Ephesians 2:21 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

²¹ in him the whole structure is joined together and grows into a holy temple in the Lord,

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²¹ in whom all the building fitly framed together groweth unto an holy temple in the Lord:

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²¹ In Him the whole structure is joined (bound, welded) together harmoniously, and it continues to rise (grow, increase) into a holy temple in the Lord [a sanctuary dedicated, consecrated, and sacred to the presence of the Lord].

American Standard Version (1901)

²¹ in whom each several building, fitly framed together, groweth into a holy temple in the Lord;

Common English Bible

²¹ The whole building is joined together in him, and it grows up into a temple that is dedicated to the Lord.

Catholic Public Domain Version

²¹ In him, all that has been built is framed together, rising up into a holy temple in the Lord.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

²¹ In whom all the building, being framed together, groweth up into an holy temple in the Lord.

Ephesians 2:21 Cross References

1 Kings 6:7

The house was built with stone finished at the quarry so that neither hammer nor ax nor any tool of iron was heard in the temple while it was being built.

Psalm 93:5

Your decrees are very sure; holiness befits your house, O Lord, forevermore.

Ezekiel 42:12

So the entrances of the chambers to the south were entered through the entrance at the head of the corresponding passage, from the east, along the matching wall.

1 Corinthians 3:9

For we are God’s coworkers, working together; you are God’s field, God’s building.

2 Corinthians 6:16

What agreement has the temple of God with idols? For we are the temple of the living God, as God said, “I will live in them and walk among them, and I will be their God, and they shall be my people.

Colossians 2:19

and not holding fast to the head, from whom the whole body, nourished and held together by its ligaments and tendons, grows with a growth that is from God.

1 Timothy 3:15

if I am delayed, you may know how one ought to behave in the household of God, which is the church of the living God, the pillar and support of the truth.