Verse 48

Yet the Most High does not live in houses made by human hands, as the prophet says,

Referenced Verses

  • 1 Kgs 8:27 : 27 “God does not really live on the earth! Look, if the sky and the highest heaven cannot contain you, how much less this temple I have built!
  • 2 Chr 2:5-6 : 5 I will build a great temple, for our God is greater than all gods. 6 Of course, who can really build a temple for him, since the sky and the highest heavens cannot contain him? Who am I that I should build him a temple! It will really be only a place to offer sacrifices before him.
  • Isa 66:1-2 : 1 This is what the LORD says:“The heavens are my throne and the earth is my footstool. Where then is the house you will build for me? Where is the place where I will rest? 2 My hand made them; that is how they came to be,” says the LORD. I show special favor to the humble and contrite, who respect what I have to say.
  • Acts 17:24-25 : 24 The God who made the world and everything in it, who is Lord of heaven and earth, does not live in temples made by human hands, 25 nor is he served by human hands, as if he needed anything, because he himself gives life and breath and everything to everyone.
  • Deut 32:8 : 8 When the Most High gave the nations their inheritance, when he divided up humankind, he set the boundaries of the peoples, according to the number of the heavenly assembly.
  • Dan 4:17 : 17 This announcement is by the decree of the sentinels; this decision is by the pronouncement of the holy ones, so that those who are alive may understand that the Most High has authority over human kingdoms, and he bestows them on whomever he wishes. He establishes over them even the lowliest of human beings.’
  • 2 Chr 6:18 : 18 “God does not really live with humankind on the earth! Look, if the sky and the highest heaven cannot contain you, how much less this temple I have built!
  • Ps 7:17 : 17 I will thank the LORD for his justice; I will sing praises to the LORD Most High!
  • Ps 46:4 : 4 The river’s channels bring joy to the city of God, the special, holy dwelling place of the Most High.
  • Ps 91:1 : 1 As for you, the one who lives in the shelter of the Most High, and resides in the protective shadow of the Sovereign One–
  • Ps 91:9 : 9 For you have taken refuge in the LORD, my shelter, the Most High.
  • Ps 92:8 : 8 But you, O LORD, reign forever!