11 Bible Verses about God Is Transcendent

But who is able to build for him a house, seeing heaven and the heaven of heavens cannot contain him? Who am I then, that I should build for him a house, except only to burn incense before him?

For my thoughts are not your thoughts, nor are your ways my ways, says LORD. For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts.

The God who made the world and all things in it, he, being Lord of heaven and earth, dwells not in temples made with hands,

[It is] he who sits above the circle of the earth, and the inhabitants thereof are as grasshoppers, who stretches out the heavens as a curtain, and spreads them out as a tent to dwell in,

Can any man hide himself in secret places so that I shall not see him? says LORD. Do I not fill heaven and earth? says LORD.

But will God indeed dwell on the earth? Behold, heaven and the heaven of heavens cannot contain thee. How much less this house that I have built!

Do therefore according to thy wisdom, and do not let his hoar head go down to Sheol in peace.

Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, goodwill among men.

The heaven is to me a throne, and the earth a footstool of my feet. What house will ye build for me? says Lord. Or what is the place of my rest?

For thou, LORD, are most high above all the earth. Thou are exalted far above all gods.

Who, being the radiance of his glory, and the exact image of his essence, and upholding all things by the word of his power, having made purification of our sins through himself, he sat down at the right hand of the Majesty in the