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Context: 1 Corinthians 6:19-20: "Do you not know that your body is a temple (ναὸς) of the Holy Spirit within you... You are not your own, for you were bought with a price. So glorify God in your body." 2 Corinthians 6:16: "We are the temple of the living God; as God said, 'I will make my dwelling (ἐνοικήσω) among them and walk among (ἐμπεριπατήσω) them.'"
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Christological Connection: These texts extend the temple theology from the corporate (1 Cor 3:16, the church as temple) to the individual (1 Cor 6:19, the believer's body as temple), and both applications are grounded in Christ's redemptive work. The declaration "you were bought with a price" (1 Corinthians 6:20) is the theological basis: Christ's blood is the purchase price that consecrates human bodies as sacred space for the Spirit's indwelling. Without the cross, the Spirit could not inhabit sinful humanity — the OT consistently demonstrated that unauthorized approach to holy presence brought death (Nadab and Abihu, Leviticus 10:1-2; Uzzah, 2 Samuel 6:7). Second Corinthians 6:16 quotes Leviticus 26:12 — "I will walk among them and be their God" — and applies it to the new covenant community. The verb ἐμπεριπατήσω ("I will walk among") recalls God's walking in Eden (Genesis 3:8), the Levitical covenant promise (Leviticus 26:12), and the tabernacle presence where God dwelt "in their midst" (Exodus 25:8). The escalation: God walked in Eden but Adam hid; God dwelt in the tabernacle but behind a veil; God filled the temple but priests could not stand; now, through Christ, God walks within believers by His Spirit — the most intimate divine-human union since Eden, and surpassing it. The ethical implication — "glorify God in your body" — flows directly from temple theology: if the body is a temple, it must be treated with the same holiness demanded of the OT sanctuary. Already, the Spirit indwells every believer, making the body sacred space. Not yet, the bodily resurrection will complete the temple's glorification when mortal bodies are raised imperishable (1 Corinthians 15:42-44).
Connection Method(s): Typology (Providential, Backward-Looking), Promise-Fulfillment — Individual believers' bodies as temples of the Holy Spirit fulfill the Leviticus 26 promise of God "walking among" His people, with Christ's redemptive purchase making sacred space of human bodies that the Spirit now inhabits. ANTI-DEFAULT CHECK: Typology and Promise-Fulfillment work together — the Leviticus 26:12 promise is explicitly cited and fulfilled in the new covenant community, and the temple-body concept is a backward-looking typological identification (human bodies fulfill what the stone temple prefigured).
Trajectory: Temple Ecclesiology
Trajectory Table: 158 - Temple Ecclesiology (Church as God's Dwelling)