2 Chronicles 6:18
New Living Translation
18 “But will God really live on earth among people? Why, even the highest heavens cannot contain you. How much less this Temple I have built!
Isaiah 66:1
New Living Translation
66 This is what the Lord says:
“Heaven is my throne,
and the earth is my footstool.
Could you build me a temple as good as that?
Could you build me such a resting place?
2 Chronicles 2:6
New Living Translation
6 But who can really build him a worthy home? Not even the highest heavens can contain him! So who am I to consider building a Temple for him, except as a place to burn sacrifices to him?
Psalm 139:7-10
New Living Translation
7 I can never escape from your Spirit!
I can never get away from your presence!
8 If I go up to heaven, you are there;
if I go down to the grave,[a] you are there.
9 If I ride the wings of the morning,
if I dwell by the farthest oceans,
10 even there your hand will guide me,
and your strength will support me.
Footnotes
- 139:8 Hebrew to Sheol.
2 Corinthians 12:2
New Living Translation
2 I[a] was caught up to the third heaven fourteen years ago. Whether I was in my body or out of my body, I don’t know—only God knows.
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- 12:2 Greek I know a man in Christ who.
Acts 17:24
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24 “He is the God who made the world and everything in it. Since he is Lord of heaven and earth, he doesn’t live in man-made temples,
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Acts 7:48-49
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48 However, the Most High doesn’t live in temples made by human hands. As the prophet says,
49 ‘Heaven is my throne,
and the earth is my footstool.
Could you build me a temple as good as that?’
asks the Lord.
‘Could you build me such a resting place?
Psalm 113:5-6
New Living Translation
5 Who can be compared with the Lord our God,
who is enthroned on high?
6 He stoops to look down
on heaven and on earth.
2 Chronicles 32:15
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15 Don’t let Hezekiah deceive you! Don’t let him fool you like this! I say it again—no god of any nation or kingdom has ever yet been able to rescue his people from me or my ancestors. How much less will your God rescue you from my power!”
Matthew 7:11
New Living Translation
11 So if you sinful people know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your heavenly Father give good gifts to those who ask him.
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Isaiah 57:15
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15 The high and lofty one who lives in eternity,
the Holy One, says this:
“I live in the high and holy place
with those whose spirits are contrite and humble.
I restore the crushed spirit of the humble
and revive the courage of those with repentant hearts.
Psalm 68:18
New Living Translation
18 When you ascended to the heights,
you led a crowd of captives.
You received gifts from the people,
even from those who rebelled against you.
Now the Lord God will live among us there.
Job 25:4-6
New Living Translation
4 How can a mortal be innocent before God?
Can anyone born of a woman be pure?
5 God is more glorious than the moon;
he shines brighter than the stars.
6 In comparison, people are maggots;
we mortals are mere worms.”
Job 9:14
New Living Translation
14 “So who am I, that I should try to answer God
or even reason with him?
Job 4:19
New Living Translation
19 how much less will he trust people made of clay!
They are made of dust, crushed as easily as a moth.
1 Kings 8:27
New Living Translation
27 “But will God really live on earth? Why, even the highest heavens cannot contain you. How much less this Temple I have built!
Exodus 29:45-46
New Living Translation
45 Then I will live among the people of Israel and be their God, 46 and they will know that I am the Lord their God. I am the one who brought them out of the land of Egypt so that I could live among them. I am the Lord their God.
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Jeremiah 23:24
New Living Translation
24 Can anyone hide from me in a secret place?
Am I not everywhere in all the heavens and earth?”
says the Lord.
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