Ephesians 2:21
Good News Translation
He is the one who holds the whole building together and makes it grow into a sacred temple dedicated to the Lord.

New Revised Standard Version
In him the whole structure is joined together and grows into a holy temple in the Lord;

Contemporary English Version
Christ is the one who holds the building together and makes it grow into a holy temple for the Lord.

New American Bible
Through him the whole structure is held together and grows into a temple sacred in the Lord;

Douay-Rheims Bible
In whom all the building, being framed together, groweth up into an holy temple in the Lord.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

In whom all the building, being framed together, groweth up into an holy temple in the Lord.

all.

Ephesians 4:13-16 Until we all meet into the unity of faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, unto a perfect man, unto the measure of the age of the fulness of Christ: . . .

Ezekiel 40:1-42:20 In the five and twentieth year of our captivity, in the beginning of the year, the tenth day of the month, the fourteenth year after the city was destroyed: in the selfsame day the hand of the Lord was upon me, and he brought me thither. . . .

1 Corinthians 3:9 For we are God's coadjutors. You are God's husbandry: you are God's building.

Hebrews 3:3,4 For this man was counted worthy of greater glory than Moses, by so much as he that hath built the house hath greater honour than the house. . . .

fitly.

Exodus 26:1-37 And thou shalt make the tabernacle in this manner: Thou shalt make ten curtains of fine twisted linen, and violet and purple, and scarlet twice dyed, diversified with embroidery. . . .

1 Kings 6:7 And the house, when it was in building, was built of stones, hewed and made ready: so that there was neither hammer nor axe, nor any tool of iron heard in the house when it was in building.

an.

Psalm 93:5 Thy testimonies are become exceedingly credible: holiness becometh thy house, O Lord, unto length of days.

Ezekiel 42:12 According to the doors of the chambers that were towards the south: there was a door in the head of the way, which way was before the porch, separated towards the east as one entereth in.

1 Corinthians 3:17 But if any man violate the temple of God, him shall God destroy. For the temple of God is holy, which you are.

2 Corinthians 6:16 And what agreement hath the temple of God with idols? For you are the temple of the living God: as God saith: I will dwell in them and walk among them. And I will be their God: and they shall be my people.

Context
A Temple in the Lord
20Built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ himself being the chief corner stone: 21In whom all the building, being framed together, groweth up into an holy temple in the Lord. 22In whom you also are built together into an habitation of God in the Spirit.…
Cross References
1 Corinthians 3:16
Know you not that you are the temple of God and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you?

Ephesians 4:15
But doing the truth in charity, we may in all things grow up in him who is the head, even Christ:

Colossians 2:19
And not holding the head, from which the whole body, by joints and bands, being supplied with nourishment and compacted, groweth into the increase of God.

1 Timothy 3:15
But if I tarry long, that thou mayest know how thou oughtest to behave thyself in the house of God, which is the church of the living God, the pillar and ground of the truth.

Ephesians 2:20
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