¹⁹ Jesus answered, “Destroy this temple,^[a](A) and I will raise it up in three days.”^(B)

²⁰ Therefore the Jews said, “This temple took forty-six years to build,^[b] and will you raise it up in three days?” ^(C)

²¹ But he was speaking about the temple of his body.^(D)

⁷ For the lips of a priest should guard knowledge, and people should desire instruction from his mouth, because he is the messenger of the Lord of Armies.^(A)

⁵ you yourselves, as living stones, a spiritual house, are being built to be a holy priesthood^[a] to offer spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God^(A) through Jesus Christ.

⁹ But you are a chosen race,^[a][b](A) a royal priesthood,^[c](B) a holy nation,^[d](C) a people for his possession,^[e](D) so that you may proclaim the praises^[f][g](E) of the one who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light.^(F)

¹⁶ And what agreement does the temple of God have with idols?^(A) For we^[a] are the temple of the living God, as God said:

¹⁶ Don’t you yourselves know that you are God’s temple^(A) and that the Spirit of God lives in you?^(B)

¹⁷ If anyone destroys God’s temple, God will destroy him;^(A) for God’s temple is holy,^(B) and that is what you are.

²⁰ built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets,^(A) with Christ Jesus himself as the cornerstone. ²¹ In him the whole building, being put together,^(B) grows into a holy temple in the Lord.^{(C) 22} In him you are also being built together^(D) for God’s dwelling^(E) in the Spirit.