1 Corinthians 3:16-17
What is written? (ESV)
Do you not know that you are God’s temple and that God’s Spirit dwells in you? If anyone destroys God’s temple, God will destroy him. For God’s temple is holy, and you are that temple.
What does it say?
Don’t you know that you are God’s temple and the Holy Spirit dwells in you? If anyone destroys God’s temple, God will destroy them because it is holy. You are that temple!
What is its immediate context?
Paul is in the midst of correcting the divisions (“I am of…” vs 4) that had arisen in the church in Corinth. In this context, Paul is clearly speaking of them as a collective group (“body”) or local church that he planted and Apollos watered (vs 6). In these first four chapters, he emphasizes the need for them to rely upon the word of God that he had shared with them as the foundation to solve these issues.
How 1 Corinthians 3:16-17 is applied across Bible answers
Top 5: Images of the church?
The church is God's holy temple, where the Holy Spirit dwells and protects.
Where is the Holy Spirit dwelling today?
Paul states that they, as a local church, are a temple of God in which the Holy Spirit dwells.
