2 Chronicles 6:18
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18 “But will God indeed dwell with mortals on earth? Even heaven and the highest heaven cannot contain you, much less this house that I have built!(A)
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Isaiah 66:1
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The Worship God Demands
66 Thus says the Lord:
Heaven is my throne,
and the earth is my footstool;
so what kind of house could you build for me,
what sort of place for me to rest?(A)
2 Chronicles 2:6
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6 But who is able to build him a house, since 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?(A)
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Psalm 139:7-10
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7 Where can I go from your spirit?
Or where can I flee from your presence?(A)
8 If I ascend to heaven, you are there;
if I make my bed in Sheol, you are there.(B)
9 If I take the wings of the morning
and settle at the farthest limits of the sea,
10 even there your hand shall lead me,
and your right hand shall hold me fast.(C)
2 Corinthians 12:2
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2 I know a person in Christ who fourteen years ago was caught up to the third heaven—whether in the body or out of the body I do not know; God knows.(A)
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Acts 17:24
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24 The God who made the world and everything in it, he who is Lord of heaven and earth, does not live in shrines made by human hands,(A)
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Acts 7:48-49
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48 Yet the Most High does not dwell in houses made with human hands;[a] as the prophet says,(A)
49 ‘Heaven is my throne,
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?(B)
Footnotes
- 7.48 Gk with hands
Psalm 113:5-6
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5 Who is like the Lord our God,
who is seated on high,(A)
6 who looks far down
on the heavens and the earth?(B)
2 Chronicles 32:15
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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 save his people from my hand or from the hand of my ancestors. How much less will your God save you out of my hand!”(A)
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Matthew 7:11
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11 If you, then, who are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father in heaven give good things to those who ask him!
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Isaiah 57:15
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15 For thus says the high and lofty one
who inhabits eternity, whose name is Holy:
I dwell in the high and holy place
and also with those who are contrite and humble in spirit,
to revive the spirit of the humble
and to revive the heart of the contrite.(A)
Psalm 68:18
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18 You ascended the high mount,
leading captives in your train
and receiving gifts from people,
even from those who rebel against the Lord God’s abiding there.(A)
Job 25:4-6
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4 How then can a mortal be righteous before God?
How can one born of woman be pure?(A)
5 If even the moon is not bright
and the stars are not pure in his sight,(B)
6 how much less a mortal, who is a maggot,
and a human being, who is a worm!”(C)
Job 9:14
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14 How then can I answer him,
choosing my words with him?
Job 4:19
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19 how much more those who live in houses of clay,
whose foundation is in the dust,
who are crushed like a moth.(A)
1 Kings 8:27
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27 “But will God indeed dwell on the earth? Even heaven and the highest heaven cannot contain you, much less this house that I have built!(A)
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Exodus 29:45-46
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45 I will dwell among the Israelites, and I will be their God.(A) 46 And they shall know that 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.(B)
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Jeremiah 23:24
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24 Who can hide in secret places so that I cannot see them? says the Lord. Do I not fill heaven and earth? says the Lord.(A)
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