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  • 2 Corinthians 6:16
    New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures
    • 16 And what agreement does God’s temple have with idols?+ For we are a temple of a living God;+ just as God said: “I will reside among them+ and walk among them, and I will be their God, and they will be my people.”+

  • 2 Corinthians 6:16
    The Kingdom Interlinear Translation of the Greek Scriptures
    • 16 τίς What δὲ but συνκατάθεσις putting down together ναῷ to divine habitation θεοῦ of God μετὰ with εἰδώλων; idols? ἡμεῖς We γὰρ for ναὸς divine habitation θεοῦ of God ἐσμὲν we are ζῶντος· of (one) living; καθὼς according as εἶπεν said ὁ the θεὸς God ὅτι that ᾿Ενοικήσω I shall indwell ἐν in αὐτοῖς them καὶ and ἐνπεριπατήσω, I shall walk among, καὶ and ἔσομαι I shall be αὐτῶν to them θεός, God, καὶ and αὐτοὶ they ἔσονταί will be μου of me λαός. people.

  • 2 Corinthians 6:16
    New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures—With References
    • 16 And what agreement does God’s temple* have with idols?+ For we are a temple+ of a living God; just as God said: “I shall reside among them+ and walk among [them], and I shall be their God, and they will be my people.”+

  • 2 Corinthians 6:16
    The Bible in Living English
    • 16 and what unity is there between a temple of God and idols? for we are a temple of the living God, as God said “I will live among them and walk among them, and will be their God and they shall be my people;

  • 2 Corinthians 6:16
    American Standard Version
    • 16 And what agreement hath a temple of God with idols? for we are a temple of the living God; even as God said, I will dwell in them, and walk in them; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people.

  • 2 Corinthians 6:16
    The Emphasized Bible
    • 16 And what agreement hath a shrine of God with idols? For we are [the] shrine of a God that liveth:—Even as God hath said—I will dwell in them and walk, And will be their God And they shall be my people.

  • 2 Corinthians 6:16
    King James Version
    • 16 And what agreement hath the temple of God with idols? for ye are the temple of the living God; as God hath said, I will dwell in them, and walk in them; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people.

  • 2 Corinthians
    Watch Tower Publications Index 1930-1985
    • 6:16 w72 719; kj 161, 275; w67 492; w65 749; w64 703; w63 53; w61 140, 145; w60 42, 112; w58 746; w57 531; w56 55; nh 190; w42 88; w31 378

  • 2 Corinthians
    Research Guide for Jehovah’s Witnesses—2019 Edition
    • 6:16

      The Watchtower,

      12/1/1972, p. 719

      8/15/1967, pp. 491-492

      12/15/1965, pp. 748-750

      11/15/1964, pp. 703-704

      1/15/1963, pp. 53-54

      3/1/1961, pp. 139-141, 144-146

      2/15/1960, pp. 112-113

      1/15/1960, pp. 41-43

      12/15/1958, pp. 745-747

      9/1/1957, pp. 530-531

      1/15/1956, pp. 54-56

      ‘Know Jehovah’, pp. 160-162, 274-276

  • 2 Corinthians Study Notes—Chapter 6
    New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures (Study Edition)
    • 6:16

      just as God said: By quoting from or alluding to several texts in the Hebrew Scriptures, Paul shows that God’s attitude toward spiritual cleanness has always been the same. Here in verse 16, Paul is referring to Le 26:11, 12 and Eze 37:27.

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