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

⁷ rooted and built up in him and established in the faith, just as you were taught, abounding in thanksgiving.^(A)

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.

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.^(A)

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,^[a] who loved me and gave himself for me.^(A)

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.^(A)

²¹ in him the whole structure is joined together and grows into a holy temple in the Lord,^{(A) 22} in whom you also are built together spiritually^[a] into a dwelling place for God.

¹⁶ What agreement has the temple of God with idols? For we^[a] are the temple of the living God, as God said,

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.^(A)