2 Corinthians 6:16

New Century Version

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.”

Cross References

1 Kings 18:21

Elijah approached the people and said, “How long will you not decide between two choices? If the Lord is the true God, follow him, but if Baal is the true God, follow him!” But the people said nothing.

Psalm 90:1

Lord, you have been our home since the beginning.

Exodus 20:3

“You must not have any other gods except me.

Exodus 23:13

“Be sure to do all that I have said to you. You must not even say the names of other gods; those names must not come out of your mouth.

Exodus 25:8

“The people must build a holy place for me so that I can live among them.

Exodus 29:45

I will live with the people of Israel and be their God.

Exodus 34:14

Don’t worship any other god, because I, the Lord, the Jealous One, am a jealous God.

Jeremiah 24:7

I will make them want to know me, that I am the Lord. They will be my people, and I will be their God, because they will return to me with their whole hearts.

Jeremiah 31:1

The Lord says, “At that time I will be God of all Israel’s family groups, and they will be my people.”

Jeremiah 31:33

“This is the agreement I will make with the people of Israel at that time,” says the Lord: “I will put my teachings in their minds and write them on their hearts. I will be their God, and they will be my people.

Jeremiah 32:38

The people of Israel and Judah will be my people, and I will be their God.

Ezekiel 11:20

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

Ezekiel 36:25

Then I will sprinkle clean water on you, and you will be clean. I will cleanse you from all your uncleanness and your idols.

Ezekiel 36:28

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

Ezekiel 43:7

The voice from the Temple said to me, “Human, this is my throne and the place where my feet rest. I will live here among the Israelites forever. The people of Israel will not make my holy name unclean again. Neither the people nor their kings will make it unclean with their sexual sins or with the dead bodies of their kings.

Ezekiel 43:9

Now let them stop their sexual sins and take the dead bodies of their kings far away from me. Then I will live among them forever.

Hosea 14:8

Israel, have nothing to do with idols. I, the Lord, am the one who answers your prayers and watches over you. I am like a green pine tree; your blessings come from me.”

Hosea 2:23

I will plant my people in the land, and I will show pity to the one I had called ‘not shown pity.’ I will say, ‘You are my people’ to those I had called ‘not my people.’ And they will say to me, ‘You are our God.’ ”

Leviticus 26:12

I will walk with you and be your God, and you will be my people.

Zephaniah 1:5

I will destroy those who worship the stars from the roofs, and those who worship and make promises by both the Lord and the god Molech,

Zechariah 13:9

The third that is left I will test with fire, purifying them like silver, testing them like gold. Then they will call on me, and I will answer them. I will say, ‘You are my people,’ and they will say, ‘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 good and loyal God.”

Matthew 16:16

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

Matthew 6:24

“No one can serve two masters. The person will hate one master and love the other, or will follow one master and refuse to follow the other. You cannot serve both God and worldly riches.

Luke 5:36

Jesus told them this story: “No one takes cloth off a new coat to cover a hole in an old coat. Otherwise, he ruins the new coat, and the cloth from the new coat will not be the same as the old cloth.

John 14:23

Jesus answered, “If people love me, they will obey my teaching. My Father will love them, and we will come 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

God raised Jesus from the dead, and if God’s Spirit is living in you, he will also give life to your bodies that die. God is the One who raised Christ from the dead, and he will give life through his Spirit that lives in you.

Romans 8:9

But you are not ruled by your sinful selves. You are ruled by the Spirit, if that Spirit of God really lives in you. But the person who does not have the Spirit of Christ does not belong to Christ.

Romans 9:26

“They were called, ‘You are not my people,’ but later they will be called ‘children of the living God.’ ”

1 Corinthians 10:21

You cannot drink the cup of the Lord and the cup of demons also. You cannot share in the Lord’s table and the table of demons.

1 Corinthians 6:19

You should know that your body is a temple for the Holy Spirit who is in you. You have received the Holy Spirit from God. So you do not belong to yourselves,

Ephesians 2:20

You are like a building that was built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets. Christ Jesus himself is the most important stone in that building,

Ephesians 2:22

And in Christ you, too, are being built together with the Jews into a place where God lives through the Spirit.

Ephesians 3:17

I pray that Christ will live in your hearts by faith and that your life will be strong in love and be built on love.

Deuteronomy 5:7

“You must not have any other gods except me.

1 Timothy 3:15

Then, even if I am delayed, you will know how to live in the family of God. That family is the church of the living God, the support and foundation of the truth.

2 Timothy 1:14

Protect the truth that you were given; protect it with the help of the Holy Spirit who lives in us.

Hebrews 3:6

But Christ is faithful as a Son over God’s house. And we are God’s house if we confidently maintain our hope.

Hebrews 8:10

This is the agreement I will make with the people of Israel at that time, says the Lord. I will put my teachings in their minds and write them on their hearts. I will be their God, and they will be my people.

James 4:5

Do you think the Scripture means nothing that says, “The Spirit that God made to live in us wants us for himself alone”?

1 Peter 2:5

You also are like living stones, so let yourselves be used to build a spiritual temple—to be holy priests who offer spiritual sacrifices to God. He will accept those sacrifices through Jesus Christ.

1 John 4:12

No one has ever seen God, but if we love each other, God lives in us, and his love is made perfect in us.

1 John 4:15

Whoever confesses that Jesus is the Son of God has God living inside, and that person lives in God.

Revelation 2:1

“Write this to the angel of the church in Ephesus: “The One who holds the seven stars in his right hand and walks among the seven golden lampstands says this:

Revelation 21:3

And I heard a loud voice from the throne, saying, “Now God’s presence is with people, and he will live with them, and they will be his people. God himself will be with them and will be their God.

Revelation 21:7

Those who win the victory will receive this, and I will be their God, and they will be my children.