The Word became flesh and took up residence among us. We observed His glory, the glory as the One and Only Son from the Father, full of grace and truth.

For God was pleased [to have] all His fullness dwell in Him,

For in Him the entire fullness of God's nature dwells bodily,

a minister of the sanctuary and the true tabernacle, which the Lord set up, and not man.

Don't you know that you are God's sanctuary and that the Spirit of God lives in you?

Do you not know that your body is a sanctuary of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have from God? You are not your own,

And what agreement does God's sanctuary have with idols? For we are the sanctuary of the living God, as God said: I will dwell among them and walk among them, and I will be their God, and they will be My people.

built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, with Christ Jesus Himself as the cornerstone.

in whom you also are being built together for God's dwelling in the Spirit.

Coming to Him, a living stone-- rejected by men but chosen and valuable to God--

you yourselves, as living stones, are being built into a spiritual house for a holy priesthood to offer spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.