1 Kings 8:27
Hebrew Text— 1 Kings 8:27But will God in very deed dwell on the earth? Behold, heaven and the heaven of heavens can’t contain you; how much less this house that I have built!
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I will dwell among the children of Israel, and will be their God.
Then they will be my people, and I will be their God.
I will walk among you, and will be your God, and you will be my people.
Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father, except through me.
“For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel. After those days,” says the Lord; “I will put my laws into their mind, I will also write them on their heart. I will be their God, and they will be my people.
that they may walk in my statutes, and keep my ordinances, and do them. They will be my people, and I will be their God.
“But this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days,” says Yahweh: “I will put my law in their inward parts, and I will write it in their heart. I will be their God, and they shall be my people.
I will sow her to me in the earth; and I will have mercy on her who had not obtained mercy; and I will tell those who were not my people, ‘You are my people;’ and they will say, ‘My God!’ ”
Without controversy, the mystery of godliness is great: God was revealed in the flesh, justified in the spirit, seen by angels, preached among the nations, believed on in the world, and received up in glory.
He who overcomes, I will give him these things. I will be his God, and he will be my son.
I will give them a heart to know me, that I am Yahweh. They will be my people, and I will be their God; for they will return to me with their whole heart.
and I will bring them, and they will dwell within Jerusalem; and they will be my people, and I will be their God, in truth and in righteousness.”
But when the fullness of the time came, God sent out his Son, born to a woman, born under the law,
But as many as received him, to them he gave the right to become God’s children, to those who believe in his name:
I will bring the third part into the fire, and will refine them as silver is refined, and will test them like gold is tested. They will call on my name, and I will hear them. I will say, ‘It is my people;’ and they will say, ‘Yahweh is my God.’ ”
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
For you are all children of God, through faith in Christ Jesus.
You will dwell in the land that I gave to your fathers. You will be my people, and I will be your God.
By this God’s love was revealed in us, that God has sent his one and only Son into the world that we might live through him.
He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation.
Yahweh’s glory shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see it together; for the mouth of Yahweh has spoken it.”
But if the Spirit of him who raised up Jesus from the dead dwells in you, he who raised up Christ Jesus from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through his Spirit who dwells in you.
For in him all the fullness of the Deity dwells bodily,
Therefore the Lord himself will give you a sign. Behold, the virgin will conceive, and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel.
“It will be that in the place where it was said to them, ‘You are not my people,’ there they will be called ‘children of the living God.’ ”
Don’t you know that you are a temple of God, and that God’s Spirit lives in you?
I will be to you a Father. You will be to me sons and daughters,’ says the Lord Almighty.”
that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith, to the end that you, being rooted and grounded in love,
Let them make me a sanctuary, that I may dwell among them.
I will tell of the decree: Yahweh said to me, “You are my son. Today I have become your father.
For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life.
I am the living bread which came down out of heaven. If anyone eats of this bread, he will live forever. Yes, the bread which I will give for the life of the world is my flesh.”
He who eats my flesh and drinks my blood lives in me, and I in him.
I in them, and you in me, that they may be perfected into one; that the world may know that you sent me and loved them, even as you loved me.
Righteous Father, the world hasn’t known you, but I knew you; and these knew that you sent me.
But we all, with unveiled face seeing the glory of the Lord as in a mirror, are transformed into the same image from glory to glory, even as from the Lord, the Spirit.
has at the end of these days spoken to us by his Son, whom he appointed heir of all things, through whom also he made the worlds.
His Son is the radiance of his glory, the very image of his substance, and upholding all things by the word of his power, who, when he had by himself purified us of our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high,
but Christ is faithful as a Son over his house. We are his house, if we hold fast our confidence and the glorying of our hope firm to the end.
Whoever confesses that Jesus is the Son of God, God remains in him, and he in God.
In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.
God made the expanse, and divided the waters which were under the expanse from the waters which were above the expanse; and it was so.
They heard Yahweh God’s voice walking in the garden in the cool of the day, and the man and his wife hid themselves from the presence of Yahweh God among the trees of the garden.
for you shall worship no other god; for Yahweh, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God.
Jesus said to him, “Have I been with you such a long time, and do you not know me, Philip? He who has seen me has seen the Father. How do you say, ‘Show us the Father?’
concerning his Son, who was born of the offspring of David according to the flesh,
But God commends his own love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.
Or don’t you know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have from God? You are not your own,
The first man is of the earth, made of dust. The second man is the Lord from heaven.
but emptied himself, taking the form of a servant, being made in the likeness of men.
Since then the children have shared in flesh and blood, he also himself in the same way partook of the same, that through death he might bring to nothing him who had the power of death, that is, the devil,
Therefore when he comes into the world, he says, “You didn’t desire sacrifice and offering, but you prepared a body for me.
Or do you think that the Scripture says in vain, “The Spirit who lives in us yearns jealously”?
He is clothed in a garment sprinkled with blood. His name is called “The Word of God.”
“Be careful to do all things that I have said to you; and don’t invoke the name of other gods or even let them be heard out of your mouth.
Yahweh says, “Heaven is my throne, and the earth is my footstool. What kind of house will you build to me? Where will I rest?
Can anyone hide himself in secret places so that I can’t see him?” says Yahweh. “Don’t I fill heaven and earth?” says Yahweh.
“Ah Lord Yahweh! Behold, you have made the heavens and the earth by your great power and by your outstretched arm. There is nothing too hard for you.
He said to me, “Son of man, this is the place of my throne, and the place of the soles of my feet, where I will dwell among the children of Israel forever. The house of Israel will no more defile my holy name, neither they, nor their kings, by their prostitution, and by the dead bodies of their kings in their high places;
Now let them put away their prostitution, and the dead bodies of their kings, far from me. Then I will dwell among them forever.
At that time, Jesus answered, “I thank you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that you hid these things from the wise and understanding, and revealed them to infants.
Call no man on the earth your father, for one is your Father, he who is in heaven.
For what the law couldn’t do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God did, sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and for sin, he condemned sin in the flesh;
having predestined us for adoption as children through Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good pleasure of his desire,
That good thing which was committed to you, guard through the Holy Spirit who dwells in us.
For we didn’t follow cunningly devised fables when we made known to you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, but we were eyewitnesses of his majesty.
No one has seen God at any time. If we love one another, God remains in us, and his love has been perfected in us.
We have seen and testify that the Father has sent the Son as the Savior of the world.
But who is able to build him a house, since heaven and the heaven of heavens can’t contain him? Who am I then, that I should build him a house, except just to burn incense before him?
For he has looked down from the height of his sanctuary. From heaven, Yahweh saw the earth;
Praise him, you heavens of heavens, you waters that are above the heavens.
However, the Most High doesn’t dwell in temples made with hands, as the prophet says,
Look down from your holy habitation, from heaven, and bless your people Israel, and the ground which you have given us, as you swore to our fathers, a land flowing with milk and honey.”
Behold, God is great, and we don’t know him. The number of his years is unsearchable.
The God who made the world and all things in it, he, being Lord of heaven and earth, doesn’t dwell in temples made with hands.
Yah is my strength and song. He has become my salvation. This is my God, and I will praise him; my father’s God, and I will exalt him.
Behold, to Yahweh your God belongs heaven, the heaven of heavens, and the earth, with all that is therein.
But to the place which Yahweh your God shall choose out of all your tribes, to put his name there, you shall seek his habitation, and you shall come there.
“But will God indeed dwell with men on the earth? Behold, heaven and the heaven of heavens can’t contain you; how much less this house which I have built!
“Cyrus king of Persia says, ‘Yahweh, the God of heaven, has given me all the kingdoms of the earth; and he has commanded me to build him a house in Jerusalem, which is in Judah.
Then the Levites, Jeshua, and Kadmiel, Bani, Hashabneiah, Sherebiah, Hodiah, Shebaniah, and Pethahiah, said, “Stand up and bless Yahweh your God from everlasting to everlasting! Blessed be your glorious name, which is exalted above all blessing and praise!
You are Yahweh, even you alone. You have made heaven, the heaven of heavens, with all their army, the earth and all things that are on it, the seas and all that is in them, and you preserve them all. The army of heaven worships you.
How much less will I answer him, And choose my words to argue with him?
Look to the skies, and see. See the skies, which are higher than you.
Yahweh, our Lord, how majestic is your name in all the earth! You have set your glory above the heavens!
From the place of his habitation he looks out on all the inhabitants of the earth,
To him who rides on the heaven of heavens, which are of old; behold, he utters his voice, a mighty voice.
Yahweh is high above all nations, his glory above the heavens.
until I find out a place for Yahweh, a dwelling for the Mighty One of Jacob.”
“This is my resting place forever. I will live here, for I have desired it.
Look down from heaven, and see from the habitation of your holiness and of your glory. Where are your zeal and your mighty acts? The yearning of your heart and your compassion is restrained toward me.
It is a rare thing that the king requires, and there is no other who can show it before the king, except the gods, whose dwelling is not with flesh.”
He who swears by the temple, swears by it, and by him who has been living in it.
The Word became flesh, and lived among us. We saw his glory, such glory as of the one and only Son of the Father, full of grace and truth.
that they should seek the Lord, if perhaps they might reach out for him and find him, though he is not far from each one of us.
What agreement does a temple of God have with idols? For you are a temple of the living God. Even as God said, “I will dwell in them and walk in them. I will be their God and they will be my people.”
I know a man in Christ, fourteen years ago (whether in the body, I don’t know, or whether out of the body, I don’t know; God knows), such a one caught up into the third heaven.
See how great a love the Father has given to us, that we should be called children of God! For this cause the world doesn’t know us, because it didn’t know him.
I heard a loud voice out of heaven saying, “Behold, God’s dwelling is with people, and he will dwell with them, and they will be his people, and God himself will be with them as their God.
I saw no temple in it, for the Lord God, the Almighty, and the Lamb, are its temple.