2 Corinthians 6:16

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Can God’s temple contain false gods? Clearly, we are the temple of the living God. As God said, “I will live and walk among them. I will be their God, and they will be my people.”

Cross References

1 Kings 18:21

Elijah stood up in front of all the people and asked them, “How long will you try to have it both ways? If the Lord is God, follow him; if Baal is God, follow him.” The people didn’t say a word.

Psalm 90:1

O Lord, you have been our refuge throughout every generation.

Exodus 20:3

“Never have any other god.

Exodus 23:13

“Be careful ⌞to do⌟ everything I told you. “Never mention the names of other gods or let them be heard on your lips.

Exodus 25:8

“Then have them make a holy place for me, and I will live among them.

Exodus 29:45

“Then I will live among the Israelites and be their God.

Exodus 34:14

(Never worship any other god, because the Lord is a God who does not tolerate rivals. In fact, he is known for not tolerating rivals.)

Jeremiah 24:7

I will give them the desire to know that I am the Lord. They will be my people, and I will be their God, because they will wholeheartedly come back to me.

Jeremiah 31:1

“At that time,” declares the Lord, “I will be the God of all the families of Israel, and they will be my people.”

Jeremiah 31:33

“But this is the promise that I will make to Israel after those days,” declares the Lord: “I will put my teachings inside them, and I will write those teachings on their hearts. I will be their God, and they will be my people.

Jeremiah 32:38

They will be my people, and I will be their God.

Ezekiel 11:20

Then they will live by my laws and obey my rules. They will be my people, and I will be their God.

Ezekiel 36:25

I will sprinkle clean water on you and make you clean  instead of unclean. Then I will cleanse you from all your idols.

Ezekiel 36:28

Then you will live in the land that I gave your ancestors. You will be my people, and I will be your God.

Ezekiel 43:7

The voice said to me, “Son of man, this is the place where my throne is and the place where my feet rest. This is where I will live among the Israelites forever. Then the people of Israel and their kings will no longer dishonor my holy name by acting like prostitutes, nor will they dishonor it with the dead bodies of their kings.

Ezekiel 43:9

Now they must stop acting like prostitutes and take the dead bodies of their kings far away from me. Then I will live among them forever.

Hosea 14:8

“The people of Ephraim will have nothing more to do with idols. I will answer them and take care of them. I am like a growing pine tree. Their fruit comes from me.”

Hosea 2:23

I will plant my people in the land. Those who are not loved I will call my loved ones. Those who are not my people I will call my people. Then they will say, ‘You are our God!’ ”

Leviticus 26:12

So I will live among you and be your God, and you will be my people.

Zephaniah 1:5

I will remove those who worship all the stars in the sky on their rooftops and those who worship by swearing loyalty to the Lord while also swearing loyalty to the god Milcom.

Zechariah 13:9

I will bring this third ⌞of the people⌟ through the fire. I will refine them as silver is refined. I will test them as gold is tested. They will call on me, and I will answer them. I will say, ‘They are my people.’ They will reply, ‘The Lord is our God.’ ”

Zechariah 8:8

I will bring them back, and they will live in Jerusalem. They will be my people, and I will be their God, who is faithful and just.

Matthew 16:16

Simon Peter answered, “You are the Messiah, the Son of the living God!”

Matthew 6:24

“No one can serve two masters. He will hate the first master and love the second, or he will be devoted to the first and despise the second. You cannot serve God and wealth.

Luke 5:36

He also used these illustrations: “No one tears a piece of cloth from a new coat to patch an old coat. Otherwise, the new cloth will tear the old. Besides, the patch from the new will not match the old.

John 14:23

Jesus answered him, “Those who love me will do what I say. My Father will love them, and we will go to them and make our home with them.

John 6:56

Those who eat my flesh and drink my blood live in me, and I live in them.

Romans 8:11

Does the Spirit of the one who brought Jesus back to life live in you? Then the one who brought Christ back to life will also make your mortal bodies alive by his Spirit who lives in you.

Romans 8:9

But if God’s Spirit lives in you, you are under the control of your spiritual nature, not your corrupt nature. Whoever doesn’t have the Spirit of Christ doesn’t belong to him.

Romans 9:26

Wherever they were told, ‘You are not my people,’ they will be called children of the living God.”

1 Corinthians 10:21

You cannot drink the Lord’s cup and the cup of demons. You cannot participate at the table of the Lord and at the table of demons.

1 Corinthians 6:19

Don’t you know that your body is a temple that belongs to the Holy Spirit? The Holy Spirit, whom you received from God, lives in you. You don’t belong to yourselves.

Ephesians 2:20

You are built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets. Christ Jesus himself is the cornerstone.

Ephesians 2:22

Through him you, also, are being built in the Spirit together with others into a place where God lives.

Ephesians 3:17

Then Christ will live in you through faith. I also pray that love may be the ground into which you sink your roots and on which you have your foundation.

Deuteronomy 5:7

“Never have any other gods.

1 Timothy 3:15

in case I’m delayed. I want you to know how people who are members of God’s family must live. God’s family is the church of the living God, the pillar and foundation of the truth.

2 Timothy 1:14

With the help of the Holy Spirit who lives in us, protect the Good News that has been entrusted to you.

Hebrews 3:6

But Christ is a faithful son in charge of God’s household. We are his household if we continue to have courage and to be proud of the confidence we have.

Hebrews 8:10

But this is the promise that I will make to Israel after those days, says the Lord: I will put my teachings inside them, and I will write those teachings on their hearts. I will be their God, and they will be my people.

James 4:5

Do you think this passage means nothing? It says, “The Spirit that lives in us wants us to be his own.”

1 Peter 2:5

You come to him as living stones, a spiritual house that is being built into a holy priesthood. So offer spiritual sacrifices that God accepts through Jesus Christ.

1 John 4:12

No one has ever seen God. If we love each other, God lives in us, and his love is perfected in us.

1 John 4:15

God lives in those who declare that Jesus is the Son of God, and they live in God.

Revelation 2:1

“To the messenger of the church in Ephesus, write: The one who holds the seven stars in his right hand, the one who walks among the seven gold lamp stands, says:

Revelation 21:3

I heard a loud voice from the throne say, “God lives with humans! God will make his home with them, and they will be his people. God himself will be with them and be their God.

Revelation 21:7

Everyone who wins the victory will inherit these things. I will be their God, and they will be my children.