1 Corinthians 3:17

Divisiveness And Immaturity

¹⁶ Don’t you yourselves know that you are God’s sanctuary and that the Spirit of God lives in you? ¹⁷ If anyone destroys God’s sanctuary, God will destroy him; for God’s sanctuary is holy, and that is what you are. ¹⁸ No one should deceive himself. If anyone among you thinks he is wise in this age, he must become foolish so that he can become wise.

Defile the Temple

House of God

Set Apart

Temple of God

O God

Genesis 28:17

He was afraid and said, “What an awesome place this is! This is none other than the house of God. This is the gate of heaven.”

Exodus 3:5

“Do not come closer,” He said. “Remove the sandals from your feet, for the place where you are standing is holy ground.”

Leviticus 15:31

“You must keep the Israelites from their uncleanness, so that they do not die by defiling My tabernacle that is among them.

Leviticus 20:3

I will turn against that man and cut him off from his people, because he gave his offspring to Molech, defiling My sanctuary and profaning My holy name.

Numbers 19:20

But a person who is unclean and does not purify himself, that person will be cut off from the assembly because he has defiled the sanctuary of the Lord. The water for impurity has not been sprinkled on him; he is unclean.

1 Chronicles 29:3

Moreover, because of my delight in the house of my God, I now give my personal treasures of gold and silver for the house of my God over and above all that I’ve provided for the holy house:

Psalm 74:3

Make Your way to the everlasting ruins,
to all that the enemy has destroyed in the sanctuary.

Psalm 79:1

A psalm of Asaph.God, the nations have invaded Your inheritance,
desecrated Your holy temple,
and turned Jerusalem into ruins.

Psalm 93:5

Lord, Your testimonies are completely reliable;
holiness is the beauty of Your house
for all the days to come.

Psalm 99:9

Exalt the Lord our God;
bow in worship at His holy mountain,
for the Lord our God is holy.

Isaiah 64:11

Our holy and beautiful temple,
where our fathers praised You,
has been burned with fire,
and all that was dear to us lies in ruins.

Ezekiel 5:11

“Therefore, as I live”—this is the declaration of the Lord God—“I am going to cut you off and show you no pity, because you have defiled My sanctuary with all your detestable practices and abominations. Yes, I will not spare you.

Ezekiel 7:22

I will turn My face from the wicked
as they profane My treasured place.
Violent men will enter it and profane it.

Ezekiel 23:38-39

They also did this to Me: they defiled My sanctuary on that same day and profaned My Sabbaths.

Ezekiel 43:12

This is the law of the temple: all its surrounding territory on top of the mountain will be especially holy. Yes, this is the law of the temple.

Zephaniah 3:4

Her prophets are reckless—
treacherous men.
Her priests profane the sanctuary;
they do violence to instruction.

1 Corinthians 6:18-20

Run from sexual immorality! “Every sin a person can commit is outside the body.” On the contrary, the person who is sexually immoral sins against his own body.