“Unholy Temples”
The temple is the house of God and no unclean thing is to enter it. Thus the temple becomes a natural metaphor for our bodies. To allow those thoughts or feelings that are unclean to enter the sanctuary of our spirit is, as it were, to defile the temple or the sacred place. (See 1 Corinthians 3:16-17: 6:19-20; see also Mosiah 3:19; 1 Corinthians 16:5.)
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