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17 If anyone [a]does hurt to God’s temple or corrupts it [[b]with false doctrines] or destroys it, God will [c]do hurt to him and bring him to the corruption of death and destroy him. For the temple of God is holy (sacred to Him) and that [temple] you [[d]the believing church and its individual believers] are.

18 Let no person deceive himself. If anyone among you supposes that he is wise in this age, let him become a fool [let him discard his worldly discernment and recognize himself as dull, stupid, and foolish, without true learning and scholarship], that he may become [really] wise.(A)

19 For this world’s wisdom is foolishness (absurdity and stupidity) with God, for it is written, He lays hold of the wise in their [own] craftiness;(B)

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Corinthians 3:17 The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges.
  2. 1 Corinthians 3:17 Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Holy Bible.
  3. 1 Corinthians 3:17 The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges.
  4. 1 Corinthians 3:17 Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Holy Bible.

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