11 translations · Greek

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,

World English Bible

1 Corinthians 6:19 in 11 translations

WEB World English Bible
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,
KJV King James Version
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?
BSB Berean Standard Bible
Do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have received from God? You are not your own;
ASV American Standard Version
Or know ye not that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit which is in you, which ye have from God? and ye are not your own;
LSV Literal Standard Version
Have you not known that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit in you, which you have from God? And you are not your own,
FBV Free Bible Version
Don't you know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit that is within you, that you received from God?
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
Have ye not known that your body is a sanctuary of the Holy Spirit in you, which ye have from God? and ye are not your own,
DBY Darby Translation
Do ye not know that your body is [the] temple of the Holy Spirit which [is] in you, which ye have of God; and ye are not your own?
WBT Webster’s Bible
What, know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit which is in you, which ye have from God, and ye are not your own?
WEBC World English Bible (Catholic)
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,
DRA Douay-Rheims 1899
Or know you not, that your members are the temple of the Holy Ghost, who is in you, whom you have from God; and you are not your own?

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
ἢ ē — G2228 ἤ or
οὐκ ouk — G3756 οὐ no
οἴδατε oidate Do you not know G1492 εἴδω to perceive: understand
ὅτι hoti that G3754 ὅτι that/since: that
τὸ to — G3588 ὁ the/this/who
σῶμα sōma body G4983 σῶμα body
ὑμῶν hymōn your G4771 σύ you
ναὸς naos [is] a temple G3485 ναός temple
τοῦ tou of the G3588 ὁ the/this/who
ἐν en in G1722 ἐν in/on/among
ὑμῖν hymin you G4771 σύ you
Ἁγίου Hagiou Holy G40 ἅγιος holy
Πνεύματός Pneumatos Spirit G4151 πνεῦμα spirit/breath: spirit
ἐστιν estin [who] is G1510 εἰμί to be
οὗ hou whom G3739 ὅς which
ἔχετε echete you have [received] G2192 ἔχω to have/be
ἀπὸ apo from G575 ἀπό away from
Θεοῦ Theou God G2316 θεός God
καὶ kai — G2532 καί and
οὐκ ouk not G3756 οὐ no
ἐστὲ este You are G1510 εἰμί to be
ἑαυτῶν heautōn your own G1438 ἑαυτοῦ themself
  • 1 Corinthians 3:16

    Don’t you know that you are a temple of God, and that God’s Spirit lives in you?

  • 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.”

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • Psalm 100:3

    Know that Yahweh, he is God. It is he who has made us, and we are his. We are his people, and the sheep of his pasture.

  • 1 Corinthians 6:15–16

    Don’t you know that your bodies are members of Christ? Shall I then take the members of Christ, and make them members of a prostitute? May it never be! Or don’t you know that he who is joined to a prostitute is one body? For, “The two”, he says, “will become one flesh.”

  • Titus 2:14

    who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify for himself a people for his own possession, zealous for good works.

  • Romans 14:7–9

    For none of us lives to himself, and none dies to himself. For if we live, we live to the Lord. Or if we die, we die to the Lord. If therefore we live or die, we are the Lord’s. For to this end Christ died, rose, and lived again, that he might be Lord of both the dead and the living.

  • John 2:21

    But he spoke of the temple of his body.

  • 2 Corinthians 5:15

    He died for all, that those who live should no longer live to themselves, but to him who for their sakes died and rose again.

Cross references from OpenBible.info, CC BY 4.0, most-voted first; text from the World English Bible.

In context

17 But he who is joined to the Lord is one spirit.

18 Flee sexual immorality! “Every sin that a man does is outside the body,” but he who commits sexual immorality sins against his own body.

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,

20 for you were bought with a price. Therefore glorify God in your body and in your spirit, which are God’s.

Read all of 1 Corinthians 6 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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