Acts 7:49

Bible in Basic English (1941)

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?

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  • Ps 11:4 : 4 The Lord is in his holy Temple, the Lord's seat is in heaven; his eyes are watching and testing the children of men.
  • Isa 66:1 : 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?
  • Jer 23:24 : 24 In what secret place may a man take cover without my seeing him? says the Lord. Is there any place in heaven or earth where I am not? says the Lord.
  • Matt 5:34-35 : 34 But I say to you, Take no oaths at all: not by the heaven, because it is the seat of God; 35 Or by the earth, because it is the resting-place for his foot; or by Jerusalem, because it is the town of the great King.
  • Rev 3:21 : 21 To him who overcomes I will give a place with me on my high seat, even as I overcame, and am seated with my Father on his high seat.
  • 1 Kgs 22:19 : 19 And he said, Give ear now to the word of the Lord: I saw the Lord seated on his seat of power, with all the army of heaven in their places round him at his right hand and at his left.
  • Matt 23:22 : 22 And he who takes an oath by heaven, takes it by the seat of God, and by him who is seated on it.
  • Matt 24:2 : 2 But he, answering, said to them, See you not all these things? truly I say to you that here there will not be one stone resting on another, which will not be pulled down.
  • John 4:21 : 21 Jesus said to her, Woman, take my word for this; the time is coming when you will not give worship to the Father on this mountain or in Jerusalem.
  • Mal 1:11 : 11 For, from the coming up of the sun till its going down, my name is great among the Gentiles; and in every place the smell of burning flesh is offered to my name, and a clean offering: for my name is great among the Gentiles, says the Lord of armies.
  • Jer 7:4-9 : 4 Put no faith in false words, saying, The Temple of the Lord, the Temple of the Lord, the Temple of the Lord, are these. 5 For if your ways and your doings are truly changed for the better; if you truly give right decisions between a man and his neighbour; 6 If you are not cruel to the man from a strange country, and to the child without a father, and to the widow, and do not put the upright to death in this place, or go after other gods, causing damage to yourselves: 7 Then I will let you go on living in this place, in the land which I gave to your fathers in the past and for ever. 8 See, you put your faith in false words which are of no profit. 9 Will you take the goods of others, put men to death, and be untrue to your wives, and take false oaths, and have perfumes burned to the Baal, and go after other gods which are strange to you; 10 And come and take your place before me in this house, which is named by my name, and say, We have been made safe; so that you may do all these disgusting things? 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.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Isa 66:1
    91%

    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?

  • Acts 7:47-48
    2 verses
    86%

    47 But Solomon was the builder of his house.

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

  • Acts 7:50
    80%

    50 Did not my hand make all these things?

  • 1 Kgs 8:27
    79%

    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
    77%

    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:

  • Acts 17:24
    76%

    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;

  • 2 Sam 7:5-7
    3 verses
    75%

    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?

  • 2 Chr 2:5-6
    2 verses
    75%

    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.

  • 1 Chr 17:4-6
    3 verses
    74%

    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?

  • 1 Chr 17:12
    73%

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

  • Ezek 43:7
    73%

    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;

  • Matt 5:35
    72%

    35 Or by the earth, because it is the resting-place for his foot; or by Jerusalem, because it is the town of the great King.

  • 2 Sam 7:13
    72%

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

  • Ps 89:11
    72%

    11 Yours are the heavens, and the earth is yours; you have made the world, and everything which is in it.

  • Ps 132:14
    72%

    14 This is my rest for ever: here will I ever be; for this is my desire.

  • Hag 1:8
    72%

    8 Go up to the hills and get wood and put up the house; and I will take pleasure in it and be honoured, says the Lord.

  • Isa 37:16
    71%

    16 O Lord of armies, the God of Israel, seated between the winged ones, you only are the God of all the kingdoms of the earth; you have made heaven and earth.

  • 2 Chr 6:2
    71%

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

  • 1 Kgs 5:5
    71%

    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.

  • 1 Chr 28:2
    71%

    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.

  • 1 Kgs 8:13
    71%

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

  • Ps 78:69
    70%

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

  • Isa 40:22
    70%

    22 It is he who is seated over the arch of the earth, and the people in it are as small as locusts; by him the heavens are stretched out like an arch, and made ready like a tent for a living-place.

  • Amos 9:6
    70%

    6 It is he who makes his rooms in the heaven, basing his arch on the earth; whose voice goes out to the waters of the sea, and sends them flowing over the face of the earth; the Lord is his name.

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    70%

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  • 2 Sam 7:27
    70%

    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.

  • Heb 1:13
    70%

    13 But of which of the angels has he said at any time, Take your seat at my right hand till I put all those who are against you under your feet?

  • Matt 22:44
    70%

    44 The Lord said to my Lord, Be seated at my right hand, till I put under your feet all those who are against you?

  • 2 Chr 7:16
    70%

    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.

  • Acts 2:34-35
    2 verses
    70%

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

    35 Till I put all those who are against you under your feet.

  • Jer 17:12
    70%

    12 A seat of glory, placed on high from the first, is our holy place.

  • Ps 68:16
    70%

    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 132:7
    69%

    7 Let us go into his tent; let us give worship at his feet.

  • Ps 26:8
    69%

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

  • 1 Kgs 5:3
    69%

    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.

  • 2 Chr 7:21
    69%

    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?

  • Jer 7:11
    69%

    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.

  • Ps 11:4
    69%

    4 The Lord is in his holy Temple, the Lord's seat is in heaven; his eyes are watching and testing the children of men.

  • Ps 115:16
    69%

    16 The heavens are the Lord's; but the earth he has given to the children of men.

  • 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;

  • 1 Chr 29:16
    68%

    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.

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    5 Who is like the Lord our God, who is seated on high,

  • 2 Chr 6:7
    68%

    7 Now it was in the heart of my father David to put up a house for the name of the Lord, the God of Israel.