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

“You shall have no other gods before Me.

Now concerning everything which I have said to you, be on your guard; and do not mention the name of other gods, nor let them be heard from your mouth.

—for you shall not worship any other god, for the Lord, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God—

So watch yourselves, that you do not forget the covenant of the Lord your God which He made with you, and make for yourselves a graven image in the form of anything against which the Lord your God has commanded you.

‘You shall have no other gods before Me.

You shall not follow other gods, any of the gods of the peoples who surround you,

“Now, therefore,

fear the Lord and serve Him in sincerity and truth; and put away the gods which your fathers served beyond the River and in Egypt, and serve the Lord.

Then Samuel spoke to all the house of Israel, saying, “If you return to the Lord with all your heart, remove the foreign gods and the Ashtaroth from among you and direct your hearts to the Lord and serve Him alone; and He will deliver you from the hand of the Philistines.”

Elijah came near to all the people and said, “How long will you hesitate between two opinions? If the Lord is God, follow Him; but if Baal, follow him.” But the people did not answer him a word.

They feared the Lord and served their own gods according to the custom of the nations from among whom they had been carried away into exile.

He built altars in the house of the Lord, of which the Lord had said, “In Jerusalem I will put My name.”

He did away with the idolatrous priests whom the kings of Judah had appointed to burn incense in the high places in the cities of Judah and in the surrounding area of Jerusalem, also those who burned incense to Baal, to the sun and to the moon and to the constellations and to all the host of heaven.

He built altars in the house of the Lord of which the Lord had said, “My name shall be in Jerusalem forever.”

Then I will sprinkle clean water on you, and you will be clean; I will cleanse you from all your filthiness and from all your idols.

O Ephraim, what more have I to do with idols?
It is I who answer and look after you.
I am like a luxuriant cypress;
From Me comes your fruit.

“And those who bow down on the housetops to the host of heaven,
And those who bow down and swear to the Lord and yet swear by

Milcom,

“No one can serve two masters; for either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and

wealth.

And we know that the Son of God has come, and has given us understanding so that we may know Him who is true; and we are in Him who is true, in His Son Jesus Christ. This is the true God and eternal life.

Ye are

Do you not know that you are a temple of God and that the Spirit of God dwells in you?

Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have from God, and that you are not your own?

having been built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Christ Jesus Himself being the corner stone,

but Christ was faithful as a Son over His house—whose house we are, if we hold fast our confidence and the boast of our hope firm until the end.

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

I will be

I will establish My covenant between Me and you and your descendants after you throughout their generations for an everlasting covenant, to be God to you and to your descendants after you.

I will give them a heart to know Me, for I am the Lord; and they will be My people, and I will be their God, for they will return to Me with their whole heart.

“But this is the covenant which I will make with the house of Israel after those days,” declares the Lord, “I will put My law within them and on their heart I will write it; and I will be their God, and they shall be My people.

They shall be My people, and I will be their God;

that they may walk in My statutes and keep My ordinances and do them. Then they will be My people, and I shall be their God.

You will live in the land that I gave to your forefathers; so 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. And I will place them and multiply them, and will set My sanctuary in their midst forever.

“I will sow her for Myself in the land.

I will also have compassion on her who had not obtained compassion,

And I will say to those who were not My people,
‘You are My people!’
And they will say, ‘You are my God!’”

and I will bring them back and they will live in the midst of Jerusalem; and they shall be My people, and I will be their God in truth and righteousness.’

“And I will bring the third part through the fire,
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, ‘The Lord is my God.’”

“And it shall be that in the place where it was said to them, ‘you are not My people,’
There they shall be called sons of

the living God.”

“For 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 I will write them

on their hearts.

And I will be their God,
And they shall be My people.

He who overcomes will inherit these things, and I will be his God and he will be My son.

General references

Then Enoch walked with God three hundred years after he became the father of Methuselah, and he had other sons and daughters.

You shall not make other gods besides Me; gods of silver or gods of gold, you shall not make for yourselves.

I will dwell among the sons of Israel and will be their God.

and you might take some of his daughters for your sons, and his daughters might play the harlot with their gods and cause your sons also to play the harlot with their gods.

Furthermore, you shall not intermarry with them; you shall not give your daughters to their sons, nor shall you take their daughters for your sons.

Judah became His sanctuary,
Israel, His dominion.

Do not associate with a man given to anger;
Or go with a hot-tempered man,

Do two men walk together unless they have made an appointment?