Through him you Gentiles are also being made part of this dwelling where God lives by 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.
- BSB And in Him you too are being built together into a dwelling place for God in His 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.
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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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- 1 Pet 2:4–5coming to him, a living stone, rejected indeed by men, but chosen by God, precious.
- 1 Cor 3:16Don’t you know that you are a temple of God, and that God’s Spirit lives in you?
- John 17:21–23that they may all be one; even as you, Father, are in me, and I in you, that they also may be one in us; that the world may believe that you sent me.
- 1 Jn 4:16We know and have believed the love which God has for us. God is love, and he who remains in love remains in God, and God remains in him.
- John 14:17–23the Spirit of truth, whom the world can’t receive; for it doesn’t see him, neither knows him. You know him, for he lives with you, and will be in you.
- 1 Jn 4:13By this we know that we remain in him and he in us, because he has given us of his Spirit.
- Rom 8:9–11But you are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if it is so that the Spirit of God dwells in you. But if any man doesn’t have the Spirit of Christ, he is not his.
- 1 Cor 6:19Or don’t you know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have from God? You are not your own,
- 2 Cor 6:16What agreement has a temple of God with idols? For you are a temple of the living God. Even as God said, “I will dwell in them, and walk in them; and I will be their God, and they will be my people.”
- 1 Jn 3:24He who keeps his commandments remains in him, and he in him. By this we know that he remains in us, by the Spirit which he gave us.
- Eph 3:17that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith; to the end that you, being rooted and grounded in love,
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