Ephesians 3:17

American Standard Version (1901)

that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith; to the end that ye, being rooted and grounded in love,

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  • John 14:23 : 23 Jesus answered and said unto him, If a man love me, he will keep my word: and my Father will love him, and we will come unto him, and make our abode with him.
  • Col 2:7 : 7 rooted and builded up in him, and established in your faith, even as ye were taught, abounding in thanksgiving.
  • 1 John 4:16 : 16 And we know and have believed the love which God hath in us. God is love; and he that abideth in love abideth in God, and God abideth in him.
  • Gal 2:20 : 20 I have been crucified with Christ; and it is no longer I that live, but Christ living in me: and that [life] which I now live in the flesh I live in faith, [the faith] which is in the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself up for me.
  • Col 1:23 : 23 if so be that ye continue in the faith, grounded and stedfast, and not moved away from the hope of the gospel which ye heard, which was preached in all creation under heaven; whereof I Paul was made a minister.
  • Matt 13:6 : 6 and when the sun was risen, they were scorched; and because they had no root, they withered away.
  • Luke 6:48 : 48 he is like a man building a house, who digged and went deep, and laid a foundation upon the rock: and when a flood arose, the stream brake against that house, and could not shake it: because it had been well builded.
  • Matt 7:24-25 : 24 Every one therefore that heareth these words of mine, and doeth them, shall be likened unto a wise man, who built his house upon the rock: 25 and the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house; and if fell not: for it was founded upon the rock.
  • Rom 5:5 : 5 and hope putteth not to shame; because the love of God hath been shed abroad in our hearts through the Holy Spirit which was given unto us.
  • Rom 8:9-9 : 9 But ye are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if so be that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you. But if any man hath not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of his. 10 And if Christ is in you, the body is dead because of sin; but the spirit is life because of righteousness. 11 But if the Spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the dead dwelleth in you, he that raised up Christ Jesus from the dead shall give life also to your mortal bodies through his Spirit that dwelleth in you.
  • John 14:17 : 17 [ even] the Spirit of truth: whom the world cannot receive; for it beholdeth him not, neither knoweth him: ye know him; for he abideth with you, and shall be in you.
  • Eph 2:21-22 : 21 in whom each several building, fitly framed together, groweth into a holy temple in the Lord; 22 in whom ye also are builded together for a habitation of God in the Spirit.
  • Rev 3:20 : 20 Behold, I stand at the door and knock: if any man hear my voice and open the door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with me.
  • 1 John 4:4 : 4 Ye are of God, [my] little children, and have overcome them: because greater is he that is in you than he that is in the world.
  • Col 1:27 : 27 to whom God was pleased to make known what is the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles, which is Christ in you, the hope of glory:
  • Gal 5:6 : 6 For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision availeth anything, nor uncircumcision; but faith working through love.
  • 2 Cor 5:14-15 : 14 For the love of Christ constraineth us; because we thus judge, that one died for all, therefore all died; 15 and he died for all, that they that live should no longer live unto themselves, but unto him who for their sakes died and rose again.
  • 2 Cor 6:16 : 16 And what agreement hath a temple of God with idols? for we are a temple of the living God; even as God said, I will dwell in them, and walk in them; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people.
  • John 17:23 : 23 I in them, and thou in me, that they may be perfected into one; that the world may know that thou didst send me, and lovedst them, even as thou lovedst me.
  • Isa 57:15 : 15 For thus saith the high and lofty One that inhabiteth eternity, whose name is Holy: I dwell in the high and holy place, with him also that is of a contrite and humble spirit, to revive the spirit of the humble, and to revive the heart of the contrite.
  • John 6:56 : 56 He that eateth my flesh and drinketh my blood abideth in me, and I in him.
  • 1 Cor 8:1 : 1 Now concerning things sacrificed to idols: We know that we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffeth up, but love edifieth.

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    19 and what the exceeding greatness of his power to us-ward who believe, according to that working of the strength of his might

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    14 For this cause I bow my knees unto the Father,

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    22 in whom ye also are builded together for a habitation of God in the Spirit.

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