As believers, we are called to be a sanctuary for God's presence, a dwelling place where He can reside and be worshiped. According to 1 Corinthians 3:16, our bodies are temples of the Holy Spirit, and 2 Corinthians 6:16 emphasizes that we are the temple of the living God. In 1 Peter 2:9, we are described as a royal priesthood, a holy nation, set apart to declare God's praises, while Psalms 15:1-5 outlines the characteristics of those who may dwell on God's holy hill. Through Ephesians 3:16-19, we are strengthened with power through the Spirit to comprehend the depth of God's love, enabling us to be a sanctuary that honors Him.
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What agreement can exist between the temple of God and idols? For we are the temple of the living God. As God has said: “I will dwell with them and walk among them, and I will be their God, and they will be My people.”
Do you not know that you yourselves are God’s temple, and that God’s Spirit dwells in you?
But you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God’s own possession, to proclaim the virtues of Him who called you out of darkness into His marvelous light.
O LORD, who may abide in Your tent? Who may dwell on Your holy mountain? He who walks with integrity and practices righteousness, who speaks the truth from his heart, who has no slander on his tongue, who does no harm to his neighbor, who casts no scorn on his friend, who despises the vile but honors those who fear the LORD, who does not revise a costly oath, who lends his money without interest and refuses a bribe against the innocent. He who does these things will never be shaken.
I ask that out of the riches of His glory He may strengthen you with power through His Spirit in your inner being, so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith. Then you, being rooted and grounded in love, will have power, together with all the saints, to comprehend the length and width and height and depth of the love of Christ, and to know this love that surpasses knowledge, that you may be filled with all the fullness of God.
On the last and greatest day of the feast, Jesus stood up and called out in a loud voice, “If anyone is thirsty, let him come to Me and drink. Whoever believes in Me, as the Scripture has said: ‘Streams of living water will flow from within him.’” He was speaking about the Spirit, whom those who believed in Him were later to receive. For the Spirit had not yet been given, because Jesus had not yet been glorified.
Do you not know that you yourselves are God’s temple, and that God’s Spirit dwells in you? If anyone destroys God’s temple, God will destroy him; for God’s temple is holy, and you are that temple.