Parallel Verses
Julia Smith Translation
And what agreement to the temple of God with images? for ye are the temple of the living God; as God said, That I will dwell in them, and will go round about; and will be their God, and they shall be a people to me.
New American Standard Bible
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And I will be their God, and they shall be My people.
King James Version
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.
Holman Bible
And what agreement does God’s sanctuary have with idols?
and walk among them,
and I will be their God,
and they will be My people.
International Standard Version
What agreement can a temple of God make with idols? For we are the temple of the living God, just as God said: "I will live and walk among them. I will be their God, and they will be my people."
A Conservative Version
And what mutual agreement has a temple of God with idols? For ye are a temple of the living God, just as God said, I will dwell in them, and will walk among them. And I will be their God, and they will be a people to me.
American Standard Version
And what agreement hath a temple of God with idols? for we are a temple of the living God; even as God said, I will dwell in them, and walk in them; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people.
Amplified
What agreement is there between the temple of God and idols? For we are the temple of the living God; just as God said:
And I will be their God, and they shall be My people.
An Understandable Version
And what agreement is there between a temple of God and idols? For we are a temple of the living God, just as God said [Lev. 26:12], "I will live in them and walk among them [i.e., among His people]; and I will be their God and they will be my people."
Anderson New Testament
What has a temple of God in common with one of idols? For you are the temple of the living God, as God has said: I will dwell in them, and walk among them; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people.
Bible in Basic English
And what agreement has the house of God with images? for we are a house of the living God; even as God has said, I will be living among them, and walking with them; and I will be their God, and they will be my people.
Common New Testament
What agreement has the temple of God with idols? For we are the temple of the living God; as God said, "I will live in them and walk among them, and I will be their God, and they shall be my people.
Daniel Mace New Testament
and what agreement hath the temple of God with idols? for ye are the temple of the living God; as God has said, "I will dwell with, and walk among them; I will be their God, and they shall be my people.
Darby Translation
and what agreement of God's temple with idols? for ye are the living God's temple; according as God has said, I will dwell among them, and walk among them; and I will be their God, and they shall be to me a people.
Godbey New Testament
And what harmony has the temple of God with idols? for we are the temple of the living God; as God said; I will live in them, and walk about among them; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people.
Goodspeed New Testament
What bargain can a temple of God make with idols? For we are a temple of the living God, just as God said, "I will live in them and move among them, And I will be their God and they will be my people."
John Wesley New Testament
And what agreement hath the temple of God with idols? Now 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 to them a God, and they shall be to me a people.
King James 2000
And what agreement has the temple of God with idols? for you are the temple of the living God; as God has said, I will dwell in them, and walk in them; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people.
Lexham Expanded Bible
And what agreement [does the] temple of God [have] with idols? For we are the temple of the living God, just as God said, "I will live in them and will walk about [among them], and I will be their God and they will be my people."
Modern King James verseion
And what agreement does a temple of God have with idols? For you are the temple of the living God, as God has said, "I will dwell in them and walk among them; and I will be their God, and they shall be My people."
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
How agreeth the temple of God with images? And ye are the temple of the living God, as said God, "I will dwell among them, and walk among them, and will be their God: and they shall be my people."
Moffatt New Testament
What compact can there be between God's temple and idols? For we are the temple of the living God ??as God has said, I will dwell and move among them, I will be their God and they shall be my people.
Montgomery New Testament
And what compact has God's temple with idols? For we are a temple of the living God, as he has said: I will dwell among them, and walk about among them; I will be their God, and they will be my people.
NET Bible
And what mutual agreement does the temple of God have with idols? For we are the temple of the living God, just as God said, "I will live in them and will walk among them, and I will be their God, and they will be my people."
New Heart English Bible
What agreement has a temple of God with idols? For we are a temple of the living God. Even as God said, "I will dwell in them, and walk in them; and I will be their God, and they will be my people."
Noyes New Testament
And what agreement hath the temple of God with idols? For ye are the temple of the living God; as God said: "I will dwell among them, and walk among them; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people."
Sawyer New Testament
and what agreement has a temple of God with idols? For you are a temple of the living God; as God said, I will dwell in them, and I will walk in them, and I will be to them a God and they shall be to me a people.
The Emphasized Bible
And what agreement hath a shrine of God with idols? For, we, are the shrine of a God, that liveth: - even as God hath said - will dwell in them, and walk, and will be their God, and, they, shall be my people.
Thomas Haweis New Testament
or what agreement hath the temple of God with idols? for ye are the temple of the living God; as God hath said, "I will inhabit in them, and walk about in them; and I will be their God, and they shall be for me a people."
Twentieth Century New Testament
What agreement can thee be between a temple of God and idols? And we are a temple of the Living God. That is what God meant when he said--'I will dwell among them, and walk among them; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people.
Webster
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.
Weymouth New Testament
And what compact has the Temple of God with idols? For *we* are the Temple of the ever-living God; as God has said, "I will dwell among them, and walk about among them; and will be their God, and it is they who shall be My people."
Williams New Testament
And what agreement can a temple of God make with idols? For we are the temple of the living God, just as God said: "I will live in them and walk in them, and I will be their God and they will be my people."
World English Bible
What agreement has a temple of God with idols? For you are a temple of the living God. Even as God said, "I will dwell in them, and walk in them; and I will be their God, and they will be my people."
Worrell New Testament
And what agreement has a temple of God with idols? for we are a temple of the living God, as God said, "I will dwell in them, and walk in them; and I will be their God, and they shall be My people."
Worsley New Testament
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 I will walk among them, and I will be their God, and they shall be my people."
Youngs Literal Translation
and what agreement to the sanctuary of God with idols? for ye are a sanctuary of the living God, according as God said -- 'I will dwell in them, and will walk among them, and I will be their God, and they shall be My people,
Themes
Alliance and society with the enemies of God » Forbidden
Alliance and society with the enemies of God » Unbecoming in those called saints
Children » Who are the children of God
Church » Temple of the living God
Communion » What cannot have communion together
Communion of saints » Opposed to communion with the wicked
Communion with God » Holiness essential to
Family » Who are members of the lord’s family
Holy spirit » Where the holy spirit dwells
the Indwelling of the Holy Spirit » In the body of saints, as his temple
Separation » Separating yourself from unclean things
Servants » Servants not being able to serve two masters
Service » What cannot be served together
Spiritual » Temple » General references to
Temple » Figurative » Of the indwelling of God
spiritual Temple » General references to
The First Temple » Illustrative of » The spiritual church
Interlinear
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Word Count of 37 Translations in 2 Corinthians 6:16
Prayers for 2 Corinthians 6:16
Verse Info
Context Readings
Do Not Become Unevenly Yoked With Unbelievers
15 And what conformity to Christ with Belial? and what part to the believing with the unbelieving? 16 And what agreement to the temple of God with images? for ye are the temple of the living God; as God said, That I will dwell in them, and will go round about; and will be their God, and they shall be a people to me. 17 Therefore come out from the midst of them, and be separated, says the Lord, and touch not the unclean; and I will receive you.
Cross References
Leviticus 26:12
And I walked in the midst of you, and I was to you for God, and ye shall be to me for a people.
Exodus 29:45
And I dwelt in the midst of the sons of Israel, and I was to them for God.
Jeremiah 31:33
For this the covenant that I will cut out with the house of Israel: After those days, says Jehovah; I gave my law in the midst of them, and upon their heart will I write it; and I was to them for God, and they shall be to me for a people.
Revelation 21:3
And I heard a great voice from heaven saying, Behold the tent of God with men, and he will dwell with them and they shall be his people, and God himself shall be with them, their God.
Jeremiah 32:38
And they were to me for a people, and I will be to them for God.
Ezekiel 11:20
That they shall walk in my laws, and they shall watch my judgments and do them, and they were to me for a people and I shall be to them for God.
Ezekiel 37:26-27
And I cut out to them a covenant of peace; it shall be an eternal covenant with them: and I gave them, and I multiplied them, and I gave my holy place in the midst of them forever.
1 Corinthians 3:16-17
Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and the spirit of God dwells in you?
1 Corinthians 6:19
Or know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit in you, which ye have from God, and ye are not your own?
Genesis 17:7-8
And I set up my covenant between me and between thee, and between thy seed after thee to their generations for a covenant of eternity; to be a God to thee and to thy seed after thee.
Exodus 20:3
There shall be no other God to thee to my face.
Exodus 23:13
And in all which I said to you ye shall watch; and ye shall not call to mind the name of other gods; it shall not be heard above thy mouth.
Exodus 34:14
For thou shalt not worship another God: for Jehovah, his name is Jealous; he is a jealous God.
Deuteronomy 4:23-24
Watch for yourselves lest ye shall forget the covenant of Jehovah your God which he cut out with you, and ye make to you any carved thing, the appearance of any thing which Jehovah thy God commanded thee.
Deuteronomy 5:7
There shall not be to thee other gods before me.
Deuteronomy 6:14-15
Ye shall not go after other gods from the gods of the peoples which are round about you;
Joshua 24:14-24
And, now fear ye Jehovah and serve him in uprightness and in truth; and remove the gods which your fathers served beyond the river and in Egypt; and serve ye Jehovah.
1 Samuel 7:3-4
And Samuel will say to all the house of Israel, saying, If with all your heart ye turn back to Jehovah, remove the strange gods out of the midst of you, and Ashtaroth, and prepare your hearts to Jehovah, and serve him alone, and he will deliver you from the hand of Philisteim.
1 Kings 18:21
And Elijah will draw near to all the people and say, How long halt ye upon two opinions? if Jehovah is God, go ye after him: and if Baal, go ye after him. And the people answered him not a word.
2 Kings 17:33-34
They were fearing Jehovah, and were serving their gods according to the judgment of the nations who carried them into exile from thence,
2 Kings 21:4-5
And he built altars in the house of Jehovah where Jehovah said, In Jerusalem I will put my name.
2 Kings 23:5-7
And he caused the obscurations to cease which the kings of Judah gave, and he will burn incense in the heights in the cities of Judah, and those being round about Jerusalem, and those burning incense to Baal, to the sun and to the moon and to the constellations and to all the army of the heavens.
2 Chronicles 33:4-5
And he built altars in the house of Jehovah, which Jehovah said, In Jerusalem shall be my name forever.
Psalm 90:1
Prayer to Moses the man of God. O Jehovah, thou wert a refuge to us in generation and generation.
Jeremiah 24:7
And I gave to them a heart to know me, that I am Jehovah: and they were to me for a people, and I will be to them for God: for they shall turn back to me with all their heart
Ezekiel 36:25
And I sprinkled clean waters upon you, and ye were cleansed: from all your uncleannesses and from all your blocks will I cleanse you.
Ezekiel 36:28
And ye dwelt in the land which I gave to your fathers, and ye were to me for a people, and I shall be to you for God.
Ezekiel 43:7
And he will say to me, Son of man, the place of my throne, and the place of the soles of my feet, where I shall dwell there in the midst of the sons of Israel forever, and the house of Israel shall no more defile my holy name, they and their kings by their fornication, and by the corpses of their kings in their heights.
Ezekiel 43:9
Now they shall put far off their fornication, and the corpses of their kings, from me, and I dwelt in the midst of them forever.
Hosea 2:23
And I sowed her to me in the earth; and I compassionated her Not being compassionated; and I said to Not my people, Thou my people; and they will say, My God.
Hosea 14:8
Ephraim: What to me yet to images? I humbled, and I will regard him: I as the green cypress From me thy fruit was found.
Zephaniah 1:5
And those worshiping upon the roofs to the army of the heavens, and worshiping, swearing to Jehovah, and swearing to Malcham;
Zechariah 2:10-11
Shout for joy and rejoice, O daughter of Zion: for behold me coming, and I dwelt in the midst of thee, says Jehovah.
Zechariah 8:8
And I brought them, and they dwelt in the midst of Jerusalem: and they were to me for a people, and I will be to them for God, in truth and in justice.
Zechariah 13:9
And I brought the third through fire, and I purified them as purifying silver, and I tried them as trying gold: he shall call on my name and I will answer him: I said, He is my people; and he shall say, Jehovah my God.
Matthew 6:24
None can serve two lords: for either he will hate one and love the other; or hold firmly to one and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.
John 6:56
He chewing my flesh, and drinking my blood, remains in me, and I in him.
Romans 8:9
But ye are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if indeed the Spirit of God dwell in you. And if any have not the Spirit of Christ, he is not his.
Romans 8:11
And if the Spirit of him having raised up Jesus from the dead dwell in you, he having raised up Christ from the dead will make alive also your mortal bodies by his Spirit dwelling in you.
Romans 9:26
And it shall be, in the place where it was said to them, Ye not my people; there shall they be called the sons of the living God.
Ephesians 2:20
Built upon the foundation of the sent, and of the prophets, Jesus Christ himself being the corner stone;
Ephesians 3:17
For Christ to dwell by faith in your hearts; in love being rendered firm, and the foundation laid,
2 Timothy 1:14
Watch the good deposit by the Holy Spirit dwelling in us.
Hebrews 3:6
And Christ as a son over his house: whose house are we, if we should hold freedom of speech and the boast of hope firm to the end.
Hebrews 8:10
For this the covenant which I will set to the house of Israel after those days, says the Lord; giving my laws into their mind, and upon their hearts will I write them: and I will be to them for God, and they shall be to me for a people:
1 Peter 2:5
And ye yourselves are built, as living stones, a spiritual house, a holy priesthood, to bring up spiritual sacrifice; acceptable to God by Jesus Christ.
1 John 4:12
None has ever seen God. If we love one another, God remains in us, and his love is completed in us.
1 John 4:15
Whoever acknowledges that Jesus is the Son of God, God remains in him, and he in God.
1 John 5:20-21
And we know that the Son of God has come, and has given us understanding, and we know him true, and we are in him true, in his Son Jesus Christ. This is the true God, and eternal life.
Revelation 2:1
To the messenger of the Ephesian church write: Thus says he holding the seven stars in his right hand, he walking about in the midst of the seven golden chandeliers;
Revelation 21:7
He conquering shall inherit all things; and I will be God to him, and he shall be son to me.