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.

"Be careful to do all things that I have said to you; and do not invoke the name of other gods, neither let them be heard out of your mouth.

for you shall worship no other god: for the LORD, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God.

Take heed to yourselves, lest you forget the covenant of the LORD your God, which he made with you, and make you an engraved image in the form of anything which the LORD your God has forbidden you.

"You shall have no other gods before me.

You shall not go after other gods, of the gods of the peoples who are around you;

Now therefore fear the LORD, and serve him in sincerity and in truth. Put away the gods which your fathers served beyond the River, in Egypt; and serve the LORD.

Samuel spoke to all the house of Israel, saying, "If you do return to the LORD with all your heart, then put away the foreign gods and the Ashtaroth from among you, and direct your hearts to the LORD, and serve him only; and he will deliver you out of the hand of the Philistines."

Elijah came near to all the people, and said, "How long will you keep limping between two positions? If the LORD is God, follow him; but if Baal, then follow him." But the people did not answer him a word.

And they worshiped the LORD, yet served their own gods, after the ways of the nations from among whom they had been carried away.

He built altars in the house of the LORD, of which the LORD said, "I will put my name in Jerusalem."

He put down the idolatrous priests, whom the kings of Judah had ordained to burn incense in the high places in the cities of Judah, and in the places around Jerusalem; those also who burned incense to Baal, to the sun, and to the moon, and to the planets, and to all the host of heaven.

He built altars in the house of the LORD, of which the LORD said, "My name shall be in Jerusalem forever."

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

Ephraim, what have I to do any more with idols? I answer, and will take care of him. I am like a green fir tree; from me your fruit is found."

those who worship the host of heaven on the housetops, those who worship and swear by the LORD and also swear by Malcam,

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

We know that the Son of God has come, and has given us an understanding, that we know 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 know that you are a temple of God, and that God's Spirit lives in you?

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

being built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Christ Jesus himself being the chief cornerstone;

but Christ is faithful as a Son over his house; whose house we are, if we hold fast our confidence and the glorying of our hope.

You also, as living stones, are built up as a spiritual house, to be 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 seed after you throughout their generations for an everlasting covenant, to be a God to you and to your seed after you.

I will give them a heart to know me, that I am the LORD: and they shall be my people, and I will be their God; for they shall return to me with their whole heart.'

"But this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days," says the LORD: "I will put my law in their inward parts, and in their heart will I write it; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people:

and 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: and they shall be my people, and I will be their God.

You shall dwell in the land that I gave to your fathers; and you shall be my people, and I will be your God.

Moreover I will make a covenant of peace with them; it shall be an everlasting covenant with them; and I will place them, and multiply them, and will set my sanctuary in their midst forevermore.

I will sow her to me in the earth; and I will have mercy on her who had not obtained mercy; and I will tell those who were not my people, 'You are my people;' and they will say, 'My God.'"

and I will bring them, and they will dwell in the midst of Jerusalem; and they will be my people, and I will be their God, in truth and in righteousness."

I will bring the third part into the fire, and will refine them as silver is refined, and will test them like gold is tested. They will call on my name, and I will hear them. I will say, 'It is my people;' and they will say, 'The LORD is my God.'"

"It will be that in the place where it was said to them, 'You are not my people,' There they will be called 'children 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 mind, I will also write them on their heart. I will be their God, and they will be my people.

He who overcomes, I will give him these things. I will be his God, and he will be my son.

General references

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

You shall most certainly not make alongside of me gods of silver, or gods of gold for yourselves.

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

and you take of their daughters to your sons, and their daughters play the prostitute after their gods, and make your sons play the prostitute after their gods.

neither shall you make marriages with them; your daughter you shall not give to his son, nor shall you take his daughter for your son.

Judah became his sanctuary, Israel his dominion.

Do not befriend a hot-tempered man, and do not associate with one who harbors anger:

Do two walk together, unless they have agreed?