Ye Are the Temple of God - Scriptures and Quotes

Lesson 33: “Ye Are the Temple of God” – Scriptures and Quotes

Reading 1 – 1 Corinthians 1:10-13

Reading 2 – John 17:20-21

1 Corinthians 3:1-3

Reading 4 – 1 Corinthians 3:5-11

Reading 5 – 1 Corinthians 1:18-21

1 Corinthians 1:25-31

Reading 6 – 1 Corinthians 2:1-5,9

Reading 7 - President Joseph Fielding Smith taught: “The Spirit of God speaking to the spirit of man has power to impart truth with greater effect and understanding than the truth can be imparted by personal contact even with heavenly beings. Through the Holy Ghost the truth is woven into the very fibre and sinews of the body so that it cannot be forgotten” (Doctrines of Salvation, comp. Bruce R. McConkie, 3 vols. [1954–56], 1:47–48).

Elder Bruce R. McConkie wrote: "Pure religion is a thing of the Spirit and not of the intellect alone, and its truths must be carried into the hearts of hearers by the power of the Spirit, otherwise the human soul is not changed...and the seeker after salvation does not become alive in Christ." (DNTC, 2:318)

Reading 8 – President Spencer W. Kimball taught: “There is opportunity to get both [secular and spiritual learning] simultaneously. … If we spend our mortal days in accumulating secular knowledge to the exclusion of the spiritual then we are in a dead-end street, for this is the time for man to prepare to meet God; this is the time for faith to be built, for baptism to be effected, for the Holy Ghost to be received, for the ordinances to be performed. Contemporary with this program can come the secular knowledge, for even in the spirit world after death our spirits can go on learning” (The Teachings of Spencer W. Kimball, ed. Edward L. Kimball [1982], 390).

Reading 9 – 1 Corinthians 5:1-8,13

1 Corinthians 3:16-17

Reading 10 – Elder Richard G. Scott said: “Satan tempts one to believe that there are allowable levels of physical contact between consenting individuals who seek the powerful stimulation of emotions they produce, and if kept within bounds, no harm will result. As a witness of Jesus Christ, I testify that is absolutely false. … Decide what you will and will not do. When temptation comes, do not change your standards” (in Conference Report, Oct. 1994, 51; or Ensign, Nov. 1994, 38).