Matthew 23:21

God's Word

To swear an oath by the temple is to swear by it and by the one who lives there.

Cross References

Psalm 26:8

O Lord, I love the house where you live, the place where your glory dwells.

1 Kings 8:13

I certainly have built you a high temple, a home for you to live in permanently.”

2 Chronicles 6:2

But I have built you a high temple, a home for you to live in permanently.”

Colossians 2:9

All of God lives in Christ’s body,

Ephesians 2:22

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

2 Chronicles 7:2

The priests couldn’t go into the Lord’s temple because the Lord’s glory had filled the Lord’s temple.

1 Kings 8:27

“Does God really live on earth? If heaven itself, the highest heaven, cannot hold you, then how can this temple that I have built?

Matthew 23:20

To swear an oath by the altar is to swear by it and by everything on it.