KING JAMES BIBLE · PCE
John 2:20–21
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John 2:20
20Then said the Jews, Forty and six years was this temple in building, and wilt thou rear it up in three days?
20Then said the Iewes, Fourty and six yeres was this Temple in building, and wilt thou reare it vp in three dayes?
John 2:21
21But he spake of the temple of his body.
21But he spake of the temple of his body.
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DEFINED WORDS
John 2:20
Spoke, declared, reported, commanded, or expressed in words.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
Members of the Jewish people; Hebrews or Israelites identified as Jews.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
The number equal to four times ten.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription)
The number following five and preceding seven.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
Periods of twelve months.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
A house or place dedicated to divine worship; also the side of the head.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
A structure made for habitation or use; also the act of constructing.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828
To will, choose, intend, or be disposed to; as an auxiliary, indicates future action.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
To raise, set up, erect, or build.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
The number following two and preceding four.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription)
DEFINED WORDS
John 2:21
However; introducing a contrast with what precedes.
Meaning drawn from: Skeat 1893 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
A house or place dedicated to divine worship; also the side of the head.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
A physical body; a corpse; or an organized whole composed of members, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription)
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Open the full verse study19What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own?
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Open the full verse study16Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you?
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Open the full verse study19For it pleased the Father that in him should all fulness dwell;
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Open the full verse study9For in him dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead bodily.
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Open the full verse study20And are built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ himself being the chief corner stone;
21In whom all the building fitly framed together groweth unto an holy temple in the Lord:
22In whom ye also are builded together for an habitation of God through the Spirit.
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Open the full verse study2A minister of the sanctuary, and of the true tabernacle, which the Lord pitched, and not man.
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Open the full verse study16And 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.
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Open the full verse study14And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth.
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Open the full verse study4To whom coming, as unto a living stone, disallowed indeed of men, but chosen of God, and precious,
5Ye also, as lively stones, are built up a spiritual house, an holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God by Jesus Christ.
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