the stubble of every evil.” — editor's note: 1 Cor. iii. 12–19.
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Aphrahat
“And also the Blessed Apostle thus said:—Ye are the temple of God and the spirit of Christ dwelleth in you.” — editor's note: 1 Cor. iii. 16, etc.
Read the whole comment“Whosoever is called the temple of God, let him purify his body from all uncleanness.” — editor's note: 1 Cor. iii. 16, 17.
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Leo the Great
“For if we “are a temple of God, and the Spirit of God dwelleth in” us, what every one of the faithful has in his own heart is more than what he wonders at in heaven.” — editor's note: 1 Cor. iii. 16.
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Clement of Alexandria
““Know ye not,” says the apostle, “that ye are the temple of God?”” — editor's note: 1 Cor. iii. 16.
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Cross-references · 26
Cited together in To His Wife II.3.
Cited together in Against Heresies V.6.
Cited together in Against Heresies V.6.
Cited together in On the Resurrection of the Flesh Chapter 10 and 2 other places.
Cited together in On the Holy Spirit III.12 and 2 other places.
Cited together in On the Resurrection of the Flesh Chapter 10 and 1 other place.
Cited together in On the Holy Spirit Chapter 20.
Cited together in On the Holy Spirit III.12.
Cited together in Catechism §797 and 2 other places.
Cited together in Catechism §797.
Cited together in Against Heresies V.6.
Cited together in Three Books of Testimonies Against the Jews III.28.
Cited together in On the Holy Spirit III.12.
Cited together in The Stromata, or Miscellanies VII.13.
Cited together in The Stromata, or Miscellanies VII.13.
Cited together in Against the Arians I.4.
Cited together in The Institutes IX.3.
Cited together in On the Resurrection of the Flesh Chapter 10.
Cited together in On the Resurrection of the Flesh Chapter 10.
Cited together in On the Holy Spirit III.12.
Cited together in To His Wife II.3.
Cited together in Against Heresies V.6 and 1 other place.
Cited together in Against Heresies V.6.
Cited together in Against Heresies V.6.
Cited together in Epistles Letter 59.
Cited together in Against Heresies V.6.