T verses T

Many times, believers talk about themselves (individually) as being the temple…..something I used to do myself.

But in the “New Testament Epistles” the Temple gives reference to the body of Christ (plural) as a group.... be it a smaller gathering or the entire body of believers …..the following verses give reference

1Co 3:16&3:17, 1Co 6:19, 2Co 6:16, Eph 2:21.



The individual believer in the following verses….. are referred to as the tabernacle.

2Co 5:1, 2Co 5:4, Heb 8:2, Heb 9:11, 2Pe 1:13, 2Pe 1:14



2Co 5:1 For we know that if our earthly house of this tabernacle were dissolved, we have a building of God, an house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens.

2Co 5:4 For we that are in this tabernacle do groan, being burdened: not for that we would be unclothed, but clothed upon, that mortality might be swallowed up of life.

2Pe 1:13 Yea, I think it meet, as long as I am in this tabernacle, to stir you up by putting you in remembrance;

2Pe 1:14 Knowing that shortly I must put off this my tabernacle, even as our Lord Jesus Christ hath shewed me.


When you do a study on the OT tabernacle…. and the correlation between that and our lives as born-again believers…in conjunction with us collectively being the temple (body of Christ) it gets really interesting.

We, plural, are the Body of Jesus Yeshua, while He is the Head. He is the Chief and the Cornerstone taken to heaven, rejected of man.

When He returns, He, Himself, will build the Temple.

Yes ...members in particular of the one body....

What is interesting is throughout the OT and gospels the temple is a physical structure. In the epistles all the members of the one body are the Temple with the individual believer being the tabernacle .....When you get to Revelation..... it changes back, as you stated, to a physical structure.

“And I saw no temple therein: for the Lord God Almighty and the Lamb are the temple of it.”
‭‭Revelation‬ ‭21:22‬ ‭

Christ Jesus is the temple of God there will never be a need for a temple again Gods spirit dwells within believers both individually and as a group

The group aspect is highlighted in the op and then the individual aspect

“Flee fornication. Every sin that a man doeth is without the body; but he that committeth fornication sinneth against his own body. 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?

For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God's.”
‭‭1 Corinthians‬ ‭6:18-20‬ ‭KJV‬‬

In the heavenly Jerusalem when Christ returns God won’t be inside a building he will be walking around among us in the body of Christ his temple. He has already rebuilt the temple it took him three days

“Jesus answered and said unto them, Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up. Then said the Jews, Forty and six years was this temple in building, and wilt thou rear it up in three days?

But he spake of the temple of his body. When therefore he was risen from the dead, his disciples remembered that he had said this unto them; and they believed the scripture, and the word which Jesus had said.”
‭‭John‬ ‭2:19-22‬ ‭KJV‬‬

God dwells in Christ and Christ in God and we in him and his spirit in us

^ @Pilgrimshope , in 1Cor6:19... no definite article ('the') in the Greek.

As I understand it, whenever Paul spoke [wrote] of us [/'the Church which is His body'] as "temple" (whether corporately or individually), he never used "the definite article ['the']"



-- 1Cor6:19 - https://biblehub.com/interlinear/1_corinthians/6-19.htm for example

I’m sorry I can’t make any sense out of what your saying. And with cyber attacks these days I don’t click on links I don’t know

^ My apologies (I understand your hesitancy to click on links you are unfamiliar with = ) )...

If you have a hard copy of an interlinear, or three (as I do, at my fingertips, lol), or can find an online site that you DO trust, which shows "interlinear" Greek, these will show what I am pointing out in 1Cor6:19, that there is no "definite article" ('the') used with the word "temple," in this text.











Have a good evening. = )

I appreciate you clarifying what you means meant. I’m simple , I just trust the word that’s in my language and that God was able to get it to all nations in thier language . To start debating transliteration sand translation ect is a rabbit hole I’ve found it better to just pray about understanding Gods word he’s able to teach us with the translation we understand and are comfortable with.

faith is wonderful I don’t think the Bible has anything wrong for the last four hundred years I think now days we tend to over think what it says rather than believing we seem to trust the internet too much and it depends on which online explaination of transliteration see look at ect

I’m pretty solid that the Bible is right and Gods work is what brought it to the shelves in our homes . It’s up to us if we want to let it get dusty I’m a Bible believer and don’t really have room for the studies of whether it’s reliable I’m already convinced

^ Well, I can only speak for myself, when I say, that when this truth (I speak of) was first brought to my attention, it was a delight to my soul and made my spirit rejoice. I can't really explain that... but that's how it affected me.


Be blessed. = )

yes no offense meant at all we should all pursue the path we are learning from

you also God bless you