Ephesians 2:21

I will dwell among the children of Israel, and will be their God.

I heard a loud voice out of heaven saying, “Behold, God’s dwelling is with people, and he will dwell with them, and they will be his people, and God himself will be with them as their God.

Then they will be my people, and I will be their God.

I will walk among you, and will be your God, and you will be my people.

“For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel. After those days,” says the Lord; “I will put my laws into their mind, I will also write them on their heart. I will be their God, and they will be my people.

that they may walk in my statutes, and keep my ordinances, and do them. They will be my people, and I will be their God.

Therefore, my beloved brothers, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the Lord’s work, because you know that your labor is not in vain in the Lord.

“But this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days,” says Yahweh: “I will put my law in their inward parts, and I will write it in their heart. I will be their God, and they shall be my people.

I will sow her to me in the earth; and I will have mercy on her who had not obtained mercy; and I will tell those who were not my people, ‘You are my people;’ and they will say, ‘My God!’ ”

He who overcomes, I will give him these things. I will be his God, and he will be my son.

I will give them a heart to know me, that I am Yahweh. They will be my people, and I will be their God; for they will return to me with their whole heart.

and I will bring them, and they will dwell within Jerusalem; and they will be my people, and I will be their God, in truth and in righteousness.”

I will bring the third part into the fire, and will refine them as silver is refined, and will test them like gold is tested. They will call on my name, and I will hear them. I will say, ‘It is my people;’ and they will say, ‘Yahweh is my God.’ ”

You will dwell in the land that I gave to your fathers. You will be my people, and I will be your God.

Watch! Stand firm in the faith! Be courageous! Be strong!

For although by this time you should be teachers, you again need to have someone teach you the rudiments of the first principles of the revelations of God. You have come to need milk, and not solid food.

But if the Spirit of him who raised up Jesus from the dead dwells in you, he who raised up Christ Jesus from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through his Spirit who dwells in you.

“It will be that in the place where it was said to them, ‘You are not my people,’ there they will be called ‘children of the living God.’ ”

I fed you with milk, not with meat; for you weren’t yet ready. Indeed, you aren’t ready even now,

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

Let them make me a sanctuary, that I may dwell among them.

He who eats my flesh and drinks my blood lives in me, and I in him.

but Christ is faithful as a Son over his house. We are his house, if we hold fast our confidence and the glorying of our hope firm to the end.

For we have become partakers of Christ, if we hold the beginning of our confidence firm to the end,

For everyone who lives on milk is not experienced in the word of righteousness, for he is a baby.

Whoever confesses that Jesus is the Son of God, God remains in him, and he in God.

for you shall worship no other god; for Yahweh, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God.

Yahweh’s law is perfect, restoring the soul. Yahweh’s covenant is sure, making wise the simple.

Or don’t you know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have from God? You are not your own,

Or do you think that the Scripture says in vain, “The Spirit who lives in us yearns jealously”?

“You shall have no other gods before me.

“Be careful to do all things that I have said to you; and don’t invoke the name of other gods or even let them be heard out of your mouth.

He said to me, “Son of man, this is the place of my throne, and the place of the soles of my feet, where I will dwell among the children of Israel forever. The house of Israel will no more defile my holy name, neither they, nor their kings, by their prostitution, and by the dead bodies of their kings in their high places;

Now let them put away their prostitution, and the dead bodies of their kings, far from me. Then I will dwell among them forever.

and said, “Most certainly I tell you, unless you turn, and become as little children, you will in no way enter into the Kingdom of Heaven.

This Good News of the Kingdom will be preached in the whole world for a testimony to all the nations, and then the end will come.

But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you. You will be witnesses to me in Jerusalem, in all Judea and Samaria, and to the uttermost parts of the earth.”

strengthening the souls of the disciples, exhorting them to continue in the faith, and that through many afflictions we must enter into God’s Kingdom.

But I would have you know that the head of every man is Christ, and the head of the woman is man, and the head of Christ is God.

Working together, we entreat also that you do not receive the grace of God in vain,

He put all things in subjection under his feet, and gave him to be head over all things for the assembly,

Therefore putting away falsehood, speak truth each one with his neighbor. For we are members of one another.

Without controversy, the mystery of godliness is great: God was revealed in the flesh, justified in the spirit, seen by angels, preached among the nations, believed on in the world, and received up in glory.

That good thing which was committed to you, guard through the Holy Spirit who dwells in us.

You also, as living stones, are built up as a spiritual house, to be a holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.

My little children, let’s not love in word only, or with the tongue only, but in deed and truth.

No one has seen God at any time. If we love one another, God remains in us, and his love has been perfected in us.

The king commanded, and they cut out large stones, costly stones, to lay the foundation of the house with worked stone.

Then he said to his disciples, “The harvest indeed is plentiful, but the laborers are few.

Simon Peter answered, “You are the Christ, the Son of the living God.”

But when Jesus saw it, he was moved with indignation, and said to them, “Allow the little children to come to me! Don’t forbid them, for God’s Kingdom belongs to such as these.

Most certainly I tell you, whoever will not receive God’s Kingdom like a little child, he will in no way enter into it.”

“I am the true vine, and my Father is the farmer.

Now there were dwelling in Jerusalem Jews, devout men, from every nation under the sky.

But you are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if it is so that the Spirit of God dwells in you. But if any man doesn’t have the Spirit of Christ, he is not his.

But I say, didn’t they hear? Yes, most certainly, “Their sound went out into all the earth, their words to the ends of the world.”

Don’t you know that you are a temple of God, and that God’s Spirit lives in you?

Brothers, don’t be children in thoughts, yet in malice be babies, but in thoughts be mature.

but speaking truth in love, we may grow up in all things into him who is the head, Christ,

For this cause we also thank God without ceasing, that when you received from us the word of the message of God, you accepted it not as the word of men, but as it is in truth, the word of God, which also works in you who believe.

We are bound to always give thanks to God for you, brothers, even as it is appropriate, because your faith grows exceedingly, and the love of each and every one of you toward one another abounds,

But the righteous will live by faith. If he shrinks back, my soul has no pleasure in him.”

But grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. To him be the glory both now and forever. Amen.

“To the angel of the assembly in Ephesus write: “He who holds the seven stars in his right hand, he who walks among the seven golden lamp stands says these things:

Through wisdom a house is built; by understanding it is established;

“Hey! Come, everyone who thirsts, to the waters! Come, he who has no money, buy, and eat! Yes, come, buy wine and milk without money and without price.

“No one can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one and love the other; or else he will be devoted to one and despise the other. You can’t serve both God and Mammon.

He said to them, “Go into all the world, and preach the Good News to the whole creation.

You didn’t choose me, but I chose you and appointed you, that you should go and bear fruit, and that your fruit should remain; that whatever you will ask of the Father in my name, he may give it to you.

being revealed that you are a letter of Christ, served by us, written not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God; not in tablets of stone, but in tablets that are hearts of flesh.

For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared before that we would walk in them.

of which I was made a servant according to the stewardship of God which was given me toward you to fulfill the word of God,

rooted and built up in him, and established in the faith, even as you were taught, abounding in it in thanksgiving.

For now we live, if you stand fast in the Lord.

Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who according to his great mercy caused us to be born again to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,

You are of God, little children, and have overcome them; because greater is he who is in you than he who is in the world.

There is salvation in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven that is given among men, by which we must be saved!”

What agreement does a temple of God have with idols? For you are a temple of the living God. Even as God said, “I will dwell in them and walk in them. I will be their God and they will be my people.”

They were double beneath, and in the same way they were all the way to its top to one ring. He did this to both of them in the two corners.

The house, when it was under construction, was built of stone prepared at the quarry; and no hammer or ax or any tool of iron was heard in the house while it was under construction.

Your statutes stand firm. Holiness adorns your house, Yahweh, forever more.

According to the doors of the rooms that were toward the south was a door at the head of the way, even the way directly before the wall toward the east, as one enters into them.

For we are God’s fellow workers. You are God’s farming, God’s building.

if it is so that you continue in the faith, grounded and steadfast, and not moved away from the hope of the Good News which you heard, which is being proclaimed in all creation under heaven, of which I, Paul, was made a servant.

as newborn babies, long for the pure milk of the Word, that with it you may grow,