1 Kings 8:27

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?

Cross References

2 Chronicles 2:5

For the house that I desire to build is great. For our God is great, above all gods.

2 Chronicles 2:6

So then, who will be able prevail, so that he may build a worthy house for him? If heaven and the heavens of heavens cannot contain him, what am I that I would be able to build a house to him? But let it be for this only, so that incense may be burned before him.

2 Chronicles 6:18

How then is it to be believe that God would dwell with men upon the earth? If heaven and the heavens of the heavens do not contain you, how much less this house that I have built?

Psalm 113:4

The mountains exulted like rams, and the hills like lambs among the sheep.

Psalm 148:4

Praise him, heavens of the heavens. And let all the waters that are above the heavens

Psalm 68:33

Let the poor see and rejoice. Seek God, and your soul will live.

Isaiah 66:1

Thus says the Lord: Heaven is my throne, and the earth is my footstool. What is this house that you would build for me? And what is this place of my rest?

Jeremiah 23:24

If a man is hidden in concealed places, do I not see him, says the Lord? Do I not fill up heaven and earth, says the Lord?

John 1:14

And the Word became flesh, and he lived among us, and we saw his glory, glory like that of an only-begotten son from the Father, full of grace and truth.

Acts 17:24

the God who made the world and all that is in it, the One who is the Lord of heaven and earth, who does not live in temples made with hands.

2 Corinthians 12:2

I know a man in Christ, who, more than fourteen years ago (whether in the body, I do not know, or out of the body, I do not know: God knows), was enraptured to the third heaven.

2 Corinthians 6:16

And what consensus does the temple of God have with idols? For you are the temple of the living God, just as God says: "I will dwell with them, and I will walk among them. And I will be their God, and they shall be my people.

Deuteronomy 10:14

Lo, heaven belongs to the Lord your God, and the heaven of heaven, and the earth, and all the things that are within these.

1 John 3:1

See what kind of love the Father has given to us, that we would be called, and would become, the sons of God. Because of this, the world does not know us, for it did not know him.