7. READ: EPHESIANS 2:1-22
e. What are God's people being built together to become?
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).
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."