Mat 16:18, 1Cor 3:16, 6:19, 2Cor 6:16, Eph 2:21-22, 1Ti 3:15, Heb 3:2-3 | ESV | STEP | And I tell you , you are Peter , and on this rock I will build my church , and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it .

lCited from Lev. 26:12; See Ex. 29:45

m[Rev. 2:1; 21:3]

n Ex. 6:7; Jer. 31:33; Ezek. 11:20

o ch. 4:15, 16

pSee 1 Cor. 3:16, 17

q 1 Pet. 2:5

r[ch. 3:17; 2 Cor. 6:16; 1 Tim. 3:15]

t ver. 5

Matthew 16:18

18 And I tell you, ^ayou are Peter, and ^bon this rock ^{▼▼The Greek words for Peter and rock sound similar} I will build my church, and ^dthe gates of ^ehell ^{▼▼Greek the gates of Hades} shall not prevail against it.

1 Corinthians 3:16

16 ^gDo you not know that you ^{▼▼The Greek for you is plural in verses 16 and 17} are God’s temple and that God’s Spirit dwells in you?

1 Corinthians 6:19

19 Or ⁱdo you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit within you, whom you have from God? ^jYou are not your own,

2 Corinthians 6:16

16 What agreement has the temple of God with idols? For ^kwe are the temple of the living God; as God said,

^l“I will make my dwelling among them and ^mwalk among them,
and ⁿI will be their God,
and they shall be my people.

Ephesians 2:21-22

21 ^oin whom the whole structure, being joined together, grows into ^pa holy temple in the Lord. 22 In him ^qyou also are being built together ^rinto a dwelling place for God by ^{▼▼Or in} the Spirit.

1 Timothy 3:15

15 if I delay, you may know how one ought to behave in the household of God, which is the church of the living God, a pillar and buttress of the truth.

Hebrews 3:2-3

2 who was faithful to him who appointed him, ^tjust as Moses also was faithful in all God’s ^{▼▼Greek his; also verses 5, 6} house. 3 For Jesus has been counted worthy of more glory than Moses—as much more glory as the builder of a house has more honor than the house itself.