Ephesians 3:17 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

¹⁷ and that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith, as you are being rooted and grounded in love.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁷ that Christ may dwell in your hearts by faith; that ye, being rooted and grounded in love,

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁷ May Christ through your faith [actually] dwell (settle down, abide, make His permanent home) in your hearts! May you be rooted deep in love and founded securely on love,

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁷ that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith; to the end that ye, being rooted and grounded in love,

Common English Bible

¹⁷ I ask that Christ will live in your hearts through faith. As a result of having strong roots in love,

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁷ so that Christ may live in your hearts through a faith rooted in, and founded on, charity.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹⁷ That Christ may dwell by faith in your hearts; that being rooted and founded in charity,

Ephesians 3:17 Cross References

Isaiah 57:15

For thus says the high and lofty one who inhabits eternity, whose name is Holy: I dwell in the high and holy place and also with those who are contrite and humble in spirit, to revive the spirit of the humble and to revive the heart of the contrite.

Matthew 13:6

But when the sun rose, they were scorched, and since they had no root, they withered away.

Luke 6:48

That one is like a man building a house who dug deeply and laid the foundation on rock; when a flood arose, the river burst against that house but could not shake it because it had been well built.

John 14:17

This is the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive because it neither sees him nor knows him. You know him because he abides with you, and he will be in you.

John 14:23

Jesus answered him, “Those who love me will keep my word, and my Father will love them, and we will come to them and make our home with them.

John 17:23

I in them and you in me, that they may become completely one, so that the world may know that you have sent me and have loved them even as you have loved me.

John 6:56

Those who eat my flesh and drink my blood abide in me and I in them.

Romans 5:5

and hope does not put us to shame, because God’s love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit that has been given to us.

1 Corinthians 3:6

I planted, Apollos watered, but God gave the growth.

1 Corinthians 8:1

Now concerning food sacrificed to idols: we know that “all of us possess knowledge.” Knowledge puffs up, but love builds up.

2 Corinthians 13:5

Examine yourselves to see whether you are living in the faith. Test yourselves. Do you not realize that Jesus Christ is in you?—unless, indeed, you fail to meet the test!

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.

Galatians 2:20

and it is no longer I who live, but it is Christ who lives in me. And the life I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.

Galatians 5:6

For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision counts for anything; the only thing that counts is faith working through love.

Colossians 1:23

provided that you continue securely established and steadfast in the faith, without shifting from the hope promised by the gospel that you heard, which has been proclaimed to every creature under heaven. I, Paul, became a minister of this gospel.

Colossians 1:27

To them God chose to make known how great among the gentiles are the riches of the glory of this mystery, which is Christ in you, the hope of glory.

Colossians 2:7

rooted and built up in him and established in the faith, just as you were taught, abounding in thanksgiving.

1 John 4:16

So we have known and believe the love that God has for us. God is love, and those who abide in love abide in God, and God abides in them.

1 John 4:4

Little children, you are from God and have conquered them, for the one who is in you is greater than the one who is in the world.

Revelation 3:20

Listen! I am standing at the door, knocking; if you hear my voice and open the door, I will come in and eat with you, and you with me.