However, the Most High doesn’t dwell in temples made with hands, as the prophet says,
THE SURROUNDING PASSAGE
Acts 7:48 in context
Acts 7:45–51
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which also our fathers, in their turn, brought in with Joshua when they entered into the possession of the nations whom God drove out before the face of our fathers to the days of David,
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who found favor in the sight of God, and asked to find a habitation for the God of Jacob.
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But Solomon built him a house.
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However, the Most High doesn’t dwell in temples made with hands, as the prophet says,
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‘heaven is my throne,
and the earth a footstool for my feet.
What kind of house will you build me?’ says the Lord.
‘Or what is the place of my rest?
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Didn’t my hand make all these things?’
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“You stiff-necked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, you always resist the Holy Spirit! As your fathers did, so you do.
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