22 Bible Verses about God's Dwelling

and yet, will God truly reside on earth? Look! Neither the sky nor the highest heaven can contain you! How much less this Temple that I have built!

until I locate a place for the LORD, a dwelling place for the Mighty One of Jacob."

"You will bring them in and plant them on the mountain of your inheritance. You have made a place where you will reside, LORD. Your own hands have established a sanctuary, LORD.

Now I have been constructing a magnificent Temple dedicated to you that will serve as a place for you to inhabit forever."

"You have led with your gracious love this people whom you redeemed. You have guided them with your strength to your holy dwelling.

LORD, I love the dwelling place that is your house, the place where your glory resides.

How lovely are your dwelling places, LORD of the Heavenly Armies.

You mountains of many peaks, why do you watch with envy the mountain in which God has chosen to dwell? Indeed, the LORD will live there forever.

these I will bring to my holy mountain, and make them joyful in my house of prayer. Their burnt offerings and their sacrifices will rise up to be accepted on my altar; for my house will be called a house of prayer for everyone."

Then Solomon said, "The LORD has said that he lives shrouded in darkness.

Watch your step whenever you visit God's house, and come more ready to listen than to offer a fool's sacrifice, since fools never think they're doing evil.

"You turned away in pursuit of abundance, but look at how little you found! What you did manage to bring home, I blew away! And why?' declares the LORD of the Heavenly Armies. "It's because of my house! It lies in ruins while each of you runs off to his own house!

Be silent, every living thing, in the presence of the LORD, because he is emerging from his Holy Place."

There are many rooms in my Father's house. If there weren't, I wouldn't have told you that I am going away to prepare a place for you, would I?

""Heaven is my throne, and the earth is my footstool. What kind of house can you build for me,' declares the Lord, "or what place is there in which I can rest?

He was faithful to the one who appointed him, just as Moses was in all God's household,

but the Messiah was faithful as the Son in charge of God's household, and we are his household if we hold on to our courage and the hope in which we rejoice.

and since we have a great high priest over the household of God,

and yet, will God truly reside on earth with human beings? Look! Neither the sky nor the highest heaven can contain you! How much less this Temple that I have built!

But who can build a temple for him, since neither heaven nor the highest of the heavens can contain him? So who am I, that I should build a temple to him, except to burn incense in his presence?

For David had said "The LORD God of Israel has granted rest to his people, and he has taken Israel as his eternal residence.