Avoid immorality. Any other sin a man commits does not affect his body; but the man who is guilty of sexual immorality sins against his own body.

he bought you for a price. So use your bodies for God's glory.

The LORD told Moses to warn the people of Israel about their uncleanness, so that they would not defile the Tent of his presence, which was in the middle of the camp. If they did, they would be killed.

If any of you give one of your children to Molech and make my sacred Tent unclean and disgrace my holy name, I will turn against you and will no longer consider you my people.

Those who have become ritually unclean and do not purify themselves remain unclean, because the water for purification has not been thrown over them. They defile the LORD's Tent and will no longer be considered God's people.

Walk over these total ruins; our enemies have destroyed everything in the Temple.

O God, the heathen have invaded your land. They have desecrated your holy Temple and left Jerusalem in ruins.

"Therefore, as I am the living God---this is the word of the Sovereign LORD ---because you defiled my Temple with all the evil, disgusting things you did, I will cut you down without mercy.

I will not interfere when my treasured Temple is profaned, when robbers break into it and defile it.

And that is not all they did. They profaned my Temple and broke the Sabbath, which I had established.

The very day that they killed my children as sacrifices to idols, they came to my Temple and profaned it!

The prophets are irresponsible and treacherous; the priests defile what is sacred, and twist the law of God to their own advantage.

He was afraid and said, "What a terrifying place this is! It must be the house of God; it must be the gate that opens into heaven."

God said, "Do not come any closer. Take off your sandals, because you are standing on holy ground.

Over and above all this that I have provided, I have given silver and gold from my personal property because of my love for God's Temple.

Your laws are eternal, LORD, and your Temple is holy indeed, forever and ever.

Praise the LORD our God, and worship at his sacred hill! The LORD our God is holy.

and our Temple, the sacred and beautiful place where our ancestors praised you, has been destroyed by fire. All the places we loved are in ruins.

This is the law of the Temple: All the area surrounding it on the top of the mountain is sacred and holy."