SEV Biblia, Chapter 6:19
¿O ignoráis que vuestro cuerpo es templo del Espíritu Santo, (el cual está) en vosotros, el cual tenéis de Dios, y que no sois vuestros?
Clarke's Bible Commentary - 1 Corinthians 6:19
Verse 19. Your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost] What an astonishing saying is this! As truly as the living God dwelt in the Mosaic tabernacle, and in the temple of Solomon, so truly does the Holy Ghost dwell in the souls of genuine Christians; and as the temple and all its utensils were holy, separated from all common and profane uses, and dedicated alone to the service of God, so the bodies of genuine Christians are holy, and all their members should be employed in the service of God alone. And ye are not your own?] Ye have no right over yourselves, to dispose either of your body, or any of its members, as you may think proper or lawful; you are bound to God, and to him you are accountable.
John Gill's Bible Commentary
Ver. 19. What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost , etc.] What is said in ( 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 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, which ye have of God ; meaning the Holy Spirit which was in them, as in his temple; which dwelt in their hearts, and influenced their bodies, lives, and conversations; and which they received of God as a wonderful instance of his grace and love to them; that he should be bestowed upon them, to regenerate, renew, and sanctify them, to implant every grace, to make them a fit habitation for God, and meet for the inheritance of the saints in light: and ye are not your own : their own masters, at their own dispose, to live to their own lusts, or the lusts of men; men have not power over their bodies to abuse them at pleasure by fornication, or such like uncleanness, neither single nor married persons; (see 1 Corinthians 7:4) and of all men, not the saints, who are neither their own nor other men’s, nor Satan’s, but God’s; not only by creation, but by choice and covenant; and Christ’s by gift, by purchase, and powerful grace, and in a conjugal relation to him; wherefore fornication ill becomes them.
Matthew Henry Commentary
Verses 12-20 - Some among the Corinthians seem to have been ready to say, All thing are lawful for me. This dangerous conceit St. Paul opposes. There is liberty wherewith Christ has made us free, in which we must stand fast But surely a Christian would never put himself into the power of an bodily appetite. The body is for the Lord; is to be an instrument of righteousness to holiness, therefore is never to be made an instrumen of sin. It is an honour to the body, that Jesus Christ was raised from the dead; and it will be an honour to our bodies, that they will be raised. The hope of a resurrection to glory, should keep Christian from dishonouring their bodies by fleshly lusts. And if the soul be united to Christ by faith, the whole man is become a member of his spiritual body. Other vices may be conquered in fight; that her cautioned against, only by flight. And vast multitudes are cut off by this vice in its various forms and consequences. Its effects fall no only directly upon the body, but often upon the mind. Our bodies have been redeemed from deserved condemnation and hopeless slavery by the atoning sacrifice of Christ. We are to be clean, as vessels fitted for our Master's use. Being united to Christ as one spirit, and bought with a price of unspeakable value, the believer should consider himself a wholly the Lord's, by the strongest ties. May we make it our business to the latest day and hour of our lives, to glorify God with ou bodies, and with our spirits which are his __________________________________________________________________
Greek Textus Receptus
η 2228 PRT ουκ 3756 PRT-N οιδατε 1492 5758 V-RAI-2P οτι 3754 CONJ το 3588 T-NSN σωμα 4983 N-NSN υμων 5216 P-2GP ναος 3485 N-NSM του 3588 T-GSN εν 1722 PREP υμιν 5213 P-2DP αγιου 40 A-GSN πνευματος 4151 N-GSN εστιν 2076 5748 V-PXI-3S ου 3739 R-GSN εχετε 2192 5719 V-PAI-2P απο 575 PREP θεου 2316 N-GSM και 2532 CONJ ουκ 3756 PRT-N εστε 2075 5748 V-PXI-2P εαυτων 1438 F-3GPM
Vincent's NT Word Studies
19. Temple (naov). Better, as Rev., in margin, sanctuary. It is not only a temple, but the very shrine. See on ch. iii. 16.Glorify. See on John vii. 39. Omit and in your spirit, which are God's.
Robertson's NT Word Studies
6:19 {Your body is a temple} (to swma humwn naos estin). A sanctuary as in #3:16 which see. Our spirits dwell in our bodies and the Holy Spirit dwells in our spirits. Some of the Gnostics split hairs between the sins of the body and fellowship with God in the spirit. Paul will have none of this subterfuge. One's body is the very shrine for the Holy Spirit. In Corinth was the temple to Aphrodite in which fornication was regarded as consecration instead of desecration. Prostitutes were there as priestesses of Aphrodite, to help men worship the goddess by fornication. {Ye are not your own} (ouk este heautwn). Predicate genitive. Ye do not belong to yourselves, even if you could commit fornication without personal contamination or self-violation. Christianity makes unchastity dishonor in both sexes. There is no double standard of morality. Paul's plea here is primarily to men to be clean as members of Christ's body.
