2 Corinthians 6:16

WEB

¹⁶What agreement does a temple of God have with idols? For you are a temple of the living God. Even as God said, “I will dwell in them and walk in them. I will be their God and they will be my people.”

KJV

¹⁶And 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.

BSB

¹⁶What agreement can exist between the temple of God and idols? For we are the temple of the living God. As God has said: “I will dwell with them and walk among them, and I will be their God, and they will be My people.”

FBV

¹⁶What compromise could the 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 walk among them. I will be their God, and they will be my people.”

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References

Leviticus 26:12

¹²I will walk among you, and will be your God, and you will be my people.

Jeremiah 32:38

³⁸Then they will be my people, and I will be their God.

Ezekiel 37:27

²⁷My tent also will be with them. I will be their God, and they will be my people.

Extra References

Revelation 21:3

³I heard a loud voice out of heaven saying, “Behold, God’s dwelling is with people; and he will dwell with them, and they will be his people, and God himself will be with them as their God.

Exodus 29:45

⁴⁵I will dwell among the children of Israel, and will be their God.

Hebrews 8:10

¹⁰“For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days,” says the Lord: “I will put my laws into their mind; I will also write them on their heart. I will be their God, and they will be my people.

Leviticus 26:12

¹²I will walk among you, and will be your God, and you will be my people.

Jeremiah 32:38

³⁸Then they will be my people, and I will be their God.

Ezekiel 37:26-27

²⁶Moreover I will make a covenant of peace with them. It will be an everlasting covenant with them. I will place them, multiply them, and will set my sanctuary among them forever more. ²⁷My tent also will be with them. I will be their God, and they will be my people.

1 Corinthians 3:16-17

¹⁶Don’t you know that you are God’s temple and that God’s Spirit lives in you? ¹⁷If anyone destroys God’s temple, God will destroy him; for God’s temple is holy, which you are.

Ezekiel 11:20

²⁰that they may walk in my statutes, and keep my ordinances, and do them. They will be my people, and I will be their God.

Jeremiah 31:33

³³“But this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days,” says the LORD: “I will put my law in their inward parts, and I will write it in their heart. I will be their God, and they shall be my people.

Zechariah 2:10-11

¹⁰Sing and rejoice, daughter of Zion! For behold, I come and I will dwell within you,’ says the LORD. ¹¹Many nations shall join themselves to the LORD in that day, and shall be my people; and I will dwell among you, and you shall know that the LORD of Armies has sent me to you.