John 2:21

New Living Translation

But when Jesus said “this temple,” he meant his own body.

Cross References

John 1:14

So the Word became human and made his home among us. He was full of unfailing love and faithfulness. And we have seen his glory, the glory of the Father’s one and only Son.

John 2:22

After he was raised from the dead, his disciples remembered he had said this, and they believed both the Scriptures and what Jesus had said.

1 Corinthians 3:16

Don’t you realize that all of you together are the temple of God and that the Spirit of God lives in you?

1 Corinthians 6:19

Don’t you realize that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit, who lives in you and was given to you by God? You do not belong to yourself,

2 Corinthians 6:16

And what union can there be between God’s temple and idols? For we are the temple of the living God. As God said: “I will live in them and walk among them. I will be their God, and they will be my people.

Colossians 1:19

For God in all his fullness was pleased to live in Christ,

Colossians 2:9

For in Christ lives all the fullness of God in a human body.

Hebrews 8:2

There he ministers in the heavenly Tabernacle, the true place of worship that was built by the Lord and not by human hands.