1 Kings 8:27

New Revised Standard Version Catholic Interconfessional

“But will God indeed dwell on the earth? Even heaven and the highest heaven cannot contain you, much less this house that I have built!

Cross References

2 Chronicles 2:5

The house that I am about to build will be great, for our God is greater than other gods.

2 Chronicles 2:6

But who is able to build him a house, since heaven, even highest heaven, cannot contain him? Who am I to build a house for him, except as a place to make offerings before him?

2 Chronicles 6:18

“But will God indeed reside with mortals on earth? Even heaven and the highest heaven cannot contain you, how much less this house that I have built!

Psalm 113:4

The Lord is high above all nations, and his glory above the heavens.

Psalm 148:4

Praise him, you highest heavens, and you waters above the heavens!

Psalm 68:33

O rider in the heavens, the ancient heavens; listen, he sends out his voice, his mighty voice.

Isaiah 66:1

Thus says the Lord: Heaven is my throne and the earth is my footstool; what is the house that you would build for me, and what is my resting place?

Jeremiah 23:24

Who can hide in secret places so that I cannot see them? says the Lord. Do I not fill heaven and earth? says the Lord.

John 1:14

And the Word became flesh and lived among us, and we have seen his glory, the glory as of a father's only son, full of grace and truth.

Acts 17:24

The God who made the world and everything in it, he who is Lord of heaven and earth, does not live in shrines made by human hands,

2 Corinthians 12:2

I know a person in Christ who fourteen years ago was caught up to the third heaven—whether in the body or out of the body I do not know; God knows.

2 Corinthians 6:16

What agreement has the temple of God with idols? For we are the temple of the living God; as God said, “I will live in them and walk among them, and I will be their God, and they shall be my people.

Deuteronomy 10:14

Although heaven and the heaven of heavens belong to the Lord your God, the earth with all that is in it,

1 John 3:1

See what love the Father has given us, that we should be called children of God; and that is what we are. The reason the world does not know us is that it did not know him.