1 Corinthians 10:20-21
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20 No, I mean that what they sacrifice, [they sacrifice] to demons,[a] not to God, and I do not want you to become participants with demons.(A) 21 You cannot drink the cup of the Lord and also the cup of demons. You cannot partake of the table of the Lord and of the table of demons.(B)
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- 10:20 To demons: although Jews denied divinity to pagan gods, they often believed that there was some nondivine reality behind the idols, such as the dead, or angels, or demons. The explanation Paul offers in 1 Cor 10:20 is drawn from Dt 32:17: the power behind the idols, with which the pagans commune, consists of demonic powers hostile to God.
1 Corinthians 3:16-17
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16 Do you not know that you are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwells in you?(A) 17 If anyone destroys God’s temple, God will destroy that person; for the temple of God, which you are, is holy.[a]
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1 Corinthians 6:19
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19 Do you not know that your body is a temple[a] of the holy Spirit within you, whom you have from God, and that you are not your own?(A)
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- 6:19–20 Paul’s vision becomes trinitarian. A temple: sacred by reason of God’s gift, his indwelling Spirit. Not your own: but “for the Lord,” who acquires ownership by the act of redemption. Glorify God in your body: the argument concludes with a positive imperative to supplement the negative “avoid immorality” of 1 Cor 6:18. Far from being a terrain that is morally indifferent, the area of sexuality is one in which our relationship with God (and his Christ and his Spirit) is very intimately expressed: he is either highly glorified or deeply offended.
Exodus 25:8
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8 They are to make a sanctuary for me, that I may dwell in their midst.(A)
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Exodus 29:45
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45 I will dwell in the midst of the Israelites and will be their God.
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Leviticus 26:12
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12 Ever present in your midst, I will be your God, and you will be my people;
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Jeremiah 31:1
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Chapter 31
Good News of the Return
1 At that time—oracle of the Lord—
I will be the God of all the families of Israel,
and they shall be my people.(A)
Jeremiah 32:38
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38 They shall be my people, and I will be their God.(A)
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Ezekiel 37:27
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27 My dwelling shall be with them; I will be their God, and they will be my people.(A)
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