John 2:21

Holy Bible: Easy-to-Read Version

But the temple Jesus meant was his own body.

Cross References

1 Corinthians 6:19

You should know that your body is a temple for the Holy Spirit that you received from God and that lives in you. You don’t own yourselves.

1 Corinthians 3:16

You should know that you yourselves are God’s temple. God’s Spirit lives in you.

Hebrews 8:2

Our high priest serves in the Most Holy Place. He serves in the true place of worship that was made by God, not by anyone here on earth.

Colossians 2:9

I say this because all of God lives in Christ fully, even in his life on earth.

Colossians 1:19

God was pleased for all of himself to live in the Son.

2 Corinthians 6:16

God’s temple cannot have anything to do with idols, and we are the temple of the living God. As God said, “I will live with them and walk with them; I will be their God, and they will be my people.” Leviticus 26:11-12

John 1:14

The Word became a man and lived among us. We saw his divine greatness—the greatness that belongs to the only Son of the Father. The Word was full of grace and truth.

John 2:22

After he was raised from death, his followers remembered that he had said this. So they believed the Scriptures, and they believed the words Jesus said.