"Don't you know that you yourselves are God's temple and that God's Spirit lives in you? If anyone destroys God's temple, God will destroy him; for God's temple is sacred, and you are that temple." 1 Corinthians 3:16-17 (NIV)
In this letter to the Corinthian Christians, the Apostle Paul told them that they themselves were the temple wherein God resided, not some physical building. Their bodies were the temple of God and should be treated as such.
That is a lesson that we should be aware of today. From the moment that we accepted Jesus Christ as our personal Lord and Savior, The Spirit of God took up residence inside of us. Our bodies are God's temple. With that in mind, we should be much more careful about how we treat and care for our bodies. We also should be careful how we treat God's other temples, other Christians.
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