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I also agree, that the body is the temple of the Holy Spirit.

>>1 Corinthians 6:19-20 Do you not know that your bodies are temples of the Holy Spirit, who is in you, whom you have received from God? You are not your own; you were bought at a price. Therefore honor God with your bodies. <<

I'm afraid your text above is a mistranslation, whose interpretation using the English alone leads you to a serious error.

In fact, the words "body" and "temple" in the Koine are singular both in the Received Text and in the Critical Text, not plural. But "you" and "your" are second person plural, and involves the several individuals as combined into one singular body.

The mistranslation you have leads one to believe that this is a reproof for and to each individual as affecting only one's state of relationship with the Lord. That is very definitely not the gist of this verse (though erring in that direction is quite tempting), when examining the grammar.

No, this is a letter of correction addressed to the local immature church as a body at Corinth, whose members constitute one body, a local Body of The Christ; and thus the reprimand is toward the conduct of the member as it affects the whole church body.

Here is a more accurate translation:

"What? know ye not that your body is ~~the~~ temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own? For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God's" (1 Cor. 6:19-20 AV)(my strikeout of "the"; the construction is anarthrous).

(It is the local church which here is a temple of the Holy Ghost, not any particular individual. Better yet would be ". . .your body is The Holy Ghost's Temple in y'all . . .)

He/she that engages in sexual immorality (as in this context), or foolishness (Eph. 5:15-17), or drunkenness (Eph. 5:18a) brings not only God's chastening upon him/herself, but more importantly, upon the whole local assembly; as Achan's personal sin brought condemnation upon the whole congregation of Israel (Josh. 7:1-26). Defiling yourself with alcohol as a recreational man-made drug is fraught with retributional action from The God on both him/herself:

"Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you? If any man defile the temple of God, him shall God destroy; for the temple of God is holy, which temple ye are" (1 Cor. 3:16-17 AV).

(Note that your critical source text also deletes the last half of verse 20.)

I disagree with the attempt to make this thread an attempt to atomize the debate about which translation of the Bible is most correct. We could spend hours on that alone. While that is a fascinating and useful endeavor, and I just listened to a presentation by a noted author, pastor, and professor from Dallas Theological Seminary on the subject, it is rather arrogant of you to respond to other posters and chastise them for quoting chapter and verse, citing the exact text, and acting as self appointed enforcer of which translation is viable for this subject. I have seen these debates before. They inevitably devolve into someone insisting on the original Greek or Hebrew text as the only solution to the impasse, and by then everyone has forgotten what the original topic was.