Ephesians 2:21
19 Therefore you are no longer strangers and foreigners, but fellow citizens with the saints and members of God’s household,
20 built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, with Christ Jesus Himself as the cornerstone.
In Him the whole building is fitted together and grows into a holy temple in the Lord.
22 And in Him you too are being built together into a dwelling place for God in His Spirit.
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
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- BSB
- In Him the whole building is fitted together and grows into a holy temple in the Lord.
- KJV
- In whom all the building fitly framed together groweth unto an holy temple in the Lord:
- WEB
- in whom the whole building, fitted together, grows into a holy temple in the Lord;
- ASV
- in whom each several building, fitly framed together, groweth into a holy temple in the Lord;
- DARBY
- in whom all [the] building fitted together increases to a holy temple in the Lord;
- BLB
- in whom all the building, being fitted together, grows into a holy temple in the Lord,
- ÅB
- i hvem hver bygning føyes sammen og vokser til et hellig tempel i Herren,
- OTB
- i Ham vokser hele bygningen, sammenføyd, til et hellig tempel i Herren.
- B1930
- i hvem hver bygning føies sammen og vokser til et hellig tempel i Herren,
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
1 Corinthians 3:16–17
Do you not know that you yourselves are God’s temple, and that God’s Spirit dwells in you?
Read in context1 Corinthians 3:9
For we are God’s fellow workers; you are God’s field, God’s building.
Read in context2 Corinthians 6:16
What 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.”
Read in contextEphesians 4:13–16
until we all reach unity in the faith and in the knowledge of the Son of God, as we mature to the full measure of the stature of Christ.
Read in context1 Kings 6:7
The temple was constructed using finished stones cut at the quarry, so that no hammer or chisel or any other iron tool was heard in the temple while it was being built.
Read in contextHebrews 3:3–4
For Jesus has been counted worthy of greater glory than Moses, just as the builder of a house has greater honor than the house itself.
Read in contextExodus 26:1–37
“You are to construct the tabernacle itself with ten curtains of finely spun linen, each with blue, purple, and scarlet yarn, and cherubim skillfully worked into them.
Read in contextEzekiel 42:12
And corresponding to the doors of the chambers that were facing south, there was a door in front of the walkway that was parallel to the wall extending eastward.
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