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  • 1 Corinthians 3:16-17

    [16] Don't you know that you are a temple of God, and that God's Spirit lives in you? [17] If anyone destroys the temple of God, God will destroy him; for God's temple is holy, which you are.

  • 1 Corinthians 3:16

    Don't you know that you are a temple of God, and that God's Spirit lives in you?

  • 1 Corinthians 6:19-20

    [19] Or don't you know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit which is in you, which you have from God? You are not your own, [20] for you were bought with a price. Therefore glorify God in your body and in your spirit, which are God's.

  • Acts 17:24

    The God who made the world and all things in it, he, being Lord of heaven and earth, doesn't dwell in temples made with hands,

  • Isaiah 66:1-2

    [1] Thus says Yahweh, heaven is my throne, and the earth is my footstool: what manner of house will you build to me? and what place shall be my rest? [2] For all these things has my hand made, and [so] all these things came to be, says Yahweh: but to this man will I look, even to him who is poor and of a contrite spirit, and who trembles at my word.

  • Jeremiah 7:3-11

    [3] Thus says Yahweh of Hosts, the God of Israel, Amend your ways and your doings, and I will cause you to dwell in this place. [4] Don't you trust in lying words, saying, The temple of Yahweh, the temple of Yahweh, the temple of Yahweh, are these. [5] For if you thoroughly amend your ways and your doings; if you thoroughly execute justice between a man and his neighbor; [6] if you don't oppress the foreigner, the fatherless, and the widow, and don't shed innocent blood in this place, neither walk after other gods to your own hurt: [7] then will I cause you to dwell in this place, in the land that I gave to your fathers, from of old even forevermore. [8] Behold, you trust in lying words, that can't profit. [9] Will you steal, murder, and commit adultery, and swear falsely, and burn incense to Baal, and walk after other gods that you have not known, [10] and come and stand before me in this house, which is called by my name, and say, We are delivered; that you may do all these abominations? [11] Is this house, which is called by my name, become a den of robbers in your eyes? Behold, I, even I, have seen it, says Yahweh.

  • Revelation 11:19

    God's temple that is in heaven was opened, and the ark of the Lord's covenant was seen in his temple. Lightnings, sounds, thunders, an earthquake, and great hail followed.

  • Isaiah 56:7

    even them will I bring to my holy mountain, and make them joyful in my house of prayer: their burnt offerings and their sacrifices shall be accepted on my altar; for my house shall be called a house of prayer for all peoples.

  • Ephesians 2:19-22

    [19] So then you are no longer strangers and foreigners, but you are fellow citizens with the saints, and of the household of God, [20] being built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Christ Jesus himself being the chief cornerstone; [21] in whom the whole building, fitted together, grows into a holy temple in the Lord; [22] in whom you also are built together for a habitation of God in the Spirit.

  • Mark 13:1-2

    [1] As he went out of the temple, one of his disciples said to him, "Teacher, see what kind of stones and what kind of buildings!" [2] Jesus said to him, "Do you see these great buildings? There will not be left here one stone on another, which will not be thrown down."

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