Ephesians 2:21
In whom all the building fitly framed together groweth unto an holy temple in the Lord:
KJV
ἐν ᾧ πᾶσα οἰκοδομὴ συναρμολογουμένη αὔξει εἰς ναὸν ἅγιον ἐν κυρίῳ,
Greek NT
in quo omnis ædificatio constructa crescit in templum sanctum in Domino,
Vulgate
in whom each several building, fitly framed together, groweth into a holy temple in the Lord;
ASV
In whom all the building, being framed together, groweth up into an holy temple in the Lord.
Douay-Rheims
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In the original Greek
10 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.
αὐξάνω
auxano
verb · 22×
εἰς
eis
preposition · 1769×
κύριος
kurios
noun · 717×
ναός
naos
noun · 45×
οἰκοδομή
oikodome
noun · 18×
πᾶς
pas
adjective · 1226×
συναρμολογέω
sunarmologeo
verb · 2×
ἅγιος
agios
adjective · 233×
ἐν
en
preposition · 2743×
ὅς
os
relative_pronoun · 1404×
Textual variants
1 variant unit attested by manuscript witnesses and modern critical editions.
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SBLGNT: πᾶσα | WH/Treg/NA/RP: πᾶσα | NIV: + ἡ
- πᾶσα — SBLGNT
- πᾶσα — Westcott-Hort, Tregelles, Nestle-Aland 27, Robinson-Pierpont
- + ἡ — Reader's GNT (NA27)
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Themes
Historic Christian voices
10 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.
Catechism of the Catholic Church · 2 passages
§756"Often, too, the Church is called the building of God. the Lord compared himself to the stone which the builders rejected, but which was made into the comer-stone. On this foundation the Church is built by the apostles and from it the Church receives solidity and unity. This edifice has many names to describe it: the house of God in which his family dwells; the household of God…
§797"What the soul is to the human body, the Holy Spirit is to the Body of Christ, which is the Church."243 "To this Spirit of Christ, as an invisible principle, is to be ascribed the fact that all the parts of the body are joined one with the other and with their exalted head; for the whole Spirit of Christ is in the head, the whole Spirit is in the body, and the whole Spirit is i…
§7We have been no less consoled to know that with spontaneous generosity a fund has been created for the erection of a church in Rome to be dedicated to our saintly predecessor and patron, Eugene I. At this temple, to be built by the wish and through the liberality of all the faithful, will be a lasting memorial of this happy event, so We desire to offer this Encyclical Letter in…
Mediator Dei · 2 passages
§19The Church has, therefore, in common with the Word Incarnate the aim, the obligation and the function of teaching all men the truth, of governing and directing them aright, of offering to God the pleasing and acceptable sacrifice; in this way the Church re-establishes between the Creator and His creatures that unity and harmony to which the Apostle of the Gentiles alludes in th…
§21Liturgical practice begins with the very founding of the Church. The first Christians, in fact, "were persevering in the doctrine of the apostles and in the communication of the breaking of bread and in prayers."[23] Whenever their pastors can summon a little group of the faithful together, they set up an altar on which they proceed to offer the sacrifice, and around which are …
Moreover, I will also tell you concerning the temple, how the wretched people, being deceived, set their hope on the building, and not on their God that made them, as being a house of God.
1. A certain one of those of moderate talent, who had composed a discourse, stepped forward in the presence of many pastors who were assembled as if for a church gathering, and while they attended quietly and decently, he addressed himself as follows to one who was in all things a most excellent bishop and beloved of God, through whose zeal the temple in Tyre, which was the mos…
Cross-references
- 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?
- 1Kgs 6:7 — And the house, when it was in building, was built of stone made ready before it was brought thither: so that there was neither hammer nor axe nor any tool of iron heard in the house, while it was in b
- 1Pet 2:2 — As newborn babes, desire the sincere milk of the word, that ye may grow thereby:
- 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.
- 2Cor 6:16 — And what agreement hath the temple of God with idols? for ye are the temple of the living God; as God hath said, I will dwell in them, and walk in them; and I will be their God, and they shall be my p
- Eph 3:17 — That Christ may dwell in your hearts by faith; that ye, being rooted and grounded in love,
- Eph 4:13 — Till we all come in the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, unto a perfect man, unto the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ:
- Eph 4:15 — But speaking the truth in love, may grow up into him in all things, which is the head, even Christ:
- Exod 26:1 — Moreover thou shalt make the tabernacle with ten curtains of fine twined linen, and blue, and purple, and scarlet: with cherubims of cunning work shalt thou make them.
- Hab 2:20 — But the LORD is in his holy temple: let all the earth keep silence before him.
- Heb 3:3 — For this man was counted worthy of more glory than Moses, inasmuch as he who hath builded the house hath more honour than the house.
- Zech 8:3 — Thus saith the LORD; I am returned unto Zion, and will dwell in the midst of Jerusalem: and Jerusalem shall be called a city of truth; and the mountain of the LORD of hosts the holy mountain.