Christ Our Cornerstone
Ephesians 2:21
In 9 translations
- BSB
- In Him the whole building is fitted together and grows into a holy temple in the Lord.
- KJV
- In whom all the building fitly framed together groweth unto an holy temple in the Lord:
- WEB
- in whom the whole building, fitted together, grows into a holy temple in the Lord;
- ASV
- in whom each several building, fitly framed together, groweth into a holy temple in the Lord;
- LSV
- in whom all the building fitly framed together increases to a holy temple in the LORD,
- YLT
- in whom all the building fitly framed together doth increase to an holy sanctuary in the Lord,
- DBY
- in whom all [the] building fitted together increases to a holy temple in the Lord;
- DRC
- In whom all the building, being framed together, groweth up into an holy temple in the Lord.
- GNV
- In whom all the building coupled together, groweth vnto an holy Temple in the Lord.
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Spelling, punctuation and minor wording (1)
- In STEPBible’s comparison, Textus Receptus include ἡ (“the”); NA28, NA27, Tyndale House, SBLGNT (2010), Westcott–Hort, Tregelles, Byzantine text do not include this wording.
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- SBLGNT: πᾶσα. Westcott and Hort (1881), Tregelles, Robinson–Pierpont, Nestle–Aland 28th edition read πᾶσα; the Greek text behind the NIV add ἡ.
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Original-language editions
- SBLGNT
- ἐν ᾧ πᾶσα οἰκοδομὴ συναρμολογουμένη αὔξει εἰς ναὸν ἅγιον ἐν κυρίῳ,
- RP2018
- ἐν ᾧ πᾶσα οἰκοδομὴ συναρμολογουμένη αὔξει εἰς ναὸν ἅγιον ἐν κυρίῳ,
- TR-Boyd
- ἐν ᾧ πᾶσα ἡ οἰκοδομὴ συναρμολογουμένη αὔξει εἰς ναὸν ἅγιον ἐν Κυρίῳ,
- SCR1894
- εν ω πασα η οικοδομη συναρμολογουμενη αυξει εις ναον αγιον εν κυριω
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- 1 Corinthians 3:16–17Do 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.
- 1 Corinthians 3:9For we are God’s fellow workers; you are God’s field, God’s building.
- 2 Corinthians 6:16What 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.”
- Ephesians 4:13–16until we all reach unity in the faith and in the knowledge of the Son of God, as we mature to the full measure of the stature of Christ. Then we will no longer be infants, tossed about by the waves and carried around…
- 1 Kings 6:7The temple was constructed using finished stones cut at the quarry, so that no hammer or chisel or any other iron tool was heard in the temple while it was being built.
- Hebrews 3:3–4For Jesus has been counted worthy of greater glory than Moses, just as the builder of a house has greater honor than the house itself. And every house is built by someone, but God is the builder of everything.
- Exodus 26:1–37“You are to construct the tabernacle itself with ten curtains of finely spun linen, each with blue, purple, and scarlet yarn, and cherubim skillfully worked into them. Each curtain shall be twenty-eight cubits long and…
- Psalms 93:5Your testimonies are fully confirmed; holiness adorns Your house, O LORD, for all the days to come.
- Ezekiel 42:12And corresponding to the doors of the chambers that were facing south, there was a door in front of the walkway that was parallel to the wall extending eastward.
- Ezekiel 40:1–42In the twenty-fifth year of our exile, at the beginning of the year, on the tenth day of the month—in the fourteenth year after Jerusalem had been struck down—on that very day the hand of the LORD was upon me, and He…
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