⁶ But Christ, as the Son, is in charge of God’s entire house. And we are God’s house, if we keep our courage and remain confident in our hope in Christ.^[a]

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:

¹⁶ Don’t you realize that all of you together are the temple of God and that the Spirit of God lives in^[a] you?

⁵ And you are living stones that God is building into his spiritual temple. What’s more, you are his holy priests.^[a] Through the mediation of Jesus Christ, you offer spiritual sacrifices that please God.

¹¹ Our great desire is that you will keep on loving others as long as life lasts, in order to make certain that what you hope for will come true.

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,

³⁵ So do not throw away this confident trust in the Lord. Remember the great reward it brings you!

² And now in these final days, he has spoken to us through his Son. God promised everything to the Son as an inheritance, and through the Son he created the universe.

²³ Let us hold tightly without wavering to the hope we affirm, for God can be trusted to keep his promise.

¹¹ So let us do our best to enter that rest. But if we disobey God, as the people of Israel did, we will fall.