SECOND READING "You are a sanctuary of God" Reading of the first letter of Saint Paul the Apostle to the Corinthians 3, 9c-11.16-17

SECOND READING 

"You are a sanctuary of God" 

Reading of the first letter of Saint Paul the Apostle to the Corinthians 3, 9c-11.16-17 

Brethren,

    you are a house that God is building.

    According to the grace that God has given me,

I, like a good architect,

have laid the foundation stone.

Another built on it.

But let everyone be careful

how they contribute to the construction.

    The foundation stone, no one can lay other

than the one that is there: Jesus Christ. 

    Don't you know that you are a sanctuary of God,

and that the Spirit of God dwells in you?

    If anybody destroys the sanctuary of God,

that man, God will destroy him,

for the sanctuary of God is holy,

and that sanctuary is you. 

    - Word of the Lord.