Epistle of Ignatius to the Philadelphians

as the temples of God;[63]

Irenaeus Against Heresies Book V

Whence also he says, that this handiwork is "the temple of God," thus declaring: "Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you? If any man, therefore, will defile the temple of God, him will God destroy: for the temple of God is holy, which [temple] ye are."[31]

Fragments from the Lost Writings of Irenaeus

For thus, according to the holy apostle, the sin of fornication is perpetrated against the body, as involving also sin against the temple of God.[87]

Shepherd of Hermas Similitude Fifth

If you defile your flesh, you will also defile the Holy Spirit; and if you defile your flesh [and spirit], you will not live."[24]

Clement of Alexandria Stromata Book VII

What, then, shall we say of the Gnostic himself? "Know ye not," says the apostle, "that ye are the temple of God? "[135]

Tertullian A Treatise on the Soul

but in the apostle's it is "the temple of God,"[307]

Tertullian Against Marcion Book V "Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you? "[269]

Tertullian On the Resurrection of the Flesh

he also forbids our body to be profaned, as being "the temple of God; "[78]

Tertullian On the Apparel of Women Book II

(in) us of the Holy Spirit, we are all" the temple of God,"[3]

Tertullian To His Wife Book II

produce (our) marriage certificates before the Lord's tribunal, and allege that a marriage such as He Himself has forbidden has been duly contracted? What is prohibited (in the passage just referred to) is not "adultery; "It is not "fornication." The admission of a strange man (to your couch) less violates "the temple of God,"[26]

Tertullian On Modesty

of "temple of God,"[77]

Tertullian On Modesty

(He it is) who even in the first (Epistle) was the first of all (the apostles) to dedicate the temple of God: "Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that in you the Lord dwells? "[162]

Cyprian Epistle LIX

For inasmuch as the Apostle Paul says again, "Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you? "[5]

Cyprian Treatise XII Three Books of Testimonies Against the Jews

Also in the first Epistle of Paul to the Corinthians: "Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and the Spirit of God abideth in you? If any one violate the temple of God, him will God destroy."[553]

Pseudo-Gregory Thaumaturgus A Sectional Confession of Faith

And again he says: "Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you? If any man defile the temple of God, him shall God destroy."[86]

Origen Commentary on Matthew Book X

to them also it might be said, "The kingdom of heaven is within you; "and most of all because of the repentance from the letter unto the spirit; since "When one turn to the Lord, the veil over the letter is taken away.But the Lord is the Spirit."[74]

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