2 Corinthians 6:16 (WEB)
What agreement does a temple of God have with idols? For you are a temple of the living God. Even as God said, “I will dwell in them and walk in them. I will be their God and they will be my people.”
Catechism · 1
- §797Paragraph 2 · The Church - People of God, Body of Christ, Temple of the Holy SpiritRead at vatican.va
“The Holy Spirit makes the Church "the temple of the living God":” — Catechism footnote: 2 Cor 6:16; cf. 1 Cor 3:16-17; Eph 2:21.
Fathers and councils · 19
Tertullian
“In Platonic phrase, indeed, the body is a prison, but in the apostle’s it is “the temple of God,” because it is in Christ.” — editor's note: 1 Cor. iii. 16; vi. 19; 2 Cor. vi. 16.
Read the whole comment“Wherefore depart from the midst of them, be separate, and touch not the unclean.’” — editor's note: 2 Cor. vi. 16–18.
Read the whole comment“The same, I take it, as Christ has with Belial.” — editor's note: Comp. 2 Cor. vi. 14–16.
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Origen
- Origen, Against Celsus VIII.18Book VIII
“And the Word of God, wishing to set this clearly before us, represents God as promising to the righteous, “I will dwell in them, and walk among them; and I will be their God, and they shall be My people.”” — editor's note: 2 Cor. vi. 16.
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Gregory of Nyssa
“For if he uses such expressions with reference to vain idols and to the erroneous conceptions of those who worship them (even as Paul assures us that there is no agreement between Christ and Belial, and no fellowship between the temple of God and idols) we agree with him.” — editor's note: Cf. 2 Cor. vi. 15, 16.
Read the whole comment“Just as we, through soul and body, become a temple of Him Who “dwelleth in us and walketh in us,” even so the Lord terms their combination a “temple,” of which the “destruction” signifies the dissolution of the soul from the body.” — editor's note: Cf. 2 Cor. vi. 16.
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Athanasius of Alexandria
“…‘that ye may be partakers in a divine nature;’ as says too the Apostle, ‘Know ye not, that ye are a temple of God?’ and, ‘We are the temple of a living God.’” — editor's note: 1 Cor. iii. 16; 2 Cor. vi. 16.
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John Damascene
“These are made treasuries and pure habitations of God: For I will dwell in them, said God, and walk in them, and I will be their God.” — editor's note: Levit. xxvi. 12; 2 Cor. vi. 16.
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Cyril of Jerusalem
“…us, both men who live in chastity and women who wear the crown, I will dwell in them; and walk in them, and I will be their God, and they shall be My people.” — editor's note: 2 Cor. vi. 16.
Read the whole comment“Our Father, which art in heaven; and they also are a heaven who bear the image of the heavenly, in whom is God, dwelling and walking in them.” — editor's note: 2 Cor. vi. 16.
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Eusebius of Caesarea
“This also he clearly declares and confesses in the following words: ‘I will dwell in them and will walk in them; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people.’” — editor's note: 2 Cor. vi. 16.
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Ambrose of Milan
“…to our minds, so far as we could lay hold of Him, not only when He “emptied” Himself, but also when He dwelt in us, as it is written: “I will dwell in them.”” — editor's note: 2 Cor. vi. 16.
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John Chrysostom
“Again, they are; for “I will dwell in them,” He says, “and walk in them.” ( 2 Cor. vi. 16.)” — the author cites it
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Catena Aurea on Matthew
- JeromeCatena Aurea on Matthew
“What we have spoken of Churches let each man understand of himself, for the Apostle says, “Ye are the temple of God.” [2 Cor 6:16] Let there not be therefore in the abode of your breast the spirit of bargaining, nor the desire of gifts, lest Jesus, entering in anger and…” — the author cites it
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Jerome
“Those who say “the temple of the Lord, the temple of the Lord,” should give ear to the words of the apostle: “ye are the temple of the Lord,” and the Holy Ghost “dwelleth in you.”” — editor's note: 2 Cor. vi. 16.
Read the whole comment“…darkness? and what concord hath Christ with Belial? or what part hath he that believeth with an infidel? and what agreement hath the temple of God with idols?”” — editor's note: 2 Cor. vi. 14–16.
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John Cassian
“In a word we believe that, I do not say apostles and martyrs, but, all the saints and servants of God have within them the Spirit of God, according to this: “Ye are the temple of the living God: as God said, For I will dwell in them.”” — editor's note: 2 Cor. vi. 16.
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Gregory of Nazianzus
“Who is the man who has never beheld, as our duty is to behold it, the fair beauty of the Lord, nor has visited His temple, or rather, become the temple of God, and the habitation of Christ in the Spirit?” — editor's note: 2 Cor. vi. 16.
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Clement of Alexandria
““Quæ est enim participatio justitiæ et injustitiæ? aut quæ luci cure tenebris societas? quæ est autem conventio Christo cum Belial? quæ pars est fideli cum infideli? quæ est autem consensio templo Dei cum idolis?” — editor's note: 2 Cor. vi. 14, 15, 16.
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Cross-references · 22
Cross-reference given by the World English Bible's translators.
Cross-reference given by the World English Bible's translators.
Cross-reference given by the World English Bible's translators.
Cited together in On Modesty Chapter 15.
Cited together in Catechism §797.
Cited together in On the Apparel of Women I.1.
Cited together in Against the Arians I.4.
Cited together in Jerome on Matthew 21:10–16 (5) (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Jerome on Matthew 21:10–16 (5) (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Jerome on Matthew 21:10–16 (5) (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Jerome on Matthew 21:10–16 (5) (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in On the Apparel of Women I.1.
Cited together in On the Apparel of Women I.1.
Cited together in On the Apparel of Women I.1.
Cited together in On the Apparel of Women I.1.
Cited together in Against Celsus VIII.18.
Cited together in On the Apparel of Women I.1.
Cited together in Catechism §797 and 2 other places.
Cited together in Catechism §797.
Cited together in On the Apparel of Women I.1.
Cited together in A Treatise on the Soul Chapter 53.
Cited together in On Modesty Chapter 15.