Ephesians 3:17
Good News Translation
and I pray that Christ will make his home in your hearts through faith. I pray that you may have your roots and foundation in love,

New Revised Standard Version
and that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith, as you are being rooted and grounded in love.

Contemporary English Version
and that Christ will live in your hearts because of your faith. Stand firm and be deeply rooted in his love.

New American Bible
and that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith; that you, rooted and grounded in love,

Douay-Rheims Bible
That Christ may dwell by faith in your hearts: that, being rooted and founded in charity,

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That Christ may dwell by faith in your hearts: that, being rooted and founded in charity,

Christ.

Ephesians 2:21 In whom all the building, being framed together, groweth up into an holy temple in the Lord.

Isaiah 57:15 For thus saith the High and the Eminent that inhabiteth eternity: and his name is Holy, who dwelleth in the high and holy place, and with a contrite and humble spirit, to revive the spirit of the humble, and to revive the heart of the contrite.

John 6:56 He that eateth my flesh and drinketh my blood abideth in me: and I in him.

John 14:17,23 The spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it seeth him not, nor knoweth him. But you shall know him; because he shall abide with you and shall be in you. . . .

John 17:23 I in them, and thou in me: that they may be made perfect in one: and the world may know that thou hast sent me and hast loved them, as thou hast also loved me.

Romans 8:9-11 But you are not in the flesh, but the spirit, if so be that the Spirit of God dwell in you. Now if any man have not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of his. . . .

2 Corinthians 6:16 And what agreement hath the temple of God with idols? For you are the temple of the living God: as God saith: I will dwell in them and walk among them. And I will be their God: and they shall be my people.

Galatians 2:20 And I live, now not I: but Christ liveth in me. And that I live now in the flesh: I live in the faith of the Son of God, who loved me and delivered himself for me.

Colossians 1:27 To whom God would make known the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles, which is Christ, in you the hope of glory.

1 John 4:4,16 You are of God, little children, and have overcome him. Because greater is he that is in you, than he that is in the world. . . .

Revelation 3:20 Behold, I stand at the gate and knock. If any man shall hear my voice and open to me the door, I will come in to him and will sup with him: and he with me.

being.

Matthew 13:6 And when the sun was up they were scorched: and because they had not root, they withered away.

Romans 5:5 And hope confoundeth not: because the charity of God is poured forth in our hearts, by the Holy Ghost who is given to us.

1 Corinthians 8:1 Now concerning those things that are sacrificed to idols: we know we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffeth up: but charity edifieth.

2 Corinthians 5:14,15 For the charity of Christ presseth us: judging this, that if one died for all, then all were dead. . . .

Galatians 5:6 For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision availeth any thing nor uncircumcision: but faith that worketh by Charity.

Colossians 1:23 If so ye continue in the faith, grounded and settled, and immoveable from the hope of the gospel which you have heard, which is preached in all the creation that is under heaven: whereof I Paul am made a minister.

Colossians 2:7 Rooted and built up in him and confirmed in the faith, as also you have learned: abounding in him in thanksgiving.

grounded.

Matthew 7:24,25 Every one therefore that heareth these my words, and doth them, shall be likened to a wise man that built his house upon a rock, . . .

Luke 6:48 He is like to a man building a house, who digged deep and laid the foundation upon a rock. And when a flood came, the stream beat vehemently upon that house: and it could not shake it: for it was founded on a rock.

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Context
Paul's Prayer for the Ephesians
16That he would grant you, according to the riches of his glory, to be strengthened by his Spirit with might unto the inward man: 17That Christ may dwell by faith in your hearts: that, being rooted and founded in charity, 18You may be able to comprehend, with all the saints, what is the breadth and length and height and depth,…
Cross References
John 14:23
Jesus answered and said to him: If any one love me, he will keep my word. And my Father will love him and we will come to him and will make our abode with him.

Romans 8:9
But you are not in the flesh, but the spirit, if so be that the Spirit of God dwell in you. Now if any man have not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of his.

Romans 8:10
And if Christ be in you, the body indeed is dead, because of sin: but the spirit liveth, because of justification.

1 Corinthians 3:6
I have planted, Apollo watered: but God gave the increase.

2 Corinthians 13:5
Try your own selves if you be in the faith: prove ye yourselves. Know you not your own selves, that Christ Jesus is in you, unless perhaps you be reprobates?

Ephesians 2:22
In whom you also are built together into an habitation of God in the Spirit.

Colossians 1:23
If so ye continue in the faith, grounded and settled, and immoveable from the hope of the gospel which you have heard, which is preached in all the creation that is under heaven: whereof I Paul am made a minister.

Colossians 2:7
Rooted and built up in him and confirmed in the faith, as also you have learned: abounding in him in thanksgiving.

Ephesians 3:16
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