Bible Verses About Your Body Is a Temple
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These are the Bible verses most often cited for your body is a temple, ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community across 7,947 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 Your Body Is a Temple
1 Corinthians 6:19-20671 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 3:16-17448 votes
Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you?
1 Corinthians 6:19400 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?
Leviticus 19:28260 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 3:16256 votes
Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you?
2 Corinthians 6:16230 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.
1 Corinthians 6:20226 votes
For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God’s.
1 Corinthians 6:13193 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 7:1-40156 votes
Now concerning the things whereof ye wrote unto me: It is good for a man not to touch a woman.
Romans 12:1151 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 2:21148 votes
But he spake of the temple of his body.
1 Peter 2:5129 votes
Ye also, as lively stones, are built up a spiritual house, an holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God by Jesus Christ.
Ephesians 2:21-22113 votes
In whom all the building fitly framed together groweth unto an holy temple in the Lord:
1 Corinthians 6:18111 votes
Flee fornication. Every sin that a man doeth is without the body; but he that committeth fornication sinneth against his own body.
1 Corinthians 6:1-20108 votes
Dare any of you, having a matter against another, go to law before the unjust, and not before the saints?
1 Timothy 4:8108 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.
Ephesians 5:3103 votes
But fornication, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not be once named among you, as becometh saints;
Colossians 3:5101 votes
Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness, which is idolatry:
Romans 12:1-294 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.
2 Corinthians 7:188 votes
Having therefore these promises, dearly beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from all filthiness of the flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.
Luke 18:9-1487 votes
And he spake this parable unto certain which trusted in themselves that they were righteous, and despised others:
1 Corinthians 3:1787 votes
If any man defile the temple of God, him shall God destroy; for the temple of God is holy, which temple ye are.
Romans 12:278 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.
1 Corinthians 9:2776 votes
But I keep under my body, and bring it into subjection: lest that by any means, when I have preached to others, I myself should be a castaway.
1 Corinthians 10:3176 votes
Whether therefore ye eat, or drink, or whatsoever ye do, do all to the glory of God.
What does the Bible say about your body is a temple?
Readers most often cite 1 Corinthians 6:19-20 on the subject of your body is a temple. Across 7,947 votes, 25 passages are commonly cited for this topic, including 1 Corinthians 3:16-17, 1 Corinthians 6:19, Leviticus 19:28. This page lists all 25 in ranked order, quoted in the King James Version, with each linked to its cross-references.