<p>2:22 <i>In whom you also are being built up together for a dwelling place of God in the Spirit</i>- The repeated &quot;in whom&quot; (:21) again suggests that &quot;in Christ&quot; is a terms which often has reference to our collective experience with others who are in His body. As noted on :21, the metaphor emphasizes how we are built &quot;together&quot;. The Spirit of God dwells in the assembled temple, and not just in isolated individuals who want nothing to do with the building as a whole. The churches to whom Paul was writing were extremely immature; yet he never once advocates separating from them. Nor does the Lord in His letters to the churches. And it is the perceived immaturity of others in the church which is the main reason why believers push off into isolation. Such impatience and quitting of the building site, as it were, should not be glorified as 'standing up for the Truth'. It is nothing of the sort- just being cranky and selfish, and failing to perceive God's work through the Spirit. God is now dwelling within us, individually and collectively, by the Spirit; but this is in anticipation of how He shall do so eternally. To be without the Spirit now means we shall not be eternally inhabited by it.</p>