21In whom all the building fitly framed together groweth unto an holy temple in the Lord:
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Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you? …
For we are labourers together with God: ye are God's husbandry, ye are God's building.
And what agreement hath the temple of God with idols? for ye are the temple of the living God; as God hath said, I will dwell in them, and walk in them; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people.
Till we all come in the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, unto a perfect man, unto the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ: …
For this man was counted worthy of more glory than Moses, inasmuch as he who hath builded the house hath more honour than the house. …
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 14-22)We have now come to the last part of the chapter, which contains an account of the great and mighty privileges that converted Jews and Gentiles both receive from Christ. The apostle here shows that those who were in a state of enmity are reconciled. Between the Jews and the Gentiles there had been a great enmity; so there is between God and every unregenerate man. Now Jesus Christ is our peace, Ep…
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