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Ooops! 1 Cor. 3:16 refers to the local assembly of believers, figuratively the Body of Christ. "Know ye^{2nd person plural} not that ye are^{2nd person plural} God's temple^{(anarthrous, noun, predicate nominative case, singular, masculine gender)}, and The God's Holy Spirit dwelleth in you^{(personal pronoun, dative case, 2nd person plural)}?"

God is omnipresent. Not only does the Spirit indwell the individual (who is only a building block, a member of the local Body of Christ, the ekklesia, the church), but He dwells without the individual living stone, cementing the stones/members together in a functional whole spiritual building. No individual is alone a/the temple of the Holy Ghost. Therefore,

"If any man defile the temple^{(articulated)} of The God, him shall The God destroy; . . . "

Remember Achan (Josh. 7) who in disobeying a very specific command of God, defiled not only himself, but the whole congregation of the nation Israel, forfeiting not only his own life, but those of his family who doubtlessly knew of his sin, but failed to discipline him or report it to the whole congregation to judge and deal with. Continuing,

". . . for the temple^{(articulated)} of The God is holy, which ~~temple~~ ye yourselves are^{(both verb form and pronoun are 2nd person plural)}."

It is not grammatically possible here that any single individual is ny him/herself a temple of the Holy Spirit. This is often preached so, but is not exegetically correct.

The same principle produces the same result when applied to 1 Cor. 6:19,20. The local Temple addressed here, the you(all)" is the whole body of believers that consist the Corinthian church. The "we" in the text is those persons from whom the letter is sent.