And in Him you too are being built together into a dwelling place for God in His Spirit.
Parallel translations
- WEB in whom you also are built together for a habitation of God in the Spirit.
- KJV In whom ye also are builded together for an habitation of God through the Spirit.
- NKJV in whom you also are being built together for a dwelling place of God in the Spirit.
- NASB in whom you also are being built together into a dwelling of God in the Spirit.
- NLT Through him you Gentiles are also being made part of this dwelling where God lives by his Spirit.
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Quick answer
Believers are being built together into a dwelling place for God by the Spirit. It declares that the church corporately is God's temple indwelt by his Spirit.
Overview
Paul completes the temple image addressed to his readers: 'in whom you also are built together for a habitation of God in the Spirit.' God no longer dwells in a building of stone but in his people, joined together in Christ. This corporate indwelling of the Spirit is the climax of the chapter's vision of one reconciled people of God.
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Cross-references · 11
- 1 Pet 2:4–5As you come to Him, the living stone, rejected by men but chosen and precious in God’s sight,
- 1 Cor 3:16Do you not know that you yourselves are God’s temple, and that God’s Spirit dwells in you?
- John 17:21–23that all of them may be one, as You, Father, are in Me, and I am in You. May they also be in Us, so that the world may believe that You sent Me.
- 1 Jn 4:16And we have come to know and believe the love that God has for us. God is love; whoever abides in love abides in God, and God in him.
- John 14:17–23the Spirit of truth. The world cannot receive Him, because it neither sees Him nor knows Him. But you do know Him, for He abides with you and will be in you.
- 1 Jn 4:13By this we know that we remain in Him, and He in us: He has given us of His Spirit.
- Rom 8:9–11You, however, are controlled not by the flesh, but by the Spirit, if the Spirit of God lives in you. And if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, he does not belong to Christ.
- 1 Cor 6:19Do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have received from God? You are not your own;
- 2 Cor 6:16What agreement can exist between the temple of God and idols? For we are the temple of the living God. As God has said: “I will dwell with them and walk among them, and I will be their God, and they will be My people.”
- 1 Jn 3:24Whoever keeps His commandments remains in God, and God in him. And by this we know that He remains in us: by the Spirit He has given us.
- Eph 3:17so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith. Then you, being rooted and grounded in love,
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