Acts 7:48

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

Yet the Most High does not dwell in houses made with human hands; as the prophet says,

Cross References

1 Kings 8:27

“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!

2 Chronicles 6:18

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

Psalm 46:4

There is a river whose streams make glad the city of God, the holy habitation of the Most High.

Psalm 7:17

I will give to the Lord the thanks due to his righteousness and sing praise to the name of the Lord, the Most High.

Psalm 91:1

You who live in the shelter of the Most High, who abide in the shadow of the Almighty,

Psalm 91:9

Because you have made the Lord your refuge, the Most High your dwelling place,

Psalm 92:8

but you, O Lord, are on high forever.

Daniel 4:17

The sentence is rendered by decree of the watchers, the decision is given by order of the holy ones, in order that all who live may know that the Most High is sovereign over the kingdom of mortals; he gives it to whom he will and sets over it the lowliest of human beings.’

Daniel 4:34

When that period was over, I, Nebuchadnezzar, lifted my eyes to heaven, and my reason returned to me. I blessed the Most High and praised and honored the one who lives forever. For his sovereignty is an everlasting sovereignty, and his kingdom endures from generation to generation.

Hosea 7:16

They turn to that which does not profit; they have become like a defective bow; their officials shall fall by the sword because of the rage of their tongue. So much for their babbling in the land of Egypt.

Luke 1:32

He will be great and will be called the Son of the Most High, and the Lord God will give to him the throne of his ancestor David.

2 Corinthians 5:1

For we know that, if the earthly tent we live in is destroyed, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens.

Deuteronomy 32:8

When the Most High apportioned the nations, when he divided humankind, he fixed the boundaries of the peoples according to the number of the gods;