1 Corinthians 3:16-17
16 Do you not know that you are the temple of God and that the Spirit of God dwells in you? 17 If anyone defiles the temple of God, God will destroy him. For the temple of God is holy, which temple you are.
16 Do you not know that you are the temple of God and that the Spirit of God dwells in you? 17 If anyone defiles the temple of God, God will destroy him. For the temple of God is holy, which temple you are.
We are called to be holy temples for the holy God to live in and receive worship. Our bodies are set apart for His use and glory, not our own pleasure and misuse. Here we see the gravity of the charge to not corrupt or destroy these vessels made for honor. If we continue in polluting these, He has the right and loving moral duty to destroy these before we continue to do more damage. As seen in 1 Corinthians 3:15, however, the destruction is not of our eternal souls, but the temporal bodies we are misusing. We are called out from sin’s destruction to holiness because He is holy and living in us.
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