1 Kings 8:27

New Century Version

“But, God, can you really live here on the earth? The sky and the highest place in heaven cannot contain you. Surely this house which I have built cannot contain you.

Cross References

2 Chronicles 2:5

“The temple I build will be great, because our God is greater than all gods.

2 Chronicles 2:6

But no one can really build a house for our God. Not even the highest of heavens can hold him. How then can I build a temple for him except as a place to burn sacrifices to him?

2 Chronicles 6:18

“But, God, can you really live here on the earth with people? The sky and the highest place in heaven cannot contain you. Surely this house which I have built cannot contain you.

Psalm 113:4

The Lord is supreme over all the nations; his glory reaches to the skies.

Psalm 148:4

Praise him, highest heavens and you waters above the sky.

Psalm 68:33

Sing to the one who rides through the skies, which are from long ago. He speaks with a thundering voice.

Isaiah 66:1

This is what the Lord says: “Heaven is my throne, and the earth is my footstool. So do you think you can build a house for me? Do I need a place to rest?

Jeremiah 23:24

“No one can hide where I cannot see him,” says the Lord. “I fill all of heaven and earth,” says the Lord.

John 1:14

The Word became a human and lived among us. We saw his glory—the glory that belongs to the only Son of the Father—and he was full of grace and truth.

Acts 17:24

The God who made the whole world and everything in it is the Lord of the land and the sky. He does not live in temples built by human hands.

2 Corinthians 12:2

I know a man in Christ who was taken up to the third heaven fourteen years ago. I do not know whether the man was in his body or out of his body, but God knows.

2 Corinthians 6:16

The temple of God cannot have any agreement with idols, and we are the temple of the living God. As God said: “I will live with them and walk with them. And I will be their God, and they will be my people.”

Deuteronomy 10:14

The Lord owns the world and everything in it—the heavens, even the highest heavens, are his.

1 John 3:1

The Father has loved us so much that we are called children of God. And we really are his children. The reason the people in the world do not know us is that they have not known him.