Answer: God's people are being built together to
become a dwelling in which God lives by His Spirit, (verse
22--see also verses 20-21).
MORE INFORMATION AND/OR OTHER SCRIPTURE REFERENCES:
John 14:23: "Jesus replied,
'If anyone loves Me, he will obey My teaching. My Father will
love him, and We will come to him and make Our home with
him.'"
1 Corinthians 3:9-11, 16-17: "For
we are God's fellow workers; you are God's field, God's
building. By the grace God has given me, I laid a foundation
as an expert builder, and someone else is building on it. But each
one should be careful how he builds. For no one can lay any
foundation other than the one already laid, which is Jesus
Christ...Don't you know that you yourselves are God's temple
and that God's Spirit lives in you? If anyone destroys God's
temple, God will destroy him; for God's temple is sacred, and you
are that temple."
1 Timothy 1:13-14: "What you heard
from me [Paul], keep as the pattern of sound teaching, with faith
and love in Christ Jesus. Guard the good deposit that was
entrusted to you--guard it with the help of the Holy Spirit
Who lives in us."
1 Peter 2:4-5, 9: "As you come to
Him, the living Stone--rejected by men but chosen by God and
precious to Him--you also, like living stones, are being built
into a spiritual house to be a holy priesthood, offering spiritual
sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ...But you
are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people
belonging to God, that you may declare the praises of Him Who
called you out of darkness into His wonderful light."
1 John 3:24: "Those who obey His
[Christ's] commands live in Him, and He in them. And this is
how we know that He lives in us: We know it by the Spirit He gave
us."
