The house that I am about to build will be great, for our God is greater than other gods.
1 Kings 8:27 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021 “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! More versionsKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 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 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) 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 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 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? Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Is it then to be thought that God should indeed dwell upon earth? For if heaven, and the heavens of heavens cannot contain thee, how much less this house which I have built? |
The house that I am about to build will be great, for our God is greater than other gods.
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?
“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!
O rider in the heavens, the ancient heavens; listen, he sends out his voice, his mighty voice.
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?
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.
And the Word became flesh and lived among us, and we have seen his glory, the glory as of a father’s only son, full of grace and truth.
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,
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.
What agreement has the temple of God with idols? For we are the temple of the living God, as God said, “I will live in them and walk among them, and I will be their God, and they shall be my people.
Although heaven and the heaven of heavens belong to the Lord your God, the earth with all that is in it,
See what love the Father has given us, that we should be called children of God, and that is what we are. The reason the world does not know us is that it did not know him.