1 Kings 8:27 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

²⁷ But will God indeed live on earth? Even heaven, the highest heaven, cannot contain you, much less this temple I have built.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²⁷ But will God indeed dwell on the earth? behold, the heaven and heaven of heavens cannot contain thee; how much less this house that I have builded?

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²⁷ But will God indeed dwell with men on the earth? Behold, the heavens and heaven of heavens [in its most extended compass] cannot contain You; how much less this house that I have built?

American Standard Version (1901)

²⁷ But will God in very deed dwell on the earth? behold, heaven and the heaven of heavens cannot contain thee; how much less this house that I have builded!

Common English Bible

²⁷ But how could God possibly live on earth? If heaven, even the highest heaven, can’t contain you, how can this temple that I’ve built contain you?

Catholic Public Domain Version

²⁷ Is it, then, to be understood that truly God would dwell upon the earth? For if heaven, and the heavens of heavens, are not able to contain you, how much less this house, which I have built?

1 Kings 8:27 Cross References

2 Chronicles 2:5

The temple that I am building will be great, for our God is greater than any of the gods.

2 Chronicles 2:6

But who is able to build a temple for him, since even heaven and the highest heaven cannot contain him?  Who am I then that I should build a temple for him except as a place to burn incense before him?

2 Chronicles 6:18

But will God indeed live on earth with humans? Even heaven, the highest heaven, cannot contain you, much less this temple I have built.

Isaiah 66:1

This is what the Lord says: Heaven  is my throne, and earth is my footstool. Where could you possibly build a house for me? And where would my resting place be?

Jeremiah 23:24

Can a person hide in secret places where I cannot see him? ’   #– #the Lord’s declaration. ‘Do I not fill the heavens and the earth? ’   #– #the Lord’s declaration.

John 1:14

The Word  became flesh  and dwelt  among us. We observed his glory,  the glory as the one and only  Son  from the Father, full of grace and truth.

Acts 17:24

The God who made the world and everything in it   #– #he is Lord of heaven and earth   #– #does not live in shrines made by hands.

2 Corinthians 12:2

I know a man in Christ who was caught up  to the third heaven fourteen years ago. Whether he was in the body or out of the body, I don’t know; God knows.

2 Corinthians 6:16

And what agreement does the temple of God have with idols?  For we  are the temple of the living God, as God said: I will dwell and walk among them, and I will be their God, and they will be my people.   ,

Deuteronomy 10:14

The heavens, indeed the highest heavens, belong to the Lord your God, as does the earth and everything in it.

1 John 3:1

See what great love  the Father has given us that we should be called God’s children #– #and we are! The reason the world does not know us is that it didn’t know him.