¹⁶ Don’t you know that you yourselves are God’s temple^(A) and that God’s Spirit dwells in your midst?^{(B) 17} If anyone destroys God’s temple, God will destroy that person; for God’s temple is sacred, and you together are that temple.

¹⁵ Do you not know that your bodies are members of Christ himself?^(A) Shall I then take the members of Christ and unite them with a prostitute? Never! ¹⁶ Do you not know that he who unites himself with a prostitute is one with her in body? For it is said, “The two will become one flesh.”^{[a](B) 17} But whoever is united with the Lord is one with him in spirit.^[b](C)

¹⁸ Flee from sexual immorality.^(D) All other sins a person commits are outside the body, but whoever sins sexually, sins against their own body.^{(E) 19} Do you not know that your bodies are temples^(F) of the Holy Spirit, who is in you, whom you have received from God? You are not your own;^{(G) 20} you were bought at a price.^(H) Therefore honor God with your bodies.^(I)