Acts 7:48

WEB

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

KJV

⁴⁸Howbeit the most High dwelleth not in temples made with hands; as saith the prophet,

BSB

⁴⁸However, the Most High does not dwell in houses made by human hands. As the prophet says:

FBV

⁴⁸Of course the Almighty doesn't live in temples we make. As the prophet said,

Extra References

Acts 17:24-25

²⁴The 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. ²⁵He isn’t served by men’s hands, as though he needed anything, seeing he himself gives to all life and breath and all things.

Isaiah 66:1-2

¹The LORD says: “Heaven is my throne, and the earth is my footstool. What kind of house will you build to me? Where will I rest? ²For my hand has made all these things, and so all these things came to be,” says the LORD: “but I will look to this man, even to he who is poor and of a contrite spirit, and who trembles at my word.

1 Kings 8:27

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!

2 Chronicles 2:5-6

⁵“The house which I am building will be great, for our God is greater than all gods. 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?

2 Chronicles 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!

Psalms 91:9

⁹Because you have made the LORD your refuge, and the Most High your dwelling place,

Psalms 91:1

¹He who dwells in the secret place of the Most High will rest in the shadow of the Almighty.

Psalms 92:8

⁸But you, LORD, are on high forever more.

Daniel 4:17

¹⁷“‘The sentence is by the decree of the watchers and the demand by the word of the holy ones, to the intent that the living may know that the Most High rules in the kingdom of men, and gives it to whomever he will, and sets up over it the lowest of men.’

Daniel 4:24-25

²⁴“This is the interpretation, O king, and it is the decree of the Most High, which has come on my lord the king: ²⁵You will be driven from men and your dwelling shall be with the animals of the field. You will be made to eat grass as oxen, and will be wet with the dew of the sky, and seven times shall pass over you, until you know that the Most High rules in the kingdom of men, and gives it to whomever he will.