11 translations · Greek
1 Corinthians 3:16
Don’t you know that you are a temple of God, and that God’s Spirit lives in you?
1 Corinthians 3:16 in 11 translations
- WEB World English Bible
- Don’t you know that you are a temple of God, and that God’s Spirit lives in you?
- KJV King James Version
- Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you?
- BSB Berean Standard Bible
- Do you not know that you yourselves are God’s temple, and that God’s Spirit dwells in you?
- ASV American Standard Version
- Know ye not that ye are a temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you?
- LSV Literal Standard Version
- Have you not known that you are a temple of God, and the Spirit of God dwells in you?
- FBV Free Bible Version
- Don't you know you are God's temple and that God's Spirit lives in you?
- YLT Young’s Literal Translation
- have ye not known that ye are a sanctuary of God, and the Spirit of God doth dwell in you?
- DBY Darby Translation
- Do ye not know that ye are [the] temple of God, and [that] the Spirit of God dwells in you?
- WBT Webster’s Bible
- Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you?
- WEBC World English Bible (Catholic)
- Don’t you know that you are God’s temple and that God’s Spirit lives in you?
- DRA Douay-Rheims 1899
- Know you not, that you are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you?
The Greek words
Each word of the Greek text in order, with its transliteration, the Berean Standard Bible’s English for it, and its Strong’s number and short definition.
| Word | Transliteration | English (BSB) | Strong’s |
|---|---|---|---|
| Οὐκ | Ouk | — | G3756 οὐ no |
| οἴδατε | oidate | Do you not know | G1492 εἴδω to perceive: understand |
| ὅτι | hoti | that | G3754 ὅτι that/since: that |
| ναὸς | naos | temple | G3485 ναός temple |
| Θεοῦ | Theou | God’s | G2316 θεός God |
| ἐστε | este | you yourselves are | G1510 εἰμί to be |
| καὶ | kai | and that | G2532 καί and |
| τὸ | to | — | G3588 ὁ the/this/who |
| Πνεῦμα | Pneuma | Spirit | G4151 πνεῦμα spirit/breath: spirit |
| τοῦ | tou | — | G3588 ὁ the/this/who |
| Θεοῦ | Theou | God’s | G2316 θεός God |
| ἐν | en | in | G1722 ἐν in/on/among |
| ὑμῖν | hymin | you | G4771 σύ you |
| οἰκεῖ | oikei | dwells | G3611 οἰκέω to dwell |
Related verses
- 1 Corinthians 6:19
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,
- Ezekiel 36:27
I will put my Spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes. You will keep my ordinances and do them.
- 2 Corinthians 6:16
What agreement has a temple of God with idols? For you are a temple of the living God. Even as God said, “I will dwell in them, and walk in them; and I will be their God, and they will be my people.”
- Romans 8:11
But if the Spirit of him who raised up Jesus from the dead dwells in you, he who raised up Christ Jesus from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through his Spirit who dwells in you.
- Ephesians 2:21–22
in whom the whole building, fitted together, grows into a holy temple in the Lord; in whom you also are built together for a habitation of God in the Spirit.
- Romans 8:9
But you are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if it is so that the Spirit of God dwells in you. But if any man doesn’t have the Spirit of Christ, he is not his.
- John 14:17
the Spirit of truth, whom the world can’t receive; for it doesn’t see him, neither knows him. You know him, for he lives with you, and will be in you.
- 1 Peter 2:5
You also, as living stones, are built up as a spiritual house, to be a holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.
- 2 Timothy 1:14
That good thing which was committed to you, guard through the Holy Spirit who dwells in us.
- 1 John 4:15–16
Whoever confesses that Jesus is the Son of God, God remains in him, and he in God. We know and have believed the love which God has for us. God is love, and he who remains in love remains in God, and God remains in him.
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In context
14 If any man’s work remains which he built on it, he will receive a reward.
15 If any man’s work is burned, he will suffer loss, but he himself will be saved, but as through fire.
16 Don’t you know that you are a temple of God, and that God’s Spirit lives in you?
17 If anyone destroys God’s temple, God will destroy him; for God’s temple is holy, which you are.
18 Let no one deceive himself. If anyone thinks that he is wise among you in this world, let him become a fool, that he may become wise.
Read all of 1 Corinthians 3 in the World English Bible.
Edition and source notes
Each translation is shown as its source prints it, in its own verse numbering; where an edition numbers this verse differently, its own reference is given. The World English Bible, King James Version and Berean Standard Bible link to their chapter pages. Edition notes.
Literal Standard Version (2020) © Covenant Press and the Covenant Christian Coalition, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0. Imported from the checksum-pinned eBible.org USFX source; the extracted verse text is an adaptation shared under the same license. Free Bible Version (2018) © Dr. Jonathan Gallagher, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0. Imported from the checksum-pinned eBible.org USFX source; the extracted verse text is an adaptation shared under the same license.
The original words and their English come from the Berean Standard Bible translation tables (public domain); lemmas and short definitions from STEPBible (CC BY 4.0), with Greek definitions based on Abbott-Smith.
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