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 are to have no other gods but me.

Take note of all these things which I have said to you, and let not the names of other gods come into your minds or from your lips.

For you are to be worshippers of no other god: for the Lord is a God who will not give his honour to another.

Take care that you do not let the agreement of the Lord your God, which he has made with you, go out of your mind, or make for yourselves images of any sort, against the orders which the Lord your God has given you.

You are to have no other gods but me.

Do not go after other gods, the gods of the peoples round about you;

So now, go in fear of the Lord, and be his servants with true hearts: put away the gods worshipped by your fathers across the River and in Egypt, and be servants of the Lord.

Then Samuel said to all Israel, If with all your hearts you would come back to the Lord, then put away all the strange gods and the Astartes from among you, and let your hearts be turned to the Lord, and be servants to him only: and he will make you safe from the hands of the Philistines.

And Elijah came near to all the people and said, How long will you go on balancing between two opinions? if the Lord is God, then give worship to him; but if Baal, give worship to him. And the people said not a word in answer.

They gave worship to the Lord, but they gave honour to their gods like the nations did from whom they had been taken as prisoners.

And he put up altars in the house of the Lord, of which the Lord had said, In Jerusalem will I put my name.

And he put an end to the false priests, who had been put in their positions by the kings of Judah to see to the burning of offerings in the high places in the towns of Judah and the outskirts of Jerusalem, and all those who made offerings to Baal and to the sun and the moon and the twelve signs and all the stars of heaven.

And he made altars in the house of the Lord, of which the Lord had said, In Jerusalem will my name be for ever.

And I will put clean water on you so that you may be clean: from all your unclean ways and from all your images I will make you clean.

As for Ephraim, what has he to do with false gods any longer? I have given an answer and I will keep watch over him; I am like a branching fir-tree, from me comes your fruit.

And the worshippers of the army of heaven on the house-tops, and the Lord's worshippers who take oaths by Milcom,

No man is able to be a servant to two masters: for he will have hate for the one and love for the other, or he will keep to one and have no respect for the other. You may not be servants of God and of wealth.

And we are certain that the Son of God has come, and has given us a clear vision, so that we may see him who is true, and we are in him who is true, in his Son Jesus Christ. He is the true God and eternal life.

Ye are

Do you not see that you are God's holy house, and that the Spirit of God has his place in you?

Or are you not conscious that your body is a house for the Holy Spirit which is in you, and which has been given to you by God? and you are not the owners of yourselves;

Resting on the base of the Apostles and prophets, Christ Jesus himself being the chief keystone,

But Christ as a son, over his house; whose house are we, if we keep our hearts fixed in the glad and certain hope till the end.

You, as living stones, are being made into a house of the spirit, a holy order of priests, making those offerings of the spirit which are pleasing to God through Jesus Christ.

I will be

And I will make between me and you and your seed after you through all generations, an eternal agreement to be a God to you and to your seed after you.

And I will give them a heart to have knowledge of me, that I am the Lord: and they will be my people, and I will be their God: for they will come back to me with all their heart.

But this is the agreement which I will make with the people of Israel after those days, says the Lord; I will put my law in their inner parts, writing it in their hearts; and I will be their God, and they will be my people.

And they will be my people, and I will be their God:

So that they may be guided by my rules and keep my orders and do them: and they will be to me a people, and I will be to them a God.

So that you may go on living in the land which I gave to your fathers; and you will be to me a people, and I will be to you a God.

And I will make an agreement of peace with them: it will be an eternal agreement with them: and I will have mercy on them and make their numbers great, and will put my holy place among them for ever.

And I will put her as seed in the earth, and I will have mercy on her to whom no mercy was given; and I will say to those who were not my people, You are my people, and they will say, My God.

And I will make them come and be living in Jerusalem and they will be to me a people and I will be to them a God, in good faith and in righteousness.

And I will make the third part go through the fire, cleaning them as silver is made clean, and testing them as gold is tested: and they will make their prayer to me and I will give them an answer: I will say, It is my people; and they will say, The Lord is my God.

And in the place where it was said to them, You are not my people, there they will be named the sons of the living God.

For this is the agreement which I will make with the people of Israel after those days: I will put my laws into their minds, writing them in their hearts: and I will be their God, and they will be my people:

He who overcomes will have these things for his heritage; and I will be his God, and he will be my son.

General references

And after the birth of Methuselah, Enoch went on in God's ways for three hundred years, and had sons and daughters:

Gods of silver and gods of gold you are not to make for yourselves.

Among the children of Israel I will make my living-place, and I will be their God.

Or take their daughters for your sons; for when their daughters give worship before their gods, they will make your sons take part with them.

Do not take wives or husbands from among them; do not give your daughters to their sons, or take their daughters for your sons.

Judah became his holy place, and Israel his kingdom.

Do not be friends with a man who is given to wrath; do not go in the company of an angry man:

Is it possible for two to go walking together, if not by agreement?