August 17: 1 Chronicles 22:5; 1 Corinthians 3:16–17; 1 Corinthians 6:19–20; 2 Corinthians 6:16; Ephesians 2:19–22; 1 Peter 2:5; Proverbs 8:22–23; Proverbs 8:27–30; Isaiah 43:13; Colossians 1:17–18; Hebrews 12:2; Revelation 3:14; Revelation 13:8 - a podcast by Crossway

“The house that is to be built for the Lord must be exceedingly magnificent.”

You yourselves like living stones are being built up as a spiritual house.—Do you not know that you are God's temple and that God's Spirit dwells in you? If anyone destroys God's temple, God will destroy him. For God's temple is holy, and you are that temple.—Do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit within you, whom you have from God? You are not your own, for you were bought with a price. So glorify God in your body.—What agreement has the temple of God with idols? For we are the temple of the living God; as God said, “I will make my dwelling among them and walk among them, and I will be their God, and they shall be my people.”—You are… built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Christ Jesus himself being the cornerstone, in whom the whole structure, being joined together, grows into a holy temple in the Lord. In him you also are being built together into a dwelling place for God by the Spirit.

1 Chronicles 22:5 (Listen)

5 For David said, “Solomon my son is young and inexperienced, and the house that is to be built for the LORD must be exceedingly magnificent, of fame and glory throughout all lands. I will therefore make preparation for it.” So David provided materials in great quantity before his death.

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1 Corinthians 3:16–17 (Listen)

16 Do you not know that you¹ are God’s temple and that God’s Spirit dwells in you? 17 If anyone destroys God’s temple, God will destroy him. For God’s temple is holy, and you are that temple.

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1 Corinthians 6:19–20 (Listen)

19 Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit within you, whom you have from God? You are not your own, 20 for you were bought with a price. So glorify God in your body.

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2 Corinthians 6:16 (Listen)

16 What agreement has the temple of God with idols? For we are the temple of the living God; as God said,

  “I will make my dwelling among them and walk among them,
    and I will be their God,
    and they shall be my people.

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Ephesians 2:19–22 (Listen)

19 So then you are no longer strangers and aliens,¹ but you are fellow citizens with the saints and members of the household of God, 20 built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Christ Jesus himself being the cornerstone, 21 in whom the whole structure, being joined together, grows into a holy temple in the Lord. 22 In him you also are being built together into a dwelling place for God by² the Spirit.

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1 Peter 2:5 (Listen)

5 you yourselves like living stones are being built up as a spiritual house, to be a holy priesthood, to offer spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.

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He is before all things.

“The words of the Amen,… the beginning of God's creation.”—He is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead, that in everything he might be preeminent.

“The Lord possessed me at the beginning of his work, the first of his acts of old. Ages ago I was set up, at the first, before the beginning of the earth…. When he established the heavens, I was there; when he drew a circle on the face of the deep, when he made firm the skies above, when he established the fountains of the deep, when he assigned to the sea its limit, so that the waters might not transgress his command,… and I was daily his delight, rejoicing before him always.”—“Also henceforth I am he.”

The Lamb that was slain.—The founder and perfecter of our faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is seated at the right hand of the throne of God.

Proverbs 8:22–23 (Listen)

22   “The LORD possessed¹ me at the beginning of his work,²
    the first of his acts of old.
23   Ages ago I was set up,
    at the first, before the beginning of the earth.

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Proverbs 8:27–30 (Listen)

27   When he established the heavens, I was there;
    when he drew a circle on the face of the deep,
28   when he made firm the skies above,
    when he established¹ the fountains of the deep,
29   when he assigned to the sea its limit,
    so that the waters might not transgress his command,
  when he marked out the foundations of the earth,
30     then I was beside him, like a master workman,
  and I was daily his² delight,
    rejoicing before him always,

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Isaiah 43:13 (Listen)

13   Also henceforth I am he;
    there is none who can deliver from my hand;
    I work, and who can turn it back?”

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Colossians 1:17–18 (Listen)

17 And he is before all things, and in him all things hold together. 18 And he is the head of the body, the church. He is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead, that in everything he might be preeminent.

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Hebrews 12:2 (Listen)

2 looking to Jesus, the founder and perfecter of our faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is seated at the right hand of the throne of God.

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Revelation 3:14 (Listen)

To the Church in Laodicea

14 “And to the angel of the church in Laodicea write: ‘The words of the Amen, the faithful and true witness, the beginning of God’s creation.

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Revelation 13:8 (Listen)

8 and all who dwell on earth will worship it, everyone whose name has not been written before the foundation of the world in the book of life of the Lamb who was slain.

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