Ephesians 2:21 Cross References

Ephesians 2:21

21: We who believe are carefully joined together, becoming a holy temple for the Lord.

Don't you realize that all of you together are the temple of God and that the Spirit of God lives in you?
God will bring ruin upon anyone who ruins this temple. For God's temple is holy, and you Christians are that temple.

And what union can there be between God's temple and idols? For we are the temple of the living God. As God said: "I will live in them and walk among them. I will be their God, and they will be my people.

We work together as partners who belong to God. You are God's field, God's building--not ours.

until we come to such unity in our faith and knowledge of God's Son that we will be mature and full grown in the Lord, measuring up to the full stature of Christ.
Then we will no longer be like children, forever changing our minds about what we believe because someone has told us something different or because someone has cleverly lied to us and made the lie sound like the truth.
Instead, we will hold to the truth in love, becoming more and more in every way like Christ, who is the head of his body, the church.
Under his direction, the whole body is fitted together perfectly. As each part does its own special work, it helps the other parts grow, so that the whole body is healthy and growing and full of love.

"Make the Tabernacle from ten sheets of fine linen. These sheets are to be decorated with blue, purple, and scarlet yarn, with figures of cherubim skillfully embroidered into them.
Each sheet must be forty-two feet long and six feet wide. All ten sheets must be exactly the same size.
Join five of these sheets together into one set; then join the other five sheets into a second set.
Put loops of blue yarn along the edge of the last sheet in each set.
The fifty loops along the edge of one set are to match the fifty loops along the edge of the other.

Your royal decrees cannot be changed. The nature of your reign, O LORD, is holiness forever.

But Jesus deserves far more glory than Moses, just as a person who builds a fine house deserves more praise than the house itself.
For every house has a builder, but God is the one who made everything.

The stones used in the construction of the Temple were prefinished at the quarry, so the entire structure was built without the sound of hammer, ax, or any other iron tool at the building site.

So there was an entrance in the wall facing the doors of the inner block of rooms, and another on the east at the end of the interior walkway.

On April 28, during the twenty-fifth year of our captivity--fourteen years after the fall of Jerusalem--the LORD took hold of me.
In a vision of God he took me to the land of Israel and set me down on a very high mountain. From there I could see what appeared to be a city across from me toward the south.
As he brought me nearer, I saw a man whose face shone like bronze standing beside a gateway entrance. He was holding in his hand a measuring tape and a measuring rod.
He said to me, "Son of man, watch and listen. Pay close attention to everything I show you. You have been brought here so I can show you many things. Then you will return to the people of Israel and tell them everything you have seen."
I could see a wall completely surrounding the Temple area. The man took a measuring rod that was 10 1/2 feet long and measured the wall, and the wall was 10 1/2 feet thick and 10 1/2 feet high.

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