Ephesians 2:22

Bible in Basic English (1941)

In whom you, with the rest, are united together as a living-place of God in the Spirit.

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Referenced Verses

  • 1 Cor 3:16 : 16 Do you not see that you are God's holy house, and that the Spirit of God has his place in you?
  • 1 Pet 2:4-5 : 4 To whom you come, as to a living stone, not honoured by men, but of great and special value to God; 5 You, as living stones, are being made into a house of the spirit, a holy order of priests, making those offerings of the spirit which are pleasing to God through Jesus Christ.
  • 1 John 4:16 : 16 And we have seen and had faith in the love which God has for us. God is love, and everyone who has love is in God, and God is in him.
  • 1 John 3:24 : 24 He who keeps his laws is in God and God is in him. And the Spirit which he gave us is our witness that he is in us.
  • 1 John 4:13 : 13 And his Spirit which he has given us is the witness that we are in him and he is in us.
  • John 14:17-23 : 17 Even the Spirit of true knowledge. That Spirit the world is not able to take to its heart because it sees him not and has no knowledge of him: but you have knowledge of him, because he is ever with you and will be in you. 18 I will not let you be without a friend: I am coming to you. 19 A little time longer, and the world will see me no more; but you will see me; and you will be living because I am living. 20 At that time it will be clear to you that I am in my Father, and you are in me, and I in you. 21 He who has my laws and keeps them, he it is who has love for me: and he who has love for me will be loved by my Father, and I will have love for him and will let myself be seen clearly by him. 22 Judas (not Iscariot) said to him, How is it that you will let yourself be seen clearly by us and not by the world? 23 Jesus said to him in answer, If anyone has love for me, he will keep my words: and he will be dear to my Father; and we will come to him and make our living-place with him.
  • John 17:21-23 : 21 May they all be one! Even as you, Father, are in me and I am in you, so let them be in us, so that all men may come to have faith that you sent me. 22 And the glory which you have given to me I have given to them, so that they may be one even as we are one; 23 I in them, and you in me, so that they may be made completely one, and so that it may become clear to all men that you have sent me and that they are loved by you as I am loved by you.
  • Rom 8:9-9 : 9 You are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if the Spirit of God is in you. But if any man has not the Spirit of Christ he is not one 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 who made Jesus come again from the dead is in you, he who made Christ Jesus come again from the dead will in the same way, through his Spirit which is in you, give life to your bodies which now are under the power of death.
  • 1 Cor 6:19 : 19 Or are you not conscious that your body is a house for the Holy Spirit which is in you, and which has been given to you by God? and you are not the owners of yourselves;
  • 2 Cor 6:16 : 16 And what agreement has the house of God with images? for we are a house of the living God; even as God has said, I will be living among them, and walking with them; and I will be their God, and they will be my people.
  • Eph 3:17 : 17 So that Christ may have his place in your hearts through faith; and that you, being rooted and based in love,

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    18 Because through him the two of us are able to come near in one Spirit to the Father.

    19 So then you are no longer as those who have no part or place in the kingdom of God, but you are numbered among the saints, and of the family of God,

    20 Resting on the base of the Apostles and prophets, Christ Jesus himself being the chief keystone,

    21 In whom all the building, rightly joined together, comes to be a holy house of God in the Lord;

  • 1 Cor 3:16-17
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    16 Do you not see that you are God's holy house, and that the Spirit of God has his place in you?

    17 If anyone makes the house of God unclean, God will put an end to him; for the house of God is holy, and you are his house.

  • 1 Pet 2:4-6
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    4 To whom you come, as to a living stone, not honoured by men, but of great and special value to God;

    5 You, as living stones, are being made into a house of the spirit, a holy order of priests, making those offerings of the spirit which are pleasing to God through Jesus Christ.

    6 Because it is said in the Writings, See, I am placing a keystone in Zion, of great and special value; and the man who has faith in him will not be put to shame.

  • 1 Cor 3:9-11
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    9 For we are workers with God: you are God's planting, God's building.

    10 In the measure of the grace given to me, I, as a wise master-builder, have put the base in position, and another goes on building on it. But let every man take care what he puts on it.

    11 For there is no other base for the building but that which has been put down, which is Jesus Christ.

  • Eph 4:15-16
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    15 But saying true words in love, may come to full growth in him, who is the head, even Christ;

    16 Through whom all the body, being rightly formed and united together, by the full working of every part, is increased to the building up of itself in love.

  • Jude 1:20
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    20 But you, my loved ones, building yourselves up on your most holy faith, and making prayers in the Holy Spirit,

  • 2 Cor 6:16
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    16 And what agreement has the house of God with images? for we are a house of the living God; even as God has said, I will be living among them, and walking with them; and I will be their God, and they will be my people.

  • Heb 3:4
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    4 For every house has a builder; but the builder of all things is God.

  • Eph 2:1
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    1 And to you did he give life, when you were dead through your wrongdoing and sins,

  • 2 Cor 5:1-2
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    1 For we are conscious that if this our tent of flesh is taken down, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal, in heaven.

    2 For in this we are crying in weariness, greatly desiring to be clothed with our house from heaven:

  • Eph 1:13
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    13 In whom you, having been given the true word, the good news of your salvation, and through your faith in him, were given the sign of the Holy Spirit of hope,

  • Col 2:9-10
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    9 For in him all the wealth of God's being has a living form,

    10 And you are complete in him, who is the head of all rule and authority:

  • Eph 3:16-17
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    16 That in the wealth of his glory he would make you strong with power through his Spirit in your hearts;

    17 So that Christ may have his place in your hearts through faith; and that you, being rooted and based in love,

  • Eph 2:5-6
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    5 Even when we were dead through our sins, gave us life together with Christ (by grace you have salvation),

    6 So that we came back from death with him, and are seated with him in the heavens, in Christ Jesus;

  • 2 Cor 5:5
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    5 Now he who has made us for this very thing is God, who has given us the Spirit as a witness of what is to come.

  • 2 Cor 1:21-22
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    21 Now he who makes our faith strong together with you, in Christ, and has given us of his grace, is God;

    22 And it is he who has put his stamp on us, even the Spirit, as the sign in our hearts of the coming glory.

  • 1 Cor 6:17
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    17 But he who is united to the Lord is one spirit.

  • Eph 1:23
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    23 Which is his body, the full measure of him in whom all things are made complete.

  • 1 Cor 6:19
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    19 Or are you not conscious that your body is a house for the Holy Spirit which is in you, and which has been given to you by God? and you are not the owners of yourselves;

  • Eph 2:10
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    10 For by his act we were given existence in Christ Jesus to do those good works which God before made ready for us so that we might do them.

  • Col 2:7
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    7 Rooted and based together in him, strong in the faith which the teaching gave you, giving praise to God at all times.

  • Eph 4:23
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    23 And be made new in the spirit of your mind,

  • 1 Cor 12:27
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    27 Now you are the body of Christ, and every one of you the separate parts of it.

  • Col 2:19
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    19 And not joined to the Head, from whom all the body, being given strength and kept together through its joins and bands, has its growth with the increase of God.

  • Rom 12:5
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    5 So we, though we are a number of persons, are one body in Christ, and are dependent on one another;

  • Eph 2:8
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    8 Because by grace you have salvation through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is given by God:

  • 1 Cor 12:12-13
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    12 For as the body is one, and has a number of parts, and all the parts make one body, so is Christ.

    13 For through the baptism of the one Spirit we were all formed into one body, Jews or Greeks, servants or free men, and were all made full of the same Spirit.

  • 1 Cor 3:23
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    23 And you are Christ's; and Christ is God's.

  • Rom 8:9
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    9 You are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if the Spirit of God is in you. But if any man has not the Spirit of Christ he is not one of his.

  • Eph 4:6
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    6 One God and Father of all, who is over all, and through all, and in all.

  • 1 John 4:13
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    13 And his Spirit which he has given us is the witness that we are in him and he is in us.

  • Eph 4:4
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    4 There is one body and one Spirit, even as you have been marked out by God in the one hope of his purpose for you;

  • Eph 4:12
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    12 For the training of the saints as servants in the church, for the building up of the body of Christ:

  • 1 Cor 6:11
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    11 And such were some of you; but you have been washed, you have been made holy, you have been given righteousness in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and in the Spirit of our God.

  • 1 Chr 22:2
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    2 And David gave orders to get together all the men from strange lands who were in the land of Israel; and he put stone-cutters to work, cutting stones for building the house of God.