Ephesians 2:21
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“In Him the whole building is fitted together and grows into a holy temple in the Lord.”
A short, plain-language explanation of Ephesians 2:21 goes here — the kind of answer a reader (or an AI assistant) can quote in one breath. Original meaning coming soon.
“In Him the whole building is fitted together and grows into a holy temple in the Lord.”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“In whom all the building fitly framed together groweth unto an holy temple in the Lord:”
King James Version · Public Domain“in whom each several building, fitly framed together, groweth into a holy temple in the Lord;”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“in whom all the building fitly framed together doth increase to an holy sanctuary in the Lord,”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo Ephesians 2:21 — 10 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Exodus 26:1“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.
- 1 Kings 6:7The 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.
- Psalms 93:5Your testimonies are fully confirmed; holiness adorns Your house, O LORD, for all the days to come.
- Ezekiel 40:1In the twenty-fifth year of our exile, at the beginning of the year, on the tenth day of the month—in the fourteenth year after Jerusalem had been struck down—on that very day the hand of the LORD was upon me, and He took me there.
- Ezekiel 42:12And 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.
- 1 Corinthians 3:9For we are God’s fellow workers; you are God’s field, God’s building.
- 1 Corinthians 3:16Do you not know that you yourselves are God’s temple, and that God’s Spirit dwells in you?
- 2 Corinthians 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.”
- Ephesians 4:13until 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.
- Hebrews 3:3For Jesus has been counted worthy of greater glory than Moses, just as the builder of a house has greater honor than the house itself.
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