Acts 7:48
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48 “However, (A)the Most High does not dwell in temples made with hands, as the prophet says:
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Isaiah 66:1-2
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True Worship and False
66 Thus says the Lord:
(A)“Heaven is My throne,
And earth is My footstool.
Where is the house that you will build Me?
And where is the place of My rest?
2 For all those things My hand has made,
And all those things exist,”
Says the Lord.
(B)“But on this one will I look:
(C)On him who is poor and of a contrite spirit,
And who trembles at My word.
Acts 17:24-25
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24 (A)God, who made the world and everything in it, since He is (B)Lord of heaven and earth, (C)does not dwell in temples made with hands. 25 Nor is He worshiped with men’s hands, as though He needed anything, since He (D)gives to all life, breath, and all things.
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1 Kings 8:27
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27 “But (A)will God indeed dwell on the earth? Behold, heaven and the (B)heaven of heavens cannot contain You. How much less this temple which I have built!
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2 Chronicles 2:5-6
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5 And the temple which I build will be great, for (A)our God is greater than all gods. 6 (B)But who is able to build Him a temple, since heaven and the heaven of heavens cannot contain Him? Who am I then, that I should build Him a temple, except to burn sacrifice before Him?
Psalm 91:9
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2 Chronicles 6:18
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18 “But will God indeed dwell with men on the earth? (A)Behold, heaven and the heaven of heavens cannot contain You. How much less this [a]temple which I have built!
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- 2 Chronicles 6:18 Lit. house
Daniel 4:17
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17 ‘This decision is by the decree of the watchers,
And the sentence by the word of the holy ones,
In order (A)that the living may know
(B)That the Most High rules in the kingdom of men,
(C)Gives it to whomever He will,
And sets over it the (D)lowest of men.’
Psalm 91:1
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Safety of Abiding in the Presence of God
91 He (A)who dwells in the secret place of the Most High
Shall abide (B)under the shadow of the Almighty.
Daniel 4:24-25
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24 this is the interpretation, O king, and this is the decree of the Most High, which has come upon my lord the king: 25 They shall (A)drive you from men, your dwelling shall be with the beasts of the field, and they shall make you (B)eat grass like oxen. They shall wet you with the dew of heaven, and seven [a]times shall pass over you, (C)till you know that the Most High rules in the kingdom of men, and (D)gives it to whomever He chooses.
Footnotes
- Daniel 4:25 Possibly years
Psalm 7:17
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17 I will praise the Lord according to His righteousness,
And will sing praise to the name of the Lord Most High.
Psalm 92:8
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8 (A)But You, Lord, are on high forevermore.
Daniel 4:34
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Nebuchadnezzar Praises God
34 And (A)at the end of the [a]time I, Nebuchadnezzar, lifted my eyes to heaven, and my understanding returned to me; and I blessed the Most High and praised and honored Him (B)who lives forever:
For His dominion is (C)an everlasting dominion,
And His kingdom is from generation to generation.
Footnotes
- Daniel 4:34 Lit. days
Deuteronomy 32:8
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8 When the Most High (A)divided their inheritance to the nations,
When He (B)separated the sons of Adam,
He set the boundaries of the peoples
According to the number of the [a]children of Israel.
Footnotes
- Deuteronomy 32:8 LXX, DSS angels of God; Symmachus, Lat. sons of God
Psalm 46:4
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4 There is a (A)river whose streams shall make glad the (B)city of God,
The holy place of the [a]tabernacle of the Most High.
Footnotes
- Psalm 46:4 dwelling places
Hosea 7:16
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16 They return, but not [a]to the Most High;
(A)They are like a treacherous bow.
Their princes shall fall by the sword
For the (B)cursings of their tongue.
This shall be their derision (C)in the land of Egypt.
Footnotes
- Hosea 7:16 Or upward
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