The worshippers, certainly. God has no need for a house himself, rather, the Temple is a house of praise, a monument for believers, a physical reminder of a Spiritual God.

Or do you not know that he who is joined to a prostitute becomes one body with her? For, as it is written, “The two will become one flesh.” But he who is joined to the Lord becomes one spirit with him. Flee from sexual immorality. Every other sin a person commits is outside the body, but the sexually immoral person sins against his own body. Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit within you, whom you have from God? You are not your own, for you were bought with a price. So glorify God in your body.

1 Corinthians 6:16-20

So why then did God purchase, at a great price, the Temple that is the body of each Christian? It is indeed for the same reason. He made our body and our soul holy when he bought us with Jesus’ blood. He did this for us, the believers. If the body is to be considered a Spiritually polluted thing or, worse, a source of Spiritual pollution, it might be tempting to conclude that sins committed in the body somehow belong to the body alone, thereby making them “natural” or simply a consequence of living.

But the presence of the Holy Spirit changes things! Because we have the Holy Spirit within, we do not behave as mere fleshly beings, but as ones with a proximity to divinity. The body, now a Temple, serves a higher purpose than mere material comfort and personal satisfaction. We have become a monument to God, a living house of praise, a walking, talking reminder of an invisible God.

Ethan Kirl