1 Kings 8:27

New International Reader's Version

“But will you really live on earth? After all, the heavens can’t hold you. In fact, even the highest heavens can’t hold you. So this temple I’ve built certainly can’t hold you!

Cross References

2 Chronicles 2:5

“The temple I’m going to build will be beautiful. That’s because our God is greater than all other gods.

2 Chronicles 2:6

So who is able to build a temple for him? After all, the heavens can’t hold him. In fact, not even the highest heavens can hold him. So who am I to build a temple for him? It will only be a place to burn sacrifices in front of him.

2 Chronicles 6:18

“But will God really live on earth with human beings? After all, the heavens can’t hold you. In fact, even the highest heavens can’t hold you. So this temple I’ve built certainly can’t hold you!

Psalm 113:4

The Lord is honored over all the nations. His glory reaches to the highest heavens.

Psalm 148:4

Praise him, you highest heavens. Praise him, you waters above the skies.

Psalm 68:33

He rides across the highest places in heaven. He rides across the ancient skies above. He thunders with his mighty voice.

Isaiah 66:1

The Lord says, “Heaven is my throne. The earth is under my control. So how could you ever build a house for me? Where would my resting place be?

Jeremiah 23:24

Who can hide in secret places so that I can’t see them?” announces the Lord. “Don’t I fill heaven and earth?” announces the Lord.

John 1:14

The Word became a human being. He made his home with us. We have seen his glory. It is the glory of the One and Only, who came from the Father. And the Word was full of grace and truth.

Acts 17:24

“He is the God who made the world. He also made everything in it. He is the Lord of heaven and earth. He doesn’t live in temples built by human hands.

2 Corinthians 12:2

I know a believer in Christ who was taken up to the third heaven 14 years ago. I don’t know if his body was taken up or not. Only God knows.

2 Corinthians 6:16

How can the temple of the true God and the statues of other gods agree? We are the temple of the living God. God has said, “I will live with them. I will walk among them. I will be their God. And they will be my people.” (Leviticus 26:12; Jeremiah 32:38; Ezekiel 37:27)

Deuteronomy 10:14

The heavens belong to the Lord your God. Even the highest heavens belong to him. He owns the earth and everything in it.

1 John 3:1

See what amazing love the Father has given us! Because of it, we are called children of God. And that’s what we really are! The world doesn’t know us because it didn’t know him.