2 Chronicles 6:18

Catholic Public Domain Version

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?

Cross References

1 Kings 8:27

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?

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 32:15

Therefore, let not Hezekiah deceive or delude you with vain persuasion. And you should not believe him. For if no god out of all the nations and kingdoms was able to free his people from my hand, and from the hand of my fathers, consequently neither will your God be able to rescue you from my hand."

2 Chronicles 6:17

And now, O Lord God of Israel, let your word be confirmed that you spoke to your servant David.

2 Chronicles 6:19

But it has been done for this only, so that you may look with favor upon the prayer of your servant, and on his supplication, O Lord my God, and so that you may hear the prayers which your servant pours out before you,

Job 4:19

How much more will those who live in houses of clay, which have an earthly foundation, be consumed like the moth?

Job 9:14

what am I then, that I should answer him and exchange words with him?

Psalm 68:18

And do not turn your face away from your servant, for I am in trouble: heed me quickly.

Isaiah 57:15

For this is said by the Most High, the Sublime One, who dwells in eternity. And his name is Holy, for he dwells in the exalted and holy place, and he acts with a restrained and humble spirit, to revive the spirit of the humble, and to revive the heart of the contrite.

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?

Matthew 12:6

But I say to you, that something greater than the temple is here.

Matthew 7:11

Therefore, if you, though you are evil, know how to give good gifts to your sons, how much more will your Father, who is in heaven, give good things to those who ask him?

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.