1 Corinthians 3:16-19

Divisions in the Church

¹⁶ _c Do you not know that you ₁ are God's temple and that God's Spirit dwells in you? ¹⁷ If anyone destroys God's temple, God will destroy him. For _d God's temple is holy, and you are that temple.

¹⁸ _e Let no one deceive himself. _f If anyone among you thinks that he is wise in this age, let him become a fool that he may become wise. ¹⁹ For _g the wisdom of this world is folly with God. For it is written, _h "He catches the wise in their craftiness,"

1. Cross References
   1 Corinthians 6:19
   Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit within you, whom you have from God? You are not your own.
   2 Corinthians 6:16
   What agreement has the temple of God with idols? For we are the temple of the living God; as God said, "I will make my dwelling among them and walk among them, and I will be their God, and they shall be my people.
   Ephesians 2:21
   In whom the whole structure, being joined together, grows into a holy temple in the Lord.
   
2. Cross References
   2 Corinthians 7:1
   Since we have these promises, beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from every defilement of body and spirit, bringing holiness to completion in the fear of God.
   
3. Cross References
   Isaiah 5:21
   Woe to those who are wise in their own eyes, and shrewd in their own sight!
   Galatians 6:3
   For if anyone thinks he is something, when he is nothing, he deceives himself.
   
4. Cross References
   1 Corinthians 8:2
   If anyone imagines that he knows something, he does not yet know as he ought to know.
   Jeremiah 8:8 - 9
   How can you say, 'We are wise, and the law of the Lord is with us'? But behold, the lying pen of the scribes has made it into a lie.
   
5. Cross References
   1 Corinthians 1:20
   Where is the one who is wise? Where is the scribe? Where is the debater of this age? Has not God made foolish the wisdom of the world?
   
6. Cross References
   Job 5:13
   He catches the wise in their own craftiness, and the schemes of the wily are brought to a quick end.
   
7. Cross References
   Job 5:13
   He catches the wise in their own craftiness, and the schemes of the wily are brought to a quick end.