Text -- 1 Corinthians 3:16-23 (NET)

3:16 Do you not know that you are God’s temple and that God’s Spirit lives in you? 3:17 If someone destroys God’s temple, God will destroy him. For God’s temple is holy, which is what you are. 3:18 Guard against self-deception, each of you. If someone among you thinks he is wise in this age, let him become foolish so that he can become wise. 3:19 For the wisdom of this age is foolishness with God. As it is written, “He catches the wise in their craftiness.” 3:20 And again, “The Lord knows that the thoughts of the wise are futile.” 3:21 So then, no more boasting about mere mortals! For everything belongs to you, 3:22 whether Paul or Apollos or Cephas or the world or life or death or the present or the future. Everything belongs to you, 3:23 and you belong to Christ, and Christ belongs to God.

Commentary -- Verse Notes / Footnotes

NET Notes: 1Co 3:16

¹ sn You are God’s temple refers here to the church, since the pronoun you is plural in the Greek text. (In 6:19 the same imagery is used in a different context to refer to the individual believer.)

NET Notes: 1Co 3:18

¹ tn Grk “let no one deceive himself.”

NET Notes: 1Co 3:19

¹ sn A quotation from Job 5:13.

NET Notes: 1Co 3:20

¹ sn A quotation from Ps 94:11.

NET Notes: 1Co 3:21

¹ tn Grk “so then, let no one boast in men.”