2 Corinthians 6:16

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2 Corinthians 6:16

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Summary

And what agreement hath the temple of God with idols? for ye are the temple of the living God; as God hath said, I will dwell in them, and walk in them; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people.

What

Ye are

1 Peter 2:5

I will be

General references

Bible References

What

Do not have other gods besides Me.

“Pay strict attention to everything I have said to you. You must not invoke the names of other gods; they must not be heard on your lips.

You are never to bow down to another god because Yahweh, being jealous by nature, is a jealous God.

Be careful not to forget the covenant of the Lord your God that He made with you, and make an idol for yourselves in the shape of anything He has forbidden you.

Do not have other gods besides Me.

Do not follow other gods, the gods of the peoples around you,

“Therefore, fear the Lord and worship Him in sincerity and truth. Get rid of the gods your fathers worshiped beyond the Euphrates River and in Egypt, and worship Yahweh.

Samuel told them, “If you are returning to the Lord

with all your heart, get rid of the foreign gods and the Ashtoreths that are among you, dedicate yourselves to the Lord, and worship only Him. Then He will rescue you from the hand of the Philistines.”

Then Elijah approached all the people and said, “How long will you hesitate between two opinions? If Yahweh is God, follow Him. But if Baal, follow him.” But the people didn’t answer him a word.

They feared the Lord, but they also worshiped their own gods according to the custom of the nations where they had been deported from.

He built altars in the Lord’s temple, where the Lord had said, “Jerusalem is where I will put My name.”

Then he did away with the idolatrous priests the kings of Judah had appointed to burn incense at the high places in the cities of Judah and in the areas surrounding Jerusalem. They had burned incense to Baal, and to the sun, moon, constellations, and the whole heavenly host.

He built altars in the Lord’s temple, where Yahweh had said, “Jerusalem is where My name will remain forever.”

I will also sprinkle clean water on you, and you will be clean. I will cleanse you from all your impurities and all your idols.

Ephraim, why should I have anything more
to do with idols?
It is I who answer and watch over him.
I am like a flourishing pine tree;
your fruit comes from Me.

those who bow in worship on the rooftops
to the heavenly host;
those who bow and pledge loyalty to the Lord

but also pledge loyalty to Milcom;

“No one can be a slave of two masters, since either he will hate one and love the other, or be devoted to one and despise the other. You cannot be slaves of God and of money.

And we know that the Son of God has come and has given us understanding so that we may know the true One. We are in the true One—that is, in His Son Jesus Christ. He is the true God and eternal life.

Ye are

Don’t you yourselves know that you are God’s sanctuary and that the Spirit of God lives in you?

Don’t you know that your body is a sanctuary of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have from God? You are not your own,

built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, with Christ Jesus Himself as the cornerstone.

But Christ was faithful as a Son over His household. And we are that household if we hold on to the courage and the confidence of our hope.

you yourselves, as living stones, are being built into a spiritual house for a holy priesthood to offer spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.

I will be

I will keep My covenant between Me and you, and your future offspring throughout their generations, as an everlasting covenant to be your God and the God of your offspring after you.

I will give them a heart to know Me, that I am Yahweh. They will be My people, and I will be their God because they will return to Me with all their heart.

“Instead, this is the covenant I will make with the house of Israel after those days”—the Lord’s declaration. “I will put My teaching within them and write it on their hearts. I will be their God, and they will be My people.

They will be My people, and I will be their God.

so they may follow My statutes, keep My ordinances, and practice them. Then they will be My people, and I will be their God.

Then you will live in the land that I gave your fathers; you will be My people, and I will be your God.

I will make a covenant of peace with them; it will be an everlasting covenant with them. I will establish and multiply them and will set My sanctuary among them forever.

I will sow her in the land for Myself,
and I will have compassion
on No Compassion;
I will say to Not My People:
You are My people,
and he will say, “You are My God.”

I will bring them back to live in Jerusalem. They will be My people, and I will be their faithful and righteous God.”

I will put this third through the fire;
I will refine them as silver is refined
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: Yahweh is our God.”

And it will be in the place where they were told,
you are not My people,
there they will be called sons of the living God.

But this is the covenant
that I will make with the house of Israel
after those days, says the Lord:
I will put My laws into their minds
and write them on their hearts.
I will be their God,
and they will be My people.

The victor will inherit these things, and I will be his God, and he will be My son.

General references

And after the birth of Methuselah, Enoch walked with God 300 years and fathered other sons and daughters.

You must not make gods of silver to rival Me; you must not make gods of gold for yourselves.

I will dwell among the Israelites and be their God.

Then you will take some of their daughters as brides for your sons. Their daughters will prostitute themselves with their gods and cause your sons to prostitute themselves with their gods.

Do not intermarry with them. Do not give your daughters to their sons or take their daughters for your sons,

Judah became His sanctuary,
Israel, His dominion.

Don’t make friends with an angry man,
and don’t be a companion of a hot-tempered man,

Can two walk together
without agreeing to meet?