1 Corinthians 3:16-23
Amplified Bible, Classic Edition
16 Do you not discern and understand that you [the whole church at Corinth] are God’s temple (His sanctuary), and that God’s Spirit has His permanent dwelling in you [to be at home in you, [a]collectively as a church and also individually]?
17 If anyone [b]does hurt to God’s temple or corrupts it [[c]with false doctrines] or destroys it, God will [d]do hurt to him and bring him to the corruption of death and destroy him. For the temple of God is holy (sacred to Him) and that [temple] you [[e]the believing church and its individual believers] are.
18 Let no person deceive himself. If anyone among you supposes that he is wise in this age, let him become a fool [let him discard his worldly discernment and recognize himself as dull, stupid, and foolish, without true learning and scholarship], that he may become [really] wise.(A)
19 For this world’s wisdom is foolishness (absurdity and stupidity) with God, for it is written, He lays hold of the wise in their [own] craftiness;(B)
20 And again, The Lord knows the thoughts and reasonings of the [humanly] wise and recognizes how futile they are.(C)
21 So let no one exult proudly concerning men [boasting of having this or that man as a leader], for all things are yours,
22 Whether Paul or Apollos or Cephas (Peter), or the universe or life or death, or the immediate and [f]threatening present or the [subsequent and uncertain] future—all are yours,
23 And you are Christ’s, and Christ is God’s.
Read full chapterFootnotes
- 1 Corinthians 3:16 Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Holy Bible.
- 1 Corinthians 3:17 The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges.
- 1 Corinthians 3:17 Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Holy Bible.
- 1 Corinthians 3:17 The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges.
- 1 Corinthians 3:17 Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Holy Bible.
- 1 Corinthians 3:22 Marvin Vincent, Word Studies.
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