2 Corinthians 6:16

Modern English Version

What agreement has the temple of God with idols? For you are the temple of the living God. As God has said: “I will live in them and walk in them. I will be their God, and they shall be My people.”

Cross References

1 Kings 18:21

Elijah came to all the people and said, “How long will you stay between two opinions? If the Lord is God, follow Him, but if Baal, then follow him.” And the people did not say a word.

Psalm 90:1

Lord, You have been our dwelling place in all generations.

Exodus 20:3

You shall have no other gods before Me.

Exodus 23:13

In all things that I have said to you, watch yourselves, and do not mention the name of other gods, nor let them be heard from your mouth.

Exodus 25:8

Let them make Me a sanctuary that I may dwell among them.

Exodus 29:45

I will dwell among the Israelites and will be their God.

Exodus 34:14

(for you shall not worship any other god, for the Lord, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God),

Jeremiah 24:7

I will give them a heart to know Me, that I am the Lord; and they will be My people, and I will be their God, for they will return to Me with their whole heart.

Jeremiah 31:1

At that time, says the Lord, I will be the God of all the families of Israel, and they shall be My people.

Jeremiah 31:33

But this shall be the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, says the Lord: I will put My law within them and write it in their hearts; and I will be their God, and they shall be My people.

Jeremiah 32:38

And they shall be My people, and I will be their God.

Ezekiel 11:20

that they may walk in My statutes, and keep My ordinances, and do them. And they shall be My people, and I will be their God.

Ezekiel 36:25

Then I will sprinkle clean water upon you, and you shall be clean. From all your filthiness and from all your idols, I will cleanse you.

Ezekiel 36:28

You will dwell in the land that I gave to your fathers. And you will be My people, and I will be your God.

Ezekiel 43:7

He said to me: Son of man, this is the place of My throne and the place of the soles of My feet, where I will dwell in the midst of the Israelites forever. And My holy name shall the house of Israel defile no more, nor they nor their kings by their harlotry, nor by the corpses of their kings when they die.

Ezekiel 43:9

Now let them put away their harlotry and the corpses of their kings far from Me, and I will dwell in their midst forever.

Hosea 14:8

O Ephraim, what have I to do with idols? It is I who answer and look after him. I am like a green fir tree; your fruit is found in Me.

Hosea 2:23

Then I will sow her for Myself in the earth. I will have mercy upon Lo-Ruhamah, and I will say to Lo-Ammi, “You are My people,” and they will say, “You are my God.”

Leviticus 26:12

I will walk among you, and I will be your God, and you shall be My people.

Zephaniah 1:5

and those who bow down on the roofs to the host of heaven; those who worship and swear oaths by the Lord and yet swear by Milcom;

Zechariah 13:9

And I will bring this one-third left into the fire, and will refine them as the refinement of silver, and will test them as the testing of gold. They will call on My name, and I will answer them. I will say, “They are My people”; and they will say, “The Lord is my God.”

Zechariah 8:8

And I will bring them, and they will reside in Jerusalem, and they will be for Me as a people, and I will be for them as God, with faithfulness and righteousness.

Matthew 16:16

Simon Peter replied, “You are the Christ, the Son of the living God.”

Matthew 6:24

“No one can serve two masters. For either he will hate the one and love the other, or else he will hold to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and money.

Luke 5:36

He told them a parable also: “No one sews a piece of a new material on an old one. Otherwise the new would tear, for the new piece does not match the old.

John 14:23

Jesus answered him, “If a man loves Me, he will keep My word. My Father will love him, and We will come to him, and make Our home with him.

John 6:56

Whoever eats My flesh and drinks My blood remains in Me, and I in him.

Romans 8:11

But if the Spirit of Him who raised Jesus from the dead lives in you, He who raised Christ from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through His Spirit that lives in you.

Romans 8:9

You, however, are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if indeed the Spirit of God lives in you. Now if any man does not have the Spirit of Christ, he does not belong to Him.

Romans 9:26

and, “In the place where it was said to them, ‘You are not My people,’ there they shall be called ‘sons of the living God.’ ”

1 Corinthians 10:21

You cannot drink the cup of the Lord and the cup of demons. You cannot be partakers of the Lord’s table and of the table of demons.

1 Corinthians 6:19

What? Do you not know that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit, who is in you, whom you have received from God, and that you are not your own?

Ephesians 2:20

having been built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ Himself being the chief cornerstone,

Ephesians 2:22

in whom you also are being built together into a dwelling place of God through the Spirit.

Ephesians 3:17

and that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith; that you, being rooted and grounded in love,

Deuteronomy 5:7

You shall have no other gods before Me.

1 Timothy 3:15

but if I am delayed, you might know how you ought to conduct yourself in the house of God, which is the church of the living God, the pillar and foundation of the truth.

2 Timothy 1:14

Guard the treasure that was committed to you through the Holy Spirit who lives in us.

Hebrews 3:6

But Christ is faithful over God’s house as a Son, whose house we are if we hold fast the confidence and the rejoicing of our hope firm to the end.

Hebrews 8:10

This is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, says the Lord: I will put My laws into their minds and write them on their hearts; and I will be their God, and they shall be My people.

James 4:5

Do you think that the Scripture says in vain, “He yearns jealously for the spirit that lives in us” ?

1 Peter 2:5

you also, as living stones, are being built up into a spiritual house as a holy priesthood to offer up spiritual sacrifices that are acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.

1 John 4:12

No one has seen God at any time. If we love one another, God dwells in us, and His love is perfected in us.

1 John 4:15

Whoever confesses that Jesus is the Son of God, God lives in him, and he in God.

Revelation 2:1

“To the angel of the church of Ephesus write: “He who holds the seven stars in His right hand, who walks in the midst of the seven golden candlesticks, says these things:

Revelation 21:3

And I heard a loud voice from heaven, saying, “Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men, and He will dwell with them. They shall be His people, and God Himself will be with them and be their God.

Revelation 21:7

He who overcomes shall inherit all things, and I will be his God and he shall be My son.