1 Corinthians 6:19

“What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost, etc.] What is said in (<460316>1 Corinthians 3:16,17) of the saints in general, is here said of their bodies in particular. The Holy Spirit, in regeneration and sanctification, when he begins the good work of grace on a man, takes possession of his whole person, soul and body, and dwells therein as in his temple. So the Jews f86 call the body of a righteous man ˆkçm, the “habitation” of the Holy Spirit. Now it is most abominably scandalous and shameful that that body, which is the dwelling place of the Holy Spirit, which is sacred to him as a temple, should be defiled by the sin of fornication: it is added, which is in you,…”

“What? know ye not? &c.--Proof that "he that fornicates sinneth against his own body" (Co1 6:18). your body--not "bodies." As in Co1 3:17, he represented the whole company of believers (souls and bodies), that is, the Church, as "the temple of God," the Spirit; so here, the body of each individual of the Church is viewed as the ideal "temple of the Holy Ghost." So Joh 17:23, which proves that not only the Church, but also each member of it, is "the temple of the Holy Ghost." Still though many the several members form one temple, the whole collectively being that which each is in miniature individually. Just as the Jews had one temple only, so in the fullest sense all Christian churches and…”

“What! know ye not ... - This is the fifth argument against this sin. The Holy Spirit dwells in us; our bodies are his temples; and they should not be defiled and polluted by sin; see the note at 1 Corinthians 3:16-17. As this Spirit is in us, and as it is given us by God, we ought not to dishonor the gift and the giver by pollution and vice. And ye are not your own - This is the sixth argument which Paul uses. We are purchased; we belong to God; we are his by redemption; by a precious price paid; and we are bound, therefore, to devote ourselves, body, soul, and spirit, as he directs, to the glory of his name, not to the gratification of the flesh; see the note at Romans 14:7-8. return to…”

“And even your body is not, strictly speaking, your own even this is the temple of the Holy Ghost - Dedicated to him, and inhabited by him. What the apostle calls elsewhere "the temple of God," Co1 3:16-17, and "the temple of the living God," Co2 6:16, he here styles the temple of the Holy Ghost; plainly showing that the Holy Ghost is the living God. 1 Corinthians 6:20”

“What: Co1 6:15, Co1 6:16 your body: Co1 3:16; Co2 6:16; Eph 2:21, Eph 2:22; Pe1 2:5 and ye: Kg1 20:4; Ch1 29:14; Psa 12:4, Psa 100:3; Rom 14:7-9; Co2 5:15; Tit 2:14 1 Corinthians 6:20”