2 Corinthians 6:16

New Revised Standard Version Catholic Interconfessional

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.

Cross References

1 Kings 18:21

Elijah then came near to all the people, and said, “How long will you go limping with two different opinions? If the Lord is God, follow him; but if Baal, then follow him.” The people did not answer him 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

Be attentive to all that I have said to you. Do not invoke the names of other gods; do not let them be heard on your lips.

Exodus 25:8

And have them make me a sanctuary, so that I may dwell among them.

Exodus 29:45

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

Exodus 34:14

(for you shall worship no other god, because the Lord, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God).

Jeremiah 24:7

I will give them a heart to know that I am the Lord; and they shall be my people and I will be their God, for they shall 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 is 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 I will write it on their hearts; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people.

Jeremiah 32:38

They shall be my people, and I will be their God.

Ezekiel 11:20

so that they may follow my statutes and keep my ordinances and obey them. Then they shall be my people, and I will be their God.

Ezekiel 36:25

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

Ezekiel 36:28

Then you shall live in the land that I gave to your ancestors; and you shall be my people, and I will be your God.

Ezekiel 43:7

He said to me: Mortal, this is the place of my throne and the place for the soles of my feet, where I will reside among the people of Israel forever. The house of Israel shall no more defile my holy name, neither they nor their kings, by their whoring, and by the corpses of their kings at their death.

Ezekiel 43:9

Now let them put away their idolatry and the corpses of their kings far from me, and I will reside among them forever.

Hosea 14:8

O Ephraim, what have I to do with idols? It is I who answer and look after you. I am like an evergreen cypress; your faithfulness comes from me.

Hosea 2:23

and I will sow him for myself in the land. And I will have pity on Lo-ruhamah, and I will say to Lo-ammi, “You are my people”; and he shall say, “You are my God.”

Leviticus 26:12

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

Zephaniah 1:5

those who bow down on the roofs to the host of the heavens; those who bow down and swear to the Lord, but also swear by Milcom;

Zechariah 13:9

And I will put this third into the fire, refine them as one refines silver, and test them as gold is tested. 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 our God.”

Zechariah 8:8

and I will bring them to live in Jerusalem. They shall be my people and I will be their God, in faithfulness and in righteousness.

Matthew 16:16

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

Matthew 6:24

“No one can serve two masters; for a slave will either hate the one and love the other, or be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and wealth.

Luke 5:36

He also told them a parable: “No one tears a piece from a new garment and sews it on an old garment; otherwise the new will be torn, and the piece from the new will not match the old.

John 14:23

Jesus answered him, “Those who love me will keep my word, and 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 abide in me, and I in them.

Romans 8:11

If the Spirit of him who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you, he who raised Christ from the dead will give life to your mortal bodies also through his Spirit that dwells in you.

Romans 8:9

But you are not in the flesh; you are in the Spirit, since the Spirit of God dwells in you. Anyone who does not have the Spirit of Christ does not belong to him.

Romans 9:26

“And in the very place where it was said to them, ‘You are not my people,’ there they shall be called children of the living God.”

1 Corinthians 10:21

You cannot drink the cup of the Lord and the cup of demons. You cannot partake of the table of the Lord and the table of demons.

1 Corinthians 6:19

Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit within you, which you have from God, and that you are not your own?

Ephesians 2:20

built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, with Christ Jesus himself as the cornerstone.

Ephesians 2:22

in whom you also are built together spiritually into a dwelling place for God.

Ephesians 3:17

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

Deuteronomy 5:7

you shall have no other gods before me.

1 Timothy 3:15

if I am delayed, you may know how one ought to behave in the household of God, which is the church of the living God, the pillar and bulwark of the truth.

2 Timothy 1:14

Guard the good treasure entrusted to you, with the help of the Holy Spirit living in us.

Hebrews 3:6

Christ, however, was faithful over God's house as a son, and we are his house if we hold firm the confidence and the pride that belong to hope.

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 in their minds, and write them on their hearts, and I will be their God, and they shall be my people.

James 4:5

Or do you suppose that it is for nothing that the scripture says, “God yearns jealously for the spirit that he has made to dwell in us”?

1 Peter 2:5

like living stones, let yourselves be built into a spiritual house, to be a holy priesthood, to offer spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.

1 John 4:12

No one has ever seen God; if we love one another, God lives in us, and his love is perfected in us.

1 John 4:15

God abides in those who confess that Jesus is the Son of God, and they abide in God.

Revelation 2:1

“To the angel of the church in Ephesus write: These are the words of him who holds the seven stars in his right hand, who walks among the seven golden lampstands:

Revelation 21:3

And I heard a loud voice from the throne saying, “See, the home of God is among mortals. He will dwell with them as their God; they will be his peoples, and God himself will be with them;

Revelation 21:7

Those who conquer will inherit these things, and I will be their God and they will be my children.