1 Corinthians 6:19
New American Bible (Revised Edition)
19 Do you not know that your body is a temple[a] of the holy Spirit within you, whom you have from God, and that you are not your own?(A)
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- 6:19–20 Paul’s vision becomes trinitarian. A temple: sacred by reason of God’s gift, his indwelling Spirit. Not your own: but “for the Lord,” who acquires ownership by the act of redemption. Glorify God in your body: the argument concludes with a positive imperative to supplement the negative “avoid immorality” of 1 Cor 6:18. Far from being a terrain that is morally indifferent, the area of sexuality is one in which our relationship with God (and his Christ and his Spirit) is very intimately expressed: he is either highly glorified or deeply offended.
2 Corinthians 6:16
New American Bible (Revised Edition)
16 (A)What agreement has the temple of God with idols? For we are the temple of the living God; as God said:
“I will live with them and move among them,[a]
and I will be their God
and they shall be my people.
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- 6:16c–18 This is a chain of scriptural citations carefully woven together. God’s covenant relation to his people and his presence among them (2 Cor 6:16) is seen as conditioned on cultic separation from the profane and cultically impure (2 Cor 6:17); that relation is translated into the personal language of the parent-child relationship, an extension to the community of the language of 2 Sm 7:14 (2 Cor 6:18). Some remarkable parallels to this chain are found in the final chapters of Revelation. God’s presence among his people (Rev 21:22) is expressed there, too, by applying 2 Sm 7:14 to the community (Rev 21:7). There is a call to separation (Rev 18:4) and exclusion of the unclean from the community and its liturgy (Rev 21:27). The title “Lord Almighty” (Pantokratōr) occurs in the New Testament only here in 2 Cor 6:18 and nine times in Revelation.
Ephesians 2:20-22
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20 built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets,(A) with Christ Jesus himself as the capstone.[a] 21 Through him the whole structure is held together and grows into a temple sacred in the Lord;(B) 22 in him you also are being built together into a dwelling place of God in the Spirit.(C)
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- 2:20 Capstone: the Greek can also mean cornerstone or keystone.
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