Christ the only foundation; temple of God by his Spirit

“For no one can lay another foundation besides the one that lies there, which is Jesus Christ.” If we have been propped on Christ as on a foundation, and are built on him through faith, and he himself is the security of all, how would he not be truly God — the one in whom are all things, and toward whom is the faith of all? Not as one of our kind — for we have not served a creature — but as God by nature and in truth.

“Do you not know that you are God’s temple, and that God’s Spirit dwells in you? If anyone destroys God’s temple, God will destroy that person. For God’s temple is holy, and you are that temple.” If by receiving Christ’s Spirit we are called God’s temple, how is he not truly God, the one through whom we are temples of God?

“So do not judge anything before the time, until the Lord comes, who will also bring to light the hidden things of darkness and disclose the plans of hearts; and then praise will come to each from God.”

We expect our Lord Jesus Christ to come down from heaven in due times, and we shall all stand before him as he judges what is hidden and discloses the plans of hearts. And we are fully persuaded he will also praise the righteous; for to those standing on the right he will say: “Come, you blessed of my Father; inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world.” So when he says that, while Christ praises, praise comes to each from God, how is he not clearly God?

“Or do you not know that your bodies are a temple of the Holy Spirit within you, which you have from God, and you are not your own? For you were bought with a price; so glorify God in