Bible Verses About Body Is a Temple
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These are the Bible verses most often cited for body is a temple, ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community across 2,339 votes, led by 1 Corinthians 6:19-20. Each passage links to its verse page or the interactive map; scripture is the King James Version.
Top verses about Body Is a Temple
1 Corinthians 6:19-20242 votes
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?
1 Corinthians 6:19171 votes
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?
1 Corinthians 3:16-17165 votes
Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you?
1 Corinthians 6:2095 votes
For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God’s.
1 Corinthians 3:1693 votes
Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you?
Leviticus 19:2890 votes
Ye shall not make any cuttings in your flesh for the dead, nor print any marks upon you: I am the Lord.
1 Corinthians 6:1874 votes
Flee fornication. Every sin that a man doeth is without the body; but he that committeth fornication sinneth against his own body.
Romans 12:272 votes
And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.
Romans 12:164 votes
I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service.
John 2:2152 votes
But he spake of the temple of his body.
2 Corinthians 6:1650 votes
And what agreement hath the temple of God with idols? for ye are the temple of the living God; as God hath said, I will dwell in them, and walk in them; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people.
2 Timothy 2:2248 votes
Flee also youthful lusts: but follow righteousness, faith, charity, peace, with them that call on the Lord out of a pure heart.
Ephesians 5:2944 votes
For no man ever yet hated his own flesh; but nourisheth and cherisheth it, even as the Lord the church:
1 Corinthians 6:1343 votes
Meats for the belly, and the belly for meats: but God shall destroy both it and them. Now the body is not for fornication, but for the Lord; and the Lord for the body.
1 Corinthians 7:1-4041 votes
Now concerning the things whereof ye wrote unto me: It is good for a man not to touch a woman.
Revelation 1:139 votes
The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave unto him, to shew unto his servants things which must shortly come to pass; and he sent and signified it by his angel unto his servant John:
1 Timothy 2:938 votes
In like manner also, that women adorn themselves in modest apparel, with shamefacedness and sobriety; not with broided hair, or gold, or pearls, or costly array;
2 Corinthians 5:1737 votes
Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.
1 Corinthians 6:335 votes
Know ye not that we shall judge angels? how much more things that pertain to this life?
Philippians 1:2029 votes
According to my earnest expectation and my hope, that in nothing I shall be ashamed, but that with all boldness, as always, so now also Christ shall be magnified in my body, whether it be by life, or by death.
1 Timothy 4:829 votes
For bodily exercise profiteth little: but godliness is profitable unto all things, having promise of the life that now is, and of that which is to come.
Colossians 3:528 votes
Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness, which is idolatry:
1 Corinthians 10:3127 votes
Whether therefore ye eat, or drink, or whatsoever ye do, do all to the glory of God.
1 Corinthians 15:4427 votes
It is sown a natural body; it is raised a spiritual body. There is a natural body, and there is a spiritual body.
Matthew 10:2826 votes
And fear not them which kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul: but rather fear him which is able to destroy both soul and body in hell.
What does the Bible say about body is a temple?
Readers most often cite 1 Corinthians 6:19-20 on the subject of body is a temple. Across 2,339 votes, 25 passages are commonly cited for this topic, including 1 Corinthians 6:19, 1 Corinthians 3:16-17, 1 Corinthians 6:20. This page lists all 25 in ranked order, quoted in the King James Version, with each linked to its cross-references.