1 Corinthians 3:9
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9 For we are fellow workmen (joint promoters, laborers together) with and for God; you are God’s [a]garden and vineyard and field under cultivation, [you are] God’s building.(A)
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- 1 Corinthians 3:9 Johann Bengel, Gnomon Novi Testamenti.
1 Corinthians 3:16-17
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16 Do you not discern and understand that you [the whole church at Corinth] are God’s temple (His sanctuary), and that God’s Spirit has His permanent dwelling in you [to be at home in you, [a]collectively as a church and also individually]?
17 If anyone [b]does hurt to God’s temple or corrupts it [[c]with false doctrines] or destroys it, God will [d]do hurt to him and bring him to the corruption of death and destroy him. For the temple of God is holy (sacred to Him) and that [temple] you [[e]the believing church and its individual believers] are.
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- 1 Corinthians 3:16 Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Holy Bible.
- 1 Corinthians 3:17 The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges.
- 1 Corinthians 3:17 Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Holy Bible.
- 1 Corinthians 3:17 The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges.
- 1 Corinthians 3:17 Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Holy Bible.
1 Corinthians 6:19
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19 Do you not know that your body is the temple (the very sanctuary) of the Holy Spirit Who lives within you, Whom you have received [as a Gift] from God? You are not your own,
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2 Corinthians 4:7
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7 However, we possess this precious treasure [the divine Light of the Gospel] in [frail, human] vessels of earth, that the grandeur and exceeding greatness of the power may be shown to be from God and not from ourselves.
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2 Corinthians 6:16
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16 What agreement [can there be between] a temple of God and idols? For we are the temple of the living God; even as God said, I will dwell in and with and among them and will walk in and with and among them, and I will be their God, and they shall be My people.(A)
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Revelation 21:3
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3 Then I heard a mighty voice from the throne and I perceived its distinct words, saying, See! The abode of God is with men, and He will live (encamp, tent) among them; and they shall be His people, and God shall personally be with them and be their God.(A)
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Luke 11:13
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13 If you then, evil as you are, know how to give good gifts [gifts [a]that are to their advantage] to your children, how much more will your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to those who ask and [b]continue to ask Him!
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- Luke 11:13 Hermann Cremer, Biblico-Theological Lexicon.
- Luke 11:13 Charles B. Williams, The New Testament: A Translation: The idea of continuing or repeated action is often carried by the present imperative and present participles in Greek.
Isaiah 60:1-3
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60 Arise [from the depression and prostration in which circumstances have kept you—rise to a new life]! Shine (be radiant with the glory of the Lord), for your light has come, and the glory of the Lord has risen upon you!(A)
2 For behold, darkness shall cover the earth, and dense darkness [all] peoples, but the Lord shall arise upon you [O Jerusalem], and His glory shall be seen on you.(B)
3 And nations shall come to your light, and kings to the brightness of your rising.(C)
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