Acts 7:48

Bible in Basic English (1941)

But still, the Most High has not his resting-place in houses made with hands, as the prophet says,

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  • 1 Kgs 8:27 : 27 But is it truly possible that God may be housed on earth? see, heaven and the heaven of heavens are not wide enough to be your resting-place; how much less this house which I have made!
  • 2 Chr 2:5-6 : 5 And the house which I am building is to be great, for our God is greater than all gods. 6 But who may have strength enough to make a house for him, seeing that the heaven and the heaven of heavens are not wide enough to be his resting-place? who am I then to make a house for him? But I am building it only for the burning of perfume before him.
  • Isa 66:1-2 : 1 The Lord says, Heaven is the seat of my power, and earth is the resting-place for my feet: what sort of house will you make for me, and what place will be my resting-place? 2 For all these things my hand has made, and they are mine, says the Lord; but to this man only will I give attention, to him who is poor and broken in spirit, fearing my word.
  • Acts 17:24-25 : 24 The God who made the earth and everything in it, he, being Lord of heaven and earth, is not housed in buildings made with hands; 25 And he is not dependent on the work of men's hands, as if he had need of anything, for he himself gives to all life and breath and all things;
  • Deut 32:8 : 8 When the Most High gave the nations their heritage, separating into groups the children of men, he had the limits of the peoples marked out, keeping in mind the number of the children of Israel.
  • Dan 4:17 : 17 This order is fixed by the watchers, and the decision is by the word of the holy ones: so that the living may be certain that the Most High is ruler over the kingdom of men, and gives it to any man at his pleasure, lifting up over it the lowest of men.
  • 2 Chr 6:18 : 18 But is it truly possible that God may be housed with men on earth? see, heaven and the heaven of heavens are not wide enough to be your resting-place: how much less this house which I have made:
  • Ps 7:17 : 17 I will give praise to the Lord for his righteousness; I will make a song to the name of the Lord Most High.
  • Ps 46:4 : 4 There is a river whose streams make glad the resting-place of God, the holy place of the tents of the Most High.
  • Ps 91:1 : 1 Happy is he whose resting-place is in the secret of the Lord, and under the shade of the wings of the Most High;
  • Ps 91:9 : 9 Because you have said, I am in the hands of the Lord, the Most High is my safe resting-place;
  • Ps 92:8 : 8 But you, O Lord, are on high for ever.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Acts 7:49-50
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    49 Heaven is the seat of my power, and earth is a resting-place for my feet: what sort of house will you make for me, says the Lord, or what is my place of rest?

    50 Did not my hand make all these things?

  • Acts 7:46-47
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    46 Who was pleasing to God; and he had a desire to make a holy tent for the God of Jacob.

    47 But Solomon was the builder of his house.

  • Acts 17:24-25
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    24 The God who made the earth and everything in it, he, being Lord of heaven and earth, is not housed in buildings made with hands;

    25 And he is not dependent on the work of men's hands, as if he had need of anything, for he himself gives to all life and breath and all things;

  • 1 Kgs 8:27
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    27 But is it truly possible that God may be housed on earth? see, heaven and the heaven of heavens are not wide enough to be your resting-place; how much less this house which I have made!

  • 2 Chr 6:18
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    18 But is it truly possible that God may be housed with men on earth? see, heaven and the heaven of heavens are not wide enough to be your resting-place: how much less this house which I have made:

  • Isa 66:1
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    1 The Lord says, Heaven is the seat of my power, and earth is the resting-place for my feet: what sort of house will you make for me, and what place will be my resting-place?

  • 1 Chr 17:4-6
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    4 Go and say to David my servant, The Lord says, You are not to make me a house for my living-place:

    5 For from the day when I took Israel up, till this day, I have had no house, but have gone from tent to tent, and from living-place to living-place.

    6 In all the places where I have gone with all Israel, did I ever say to any of the judges of Israel, whom I made the keepers of my people, Why have you not made for me a house of cedar?

  • 2 Chr 2:5-6
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    5 And the house which I am building is to be great, for our God is greater than all gods.

    6 But who may have strength enough to make a house for him, seeing that the heaven and the heaven of heavens are not wide enough to be his resting-place? who am I then to make a house for him? But I am building it only for the burning of perfume before him.

  • 2 Sam 7:5-7
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    5 Go and say to my servant David, The Lord says, Are you to be the builder of a house, a living-place for me?

    6 For from the day when I took the children of Israel up out of Egypt till this day, I have had no house, but have gone from place to place in a tent.

    7 In all the places where I went with all the children of Israel, did I ever say to any of the judges of Israel, to whom I gave the care of my people Israel, Why have you not made me a house of cedar?

  • 1 Kgs 8:13
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    13 So I have made for you a living-place, a house in which you may be for ever present.

  • 2 Chr 6:2
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    2 So I have made for you a living-place, a house in which you may be for ever present.

  • Heb 3:4
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    4 For every house has a builder; but the builder of all things is God.

  • 2 Chr 20:8
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    8 And they made it their living-place, building there a holy house for your name, and saying,

  • 2 Sam 7:27
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    27 For you, O Lord of armies, the God of Israel, have clearly said to your servant, I will make you the head of a family of kings: and so it has come into your servant's heart to make this prayer to you.

  • 2 Sam 7:2
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    2 The king said to Nathan the prophet, See now, I am living in a house of cedar, but the ark of God is housed inside the curtains of a tent.

  • 1 Chr 17:12
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    12 He will be the builder of my house, and I will make the seat of his authority certain for ever.

  • 2 Chr 7:16
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    16 For I have taken this house for myself and made it holy, so that my name may be there for ever; and my eyes and my heart will be there at all times.

  • 2 Chr 7:21
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    21 And this house will become a mass of broken walls, and everyone who goes by will be overcome with wonder, and will say, Why has the Lord done so to this land and to this house?

  • 2 Chr 6:5
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    5 From the day when I took my people out of the land of Egypt, no town in all the tribes of Israel has been marked out by me for the building of a house for the resting-place of my name; and I took no man to be a ruler over my people Israel;

  • Heb 8:2
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    2 As a servant of the holy things and of the true Tent, which was put up by God, not by man.

  • 1 Kgs 5:5
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    5 And so it is my purpose to make a house for the name of the Lord my God, as he said to David my father, Your son, whom I will make king in your place, will be the builder of a house for my name.

  • Acts 2:34
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    34 For David has not gone up into heaven, but says, himself, The Lord said to my Lord, Be seated at my right hand,

  • Ps 78:69
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    69 And he made his holy place like the high heaven, like the earth which is fixed by him for ever.

  • 2 Cor 5:1
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    1 For we are conscious that if this our tent of flesh is taken down, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal, in heaven.

  • 2 Chr 7:12
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    12 Now the Lord came to Solomon in a vision by night, and said to him, I have given ear to your prayer, and have taken this place for myself as a house where offerings are to be made.

  • 1 Chr 28:2
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    2 Then David the king got up and said, Give ear to me, my brothers and my people; it was my desire to put up a house, a resting-place for the ark of the Lord's agreement, and for the foot-rest of our God; and I had got material ready for the building of it.

  • 2 Chr 6:8-9
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    67%

    8 But the Lord said to David my father, You did well to have in your heart the desire to make a house for my name:

    9 But you yourself will not be the builder of the house; but your son, the offspring of your body, he it is who will put up a house for my name.

  • 1 Chr 22:7
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    7 And David said to Solomon, My son, it was my desire to put up a house for the name of the Lord my God.

  • 2 Sam 7:13
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    13 He will be the builder of a house for my name, and I will make the seat of his authority certain for ever.

  • Ezek 43:7
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    7 And he said to me, Son of man, this is the place where the seat of my power is and the resting-place of my feet, where I will be among the children of Israel for ever: and no longer will the people of Israel make my holy name unclean, they or their kings, by their loose ways and by the dead bodies of their kings;

  • 2 Cor 6:16
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    16 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.

  • Ps 68:16
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    16 Why are you looking with envy, you high hills, on the hill desired by God as his resting-place? truly, God will make it his house for ever.

  • Ps 26:8
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    8 Lord, your house has been dear to me, and the resting-place of your glory.

  • 1 Cor 3:16
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    16 Do you not see that you are God's holy house, and that the Spirit of God has his place in you?

  • 1 Kgs 8:19
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    19 But you yourself will not be the builder of my house; but your son, the offspring of your body, he it is who will put up a house for my name.

  • Ps 113:5
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    5 Who is like the Lord our God, who is seated on high,

  • 1 Chr 29:16
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    16 O Lord our God, all this store, which we have made ready for the building of a house for your holy name, comes from your hand and is yours.

  • 1 Kgs 3:2
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    2 But all this time the people were making their offerings in the high places, because no house had been put up to the name of the Lord till those days.

  • 1 Kgs 5:3
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    3 You have knowledge that David my father was not able to make a house for the name of the Lord his God, because of the wars which were round him on every side, till the Lord put all those who were against him under his feet.

  • Jer 7:11
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    11 Has this house, which is named by my name, become a hole of thieves to you? Truly I, even I, have seen it, says the Lord.

  • 1 Kgs 6:2
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    2 The house which Solomon made for the Lord was sixty cubits long, twenty cubits wide and thirty cubits high.