22 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.

This verse quotes or alludes to 3 earlier texts.

• Lev 26:11 · adapted
  "And I will set my tabernacle among you: and my soul shall not abhor you."
  Leviticus: I will dwell among them and walk among them — temple of God
• Lev 26:12 · paraphrase
  "And I will walk among you, and will be your God, and ye shall be my people."
  Leviticus: I will walk among you and be your God — Paul on the temple
• Ezek 37:27 · allusion
  "My tabernacle also shall be with them: yea, I will be their God, and they shall be my people."
  Ezekiel: I will dwell among them — Paul on believers as God's temple

2 variant units attested by manuscript witnesses and modern critical editions.

• Temple and Tabernacle

8 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.

• 1Cor 3:9 — For we are labourers together with God: ye are God’s husbandry, ye are God’s building.
• 1Cor 3:16 — Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you?
• 1Cor 3:16 — Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you?
• 1Cor 6:19 — What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own?
• 1Cor 6:19 — What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own?
• 1John 3:24 — And he that keepeth his commandments dwelleth in him, and he in him. And hereby we know that he abideth in us, by the Spirit which he hath given us.
• 1John 4:4 — Ye are of God, little children, and have overcome them: because greater is he that is in you, than he that is in the world.
• 1John 4:12 — No man hath seen God at any time. If we love one another, God dwelleth in us, and his love is perfected in us.
• 1John 4:15 — Whosoever shall confess that Jesus is the Son of God, God dwelleth in him, and he in God.
• 1John 5:20 — And we know that the Son of God is come, and hath given us an understanding, that we may know him that is true, and we are in him that is true, even in his Son Jesus Christ. This is the true God, and
• 1John 5:21 — Little children, keep yourselves from idols. Amen.
• 1Kgs 18:21 — And Elijah came unto all the people, and said, How long halt ye between two opinions? if the LORD be God, follow him: but if Baal, then follow him. And the people answered him not a word.
• 1Pet 2:5 — Ye also, as lively stones, are built up a spiritual house, an holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God by Jesus Christ.
• 1Pet 2:5 — Ye also, as lively stones, are built up a spiritual house, an holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God by Jesus Christ.
• 1Sam 7:3 — And Samuel spake unto all the house of Israel, saying, If ye do return unto the LORD with all your hearts, then put away the strange gods and Ashtaroth from among you, and prepare your hearts unto the
• 1Sam 15:23 — For rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft, and stubbornness is as iniquity and idolatry. Because thou hast rejected the word of the LORD, he hath also rejected thee from being king.
• 1Tim 3:15 — But if I tarry long, that thou mayest know how thou oughtest to behave thyself in the house of God, which is the church of the living God, the pillar and ground of the truth.
• 2Chr 33:4 — Also he built altars in the house of the LORD, whereof the LORD had said, In Jerusalem shall my name be for ever.
• 2Cor 3:3 — Forasmuch as ye are manifestly declared to be the epistle of Christ ministered by us, written not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God; not in tables of stone, but in fleshy tables of the h
• 2Cor 13:5 — Examine yourselves, whether ye be in the faith; prove your own selves. Know ye not your own selves, how that Jesus Christ is in you, except ye be reprobates?
• 2Kgs 17:33 — They feared the LORD, and served their own gods, after the manner of the nations whom they carried away from thence.
• 2Kgs 21:4 — And he built altars in the house of the LORD, of which the LORD said, In Jerusalem will I put my name.
• 2Kgs 23:5 — And he put down the idolatrous priests, whom the kings of Judah had ordained to burn incense in the high places in the cities of Judah, and in the places round about Jerusalem; them also that burned i
• 2Tim 1:14 — That good thing which was committed unto thee keep by the Holy Ghost which dwelleth in us.
• Col 1:27 — To whom God would make known what is the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles; which is Christ in you, the hope of glory:
• Dan 2:11 — And it is a rare thing that the king requireth, and there is none other that can shew it before the king, except the gods, whose dwelling is not with flesh.
• Deut 4:23 — Take heed unto yourselves, lest ye forget the covenant of the LORD your God, which he made with you, and make you a graven image, or the likeness of any thing, which the LORD thy God hath forbidden th
• Deut 5:7 — Thou shalt have none other gods before me.
• Deut 6:14 — Ye shall not go after other gods, of the gods of the people which are round about you;
• Deut 23:14 — For the LORD thy God walketh in the midst of thy camp, to deliver thee, and to give up thine enemies before thee; therefore shall thy camp be holy: that he see no unclean thing in thee, and turn away
• Eph 2:20 — And are built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ himself being the chief corner stone;
• Eph 2:21 — In whom all the building fitly framed together groweth unto an holy temple in the Lord:
• Eph 2:22 — In whom ye also are builded together for an habitation of God through the Spirit.
• Eph 3:17 — That Christ may dwell in your hearts by faith; that ye, being rooted and grounded in love,
• Eph 3:17 — That Christ may dwell in your hearts by faith; that ye, being rooted and grounded in love,
• Eph 4:6 — One God and Father of all, who is above all, and through all, and in you all.
• Exod 20:3 — Thou shalt have no other gods before me.
• Exod 23:13 — And in all things that I have said unto you be circumspect: and make no mention of the name of other gods, neither let it be heard out of thy mouth.
• Exod 25:8 — And let them make me a sanctuary; that I may dwell among them.
• Exod 29:45 — And I will dwell among the children of Israel, and will be their God.