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The Temple

Stone, body, congregation — every tradition stretches the word 'temple' from a building to a community to a self.

Judaism

  • "But will God indeed dwell on the earth? behold, the heaven and heaven of heavens cannot contain thee; how much less this house that I have builded?"

    1 Kings 8:27
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  • "One thing have I desired of the LORD... that I may dwell in the house of the LORD all the days of my life, to behold the beauty of the LORD, and to enquire in his temple."

    Psalms 27:4
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Christianity

  • "But he spake of the temple of his body."

    John 2:21
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  • "Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you?"

    1 Corinthians 3:16
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  • "And I saw no temple therein: for the Lord God Almighty and the Lamb are the temple of it."

    Revelation 21:22
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