¹⁶ Do you not know that you are God’s temple and the Spirit of God dwells in you? ¹⁷ If anyone destroys God’s temple, God will destroy this one. For God’s temple is holy, which you are.

¹⁹ Consequently, therefore, you are no longer strangers and foreigners, but you are fellow citizens of the saints and members of the household of God, ²⁰ built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Christ Jesus himself being the cornerstone,^{[a] 21} in whom the whole building, joined together, grows into a holy temple in the Lord, ²² in whom you also are built up together into a dwelling place of God in the Spirit.^[b]