18 “But will God indeed dwell with man on the earth? Behold, (A)heaven and the highest heaven cannot contain you, how much less this house that I have built!

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The Humble and Contrite in Spirit

66 (A)Thus says the Lord:
(B)“Heaven is my throne,
    and the earth is my footstool;
what is the house that you would build for me,
    and what is the place of my rest?

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(A)But who is able to build him a house, since (B)heaven, even highest heaven, cannot contain him? Who am I to build a house for him, except as a place to make offerings before him?

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(A)Where shall I go from your Spirit?
    Or where (B)shall I flee from your presence?
(C)If I ascend to heaven, you are there!
    (D)If I make my bed in Sheol, you are there!
If I take the wings of the morning
    and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea,
10 even there your hand shall (E)lead me,
    and your right hand shall hold me.

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I know a man (A)in Christ who fourteen years ago was (B)caught up to (C)the third heaven—whether in the body or out of the body I do not know, (D)God knows.

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24 (A)The God who made the world and everything in it, being (B)Lord of heaven and earth, (C)does not live in temples made by man,[a]

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Footnotes

  1. Acts 17:24 Greek made by hands

48 (A)Yet the Most High does not dwell (B)in houses made by hands, as the prophet says,

49 (C)“‘Heaven is my throne,
    (D)and the earth is my footstool.
What kind of house will you build for me, says the Lord,
    or what is the place of my rest?

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(A)Who is like the Lord our God,
    who is seated on high,
who (B)looks far down
    on the heavens and the earth?

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15 Now, therefore, do not let Hezekiah deceive you or mislead you in this fashion, and do not believe him, for no god of any nation or kingdom has been able to deliver his people from my hand or from the hand of my fathers. How much less will your God deliver you out of my hand!’”

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11 If you then, (A)who are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will (B)your Father who is in heaven give good things to those who ask him!

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15 For thus says (A)the One who is high and lifted up,
    who inhabits eternity, whose name is (B)Holy:
(C)“I dwell in the high and holy place,
    and also (D)with him who is of a contrite and lowly spirit,
(E)to revive the spirit of the lowly,
    and to revive the heart of the contrite.

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18 (A)You ascended on high,
    (B)leading a host of captives in your train
    and (C)receiving gifts among men,
even among (D)the rebellious, (E)that the Lord God may dwell there.

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How then can man be (A)in the right before God?
    How can he who is (B)born of woman be (C)pure?
Behold, even the moon is not bright,
    and the stars are not pure in his eyes;
(D)how much less man, who is (E)a maggot,
    and (F)the son of man, who is a worm!”

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14 (A)How then can I (B)answer him,
    choosing my words with him?

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19 how much more those who dwell in houses of (A)clay,
    whose foundation is in (B)the dust,
    who are crushed like[a] (C)the moth.

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Footnotes

  1. Job 4:19 Or before

27 “But will God indeed dwell on the earth? Behold, (A)heaven and the highest heaven cannot contain you; how much less this house that I have built!

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45 (A)I will dwell among the people of Israel and will be their God. 46 And they shall know that (B)I am the Lord their God, who brought them out of the land of Egypt that I might dwell among them. I am the Lord their God.

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24 (A)Can a man hide himself in secret places so that I cannot see him? declares the Lord. (B)Do I not fill heaven and earth? declares the Lord.

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