Acts 17:24

World English Bible (2000)

The God who made the world and all things in it, he, being Lord of heaven and earth, doesn't dwell in temples made with hands,

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  • 1 Kgs 8:27 : 27 But will God in very deed dwell on the earth? Behold, heaven and the heaven of heavens can't contain you; how much less this house that I have built!
  • Matt 11:25 : 25 At that time, Jesus answered, "I thank you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that you hid these things from the wise and understanding, and revealed them to infants.
  • Acts 7:48 : 48 However, the Most High doesn't dwell in temples made with hands, as the prophet says,
  • Deut 10:14 : 14 Behold, to Yahweh your God belongs heaven and the heaven of heavens, the earth, with all that is therein.
  • Acts 4:24 : 24 When they heard it, they lifted up their voice to God with one accord, and said, "O Lord, you are God, who made the heaven, the earth, the sea, and all that is in them;
  • Acts 14:15 : 15 "Men, why are you doing these things? We also are men of like passions with you, and bring you good news, that you should turn from these vain things to the living God, who made the sky and the earth and the sea, and all that is in them;
  • Isa 66:1 : 1 Thus says Yahweh, "Heaven is my throne, and the earth is my footstool: what kind of house will you build to me? and what place shall be my rest?
  • Ps 115:16 : 16 The heavens are the heavens of Yahweh; but the earth has he given to the children of men.
  • 2 Chr 2:6 : 6 But who is able to build him a house, since heaven and the heaven of heavens can't contain him? who am I then, that I should build him a house, except just to burn incense before him?
  • 2 Chr 6:18 : 18 "But will God indeed dwell with men on the earth? Behold, heaven and the heaven of heavens can't contain you; how much less this house which I have built!
  • Isa 42:5 : 5 Thus says God Yahweh, he who created the heavens and stretched them out, he who spread out the earth and that which comes out of it, he who gives breath to its people and spirit to those who walk in it.
  • Jer 10:11 : 11 You shall say this to them: The gods that have not made the heavens and the earth, these shall perish from the earth, and from under the heavens.
  • Luke 10:21 : 21 In that same hour Jesus rejoiced in the Holy Spirit, and said, "I thank you, O Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that you have hidden these things from the wise and understanding, and revealed them to little children. Yes, Father, for so it was well-pleasing in your sight."
  • John 4:22-23 : 22 You worship that which you don't know. We worship that which we know; for salvation is from the Jews. 23 But the hour comes, and now is, when the true worshippers will worship the Father in spirit and truth, for the Father seeks such to be his worshippers.
  • Rev 20:11 : 11 I saw a great white throne, and him who sat on it, from whose face the earth and the heaven fled away. There was found no place for them.
  • Jer 32:17 : 17 Ah Lord Yahweh! Behold, you have made the heavens and the earth by your great power and by your outstretched arm; there is nothing too hard for you,
  • Dan 4:35 : 35 All the inhabitants of the earth are reputed as nothing; and he does according to his will in the army of heaven, and among the inhabitants of the earth; and none can stay his hand, or ask him, What are you doing?
  • Zech 12:1 : 1 An oracle. The word of Yahweh concerning Israel. Yahweh, who stretches out the heavens, and lays the foundation of the earth, and forms the spirit of man within him says:
  • Matt 5:34 : 34 but I tell you, don't swear at all: neither by heaven, for it is the throne of God;
  • Isa 45:18 : 18 For thus says Yahweh who created the heavens, the God who formed the earth and made it, who established it and didn't create it a waste, who formed it to be inhabited: "I am Yahweh; and there is no other.
  • Ps 24:1 : 1 The earth is Yahweh's, with its fullness; the world, and those who dwell therein.
  • Ps 146:5 : 5 Happy is he who has the God of Jacob for his help, whose hope is in Yahweh, his God:
  • Ps 148:13 : 13 let them praise the name of Yahweh, for his name alone is exalted. His glory is above the earth and the heavens.
  • Isa 40:12 : 12 Who has measured the waters in the hollow of his hand, and marked off the sky with his span, and calculated the dust of the earth in a measure, and weighed the mountains in scales, and the hills in a balance?
  • Isa 40:28 : 28 Haven't you known? Haven't you heard? The everlasting God, Yahweh, The Creator of the ends of the earth, doesn't faint. He isn't weary. His understanding is unsearchable.
  • 2 Kgs 19:15 : 15 Hezekiah prayed before Yahweh, and said, "Yahweh, the God of Israel, who sit [above] the cherubim, you are the God, even you alone, of all the kingdoms of the earth. You have made heaven and earth.
  • Gen 14:19 : 19 He blessed him, and said, "Blessed be Abram of God Most High, possessor of heaven and earth:
  • Gen 14:22 : 22 Abram said to the king of Sodom, "I have lifted up my hand to Yahweh, God Most High, possessor of heaven and earth,
  • John 1:1 : 1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
  • Jer 23:24 : 24 Can any hide himself in secret places so that I shall not see him? says Yahweh. Don't I fill heaven and earth? says Yahweh.
  • Acts 17:26-28 : 26 He made from one blood every nation of men to dwell on all the surface of the earth, having determined appointed seasons, and the boundaries of their dwellings, 27 that they should seek the Lord, if perhaps they might reach out for him and find him, though he is not far from each one of us. 28 'For in him we live, and move, and have our being.' As some of your own poets have said, 'For we are also his offspring.'
  • Heb 1:2 : 2 has at the end of these days spoken to us by his Son, whom he appointed heir of all things, through whom also he made the worlds.
  • Heb 3:4 : 4 For every house is built by someone; but he who built all things is God.

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    25neither is he served by men's hands, as though he needed anything, seeing he himself gives to all life and breath, and all things.

    26He made from one blood every nation of men to dwell on all the surface of the earth, having determined appointed seasons, and the boundaries of their dwellings,

    27that they should seek the Lord, if perhaps they might reach out for him and find him, though he is not far from each one of us.

    28'For in him we live, and move, and have our being.' As some of your own poets have said, 'For we are also his offspring.'

    29Being then the offspring of God, we ought not to think that the Divine Nature is like gold, or silver, or stone, engraved by art and design of man.

    30The times of ignorance therefore God overlooked. But now he commands that all people everywhere should repent,

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    47But Solomon built him a house.

    48However, the Most High doesn't dwell in temples made with hands, as the prophet says,

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    50Didn't my hand make all these things?'

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    22Paul stood in the middle of the Areopagus, and said, "You men of Athens, I perceive that you are very religious in all things.

    23For as I passed along, and observed the objects of your worship, I found also an altar with this inscription: 'TO AN UNKNOWN GOD.' What therefore you worship in ignorance, this I announce to you.

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    27But will God in very deed dwell on the earth? Behold, heaven and the heaven of heavens can't contain you; how much less this house that I have built!

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    4For every house is built by someone; but he who built all things is God.

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    16Don't you know that you are a temple of God, and that God's Spirit lives in you?

    17If anyone destroys the temple of God, God will destroy him; for God's temple is holy, which you are.

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    18"But will God indeed dwell with men on the earth? Behold, heaven and the heaven of heavens can't contain you; how much less this house which I have built!

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    26For all the gods of the peoples are idols, but Yahweh made the heavens.

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    15"Men, why are you doing these things? We also are men of like passions with you, and bring you good news, that you should turn from these vain things to the living God, who made the sky and the earth and the sea, and all that is in them;

    16who in the generations gone by allowed all the nations to walk in their own ways.

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    5For all the gods of the peoples are idols, but Yahweh made the heavens.

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    24When they heard it, they lifted up their voice to God with one accord, and said, "O Lord, you are God, who made the heaven, the earth, the sea, and all that is in them;

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    4Therefore concerning the eating of things sacrificed to idols, we know that no idol is anything in the world, and that there is no other God but one.

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    16What 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."

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    19because that which is known of God is revealed in them, for God revealed it to them.

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    3But our God is in the heavens. He does whatever he pleases.

    4Their idols are silver and gold, the work of men's hands.

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    1For we know that if the earthly house of our tent is dissolved, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal, in the heavens.

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    16Yahweh our God, all this store that we have prepared to build you a house for your holy name comes from your hand, and is all your own.

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    10And, "You, Lord, in the beginning, laid the foundation of the earth. The heavens are the works of your hands.

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    18All his works are known to God from eternity.'

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    26for "the earth is the Lord's, and its fullness."

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    24God is spirit, and those who worship him must worship in spirit and truth."

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    14Behold, to Yahweh your God belongs heaven and the heaven of heavens, the earth, with all that is therein.

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    26You see and hear, that not at Ephesus alone, but almost throughout all Asia, this Paul has persuaded and turned away many people, saying that they are no gods, that are made with hands.

  • Rom 1:23
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    23and traded the glory of the incorruptible God for the likeness of an image of corruptible man, and of birds, and four-footed animals, and creeping things.

  • Ps 102:25
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    25Of old, you laid the foundation of the earth. The heavens are the work of your hands.

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    21He who swears by the temple, swears by it, and by him who was living in it.

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    15The idols of the nations are silver and gold, the work of men's hands.

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

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    19Or don't you 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,

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    6But who is able to build him a house, since heaven and the heaven of heavens can't contain him? who am I then, that I should build him a house, except just to burn incense before him?