1 Corinthians 6:19 (WEB)
Or don’t you know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have from God? You are not your own,
As quoted in the map (KJV)
1 Corinthians 6:19 (KJV)
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?
Key words
- ναὸς τοῦ ἐν ὑμῖν ἁγίου πνεύματοςnaos tou en hymin hagiou pneumatos · Greek
- 'the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you' — the believer's body as a sanctuary.
Why it matters
The Christian's body is a temple of the Holy Spirit. Pitre ends the Ark chapter with this verse (p 65): Jesus died and rose so that every person's body can be transformed by grace into a temple, and Mary's Assumption shows that bodily resurrection and ascension into heaven are not for Jesus alone but for us too.
Catechism · 5
"I Believe in the Resurrection of the Body"
“So glorify God in your body.” — Catechism footnote: 1 Cor 6:13-15, 19-20.
The Sacrament of Baptism
“Baptism not only purifies from all sins, but also makes the neophyte "a new creature," an adopted son of God, who has become a "partaker of the divine nature," member of Christ and coheir with him, and a temple of the Holy Spirit.” — Catechism footnote: Cf. 1 Cor 6:19.
“Having become a member of the Church, the person baptized belongs no longer to himself, but to him who died and rose for us.” — Catechism footnote: Cf. 1 Cor 6:19; 2 Cor 5:15.
Life in Christ
“"Justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and in the Spirit of our God," "sanctified . . . (and) called to be saints," Christians have become the temple of the Holy Spirit.” — Catechism footnote: Cf. 1 Cor 6:19.
Man
“The human body shares in the dignity of "the image of God": it is a human body precisely because it is animated by a spiritual soul, and it is the whole human person that is intended to become, in the body of Christ, a temple of the Spirit:” — Catechism footnote: Cf. I Cor 6:19-20; 15:44-45.
Fathers and councils · 25
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“…are not your own;” immediately opposing (thereto), “for bought ye are with a price”—the blood, to wit, of the Lord: “glorify and extol the Lord in your body.”” — editor's note: 1 Cor. vi. 19, 20, not exactly.
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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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 have been confined in bodies as in barrows or tombs, to pay the penalty for their former sins; and that the bodies of believers are not temples of Christ, but prisons of the condemned?” — editor's note: 1 Cor. vi. 15, 19.
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Cyril of Jerusalem
“It is not I that say this, but the Apostle Paul hath said, Know ye not, that your bodies are the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you?” — editor's note: 1 Cor. vi. 19.
Read the whole comment“But let us remember Paul’s saying, Know ye not that your bodies are the temples of the Holy Ghost which is in you?” — editor's note: 1 Cor. vi. 19.
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Ambrose of Milan
“We are not, then, to suppose that the Father Who raised the flesh is alone [God]; nor, again, are we to suppose the like of the Son, Whose Body was raised again.” — editor's note: “Body”—in the orig. “templum.” Cf. 1 Cor. vi. 19.
Read the whole comment“For it is written: “Your members are temples of the Holy Spirit.”” — editor's note: 1 Cor. vi. 19.
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Basil the Great
““You are the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you.”” — editor's note: 1 Cor. vi. 19.
Read the whole comment“It follows that the Spirit is verily the place of the saints and the saint is the proper place for the Spirit, offering himself as he does for the indwelling of God, and called God’s Temple.” — editor's note: 1 Cor. vi. 19.
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Augustine of Hippo
“The Apostle says, “Know ye not that your bodies are the temple within you of the Holy Ghost, Whom ye have of God?”” — editor's note: 1 Cor. vi. 19
Read the whole comment“Forsooth unto all the faithful it was said, “Know ye not that your bodies are a temple of the Holy Ghost within you, Whom ye have from God?”” — editor's note: 1 Cor. vi. 19
Read the whole comment“Whence, also, a little after he saith, “Your body is the temple within you of the Holy Spirit, Whom ye have from God; and ye are not your own; for ye have been bought with a great price.”” — editor's note: 1 Cor. vi. 19, 20
Read the whole comment“And accordingly the apostle says, “Therefore glorify God in your body.”” — editor's note: 1 Cor. vi. 19, 15, 20
Read the whole comment“…glorify God in your body;” when he had said above, “Know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost, which is in you, which ye have of God?” and these three are one God, as catholic soundness believes: it is not sufficiently apparent which person of the Trinity that angel bare, if he was one of the…” — editor's note: 1 Cor. vi. 20, 19
Read the whole comment“For ye are bought with a great price: therefore glorify God in your body.”” — editor's note: 1 Cor. vi. 19, 20
Read the whole comment““Know ye not,” says the same Apostle, “that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God?”” — editor's note: 1 Cor. vi. 19.
Read the whole comment“And again, “Know ye not that your bodies are the temples of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God?”” — editor's note: 1 Cor. vi. 19.
Read the whole comment“Now He has a temple, of which the apostle says: “Know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost, which is in you, which ye have of God?”” — editor's note: 1 Cor. vi. 19
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Cyprian of Carthage
“Paul tells us in his epistles, in which he has formed us to a course of living by divine teaching, “Ye are not your own, for ye are bought with a great price; glorify and bear God in your body.”” — editor's note: 1 Cor. vi. 19.
Read the whole comment“Glorify and bear God in your body.”” — editor's note: 1 Cor. vi. 19, 20.
Read the whole comment“Glorify and bear the Lord in your body.”” — editor's note: 1 Cor. vi. 18–20.
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Gregory of Nazianzus
“And these two matters do not divide the Substance, as I understand it, but rather are divisions within the Substance.” — editor's note: Job xxxviii. 4, Ps. v. 10, xxxvi., cxxxix. 7–15, cxlii., Isa. xi. 1–3, xlviii. 16, Mal. iii. 6, Wisd. i. 2, John i. 14, iii. 24, xv. 26, xvi. 14, 15, Acts…
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Cited together in Catechism §1265.
Cited together in Catechism §1695.
Cited together in A Treatise on the Soul Chapter 53.
Cited together in Catechism §1265.
Cited together in Catechism §1265 and 1 other place.
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Cited together in Catechism §1695.
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Cited together in Catechism §1269.
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Cited together in Exposition of the Christian Faith III.2.
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Cited together in On the Creed Chapter 13.
Cited together in On the Holy Spirit III.12.
Cited together in To His Wife II.3.
Cited together in Exposition of the Christian Faith III.2 and 1 other place.
Cited together in Catechism §1269.
Cited together in Catechism §1269.
Cited together in Catechism §1269.
Cited together in Catechism §1269.
Cited together in On the Creed Chapter 13.
Cited together in On the Creed Chapter 13.
Cited together in Catechism §1265.
Cited together in Catechism §1695.
Cited together in On the Holy Spirit III.12 and 2 other places.
Cited together in To His Wife II.3.