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Want to know what the Bible says about Temples? Here are 21 Bible verses about Temples from the Old and New Testaments of the Holy Bible, New International Version (NIV), sorted from the most relevant to the least relevant.

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1 Kings 8:27 NIV
“But will God really dwell on earth? The heavens, even the highest heaven, cannot contain you. How much less this temple I have built!
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2 Chronicles 2:6 NIV
But who is able to build a temple for him, since the heavens, even the highest heavens, cannot contain him? Who then am I to build a temple for him, except as a place to burn sacrifices before him?
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2 Chronicles 6:18 NIV
“But will God really dwell on earth with humans? The heavens, even the highest heavens, cannot contain you. How much less this temple I have built!
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Isaiah 66:1 NIV
This is what the Lord says:
“Heaven is my throne,
    and the earth is my footstool.
Where is the house you will build for me?
    Where will my resting place be?
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Matthew 12:6 NIV
I tell you that something greater than the temple is here.
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Matthew 18:20 NIV
For where two or three gather in my name, there am I with them.”
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Matthew 27:51 NIV
At that moment the curtain of the temple was torn in two from top to bottom. The earth shook, the rocks split
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Mark 15:38 NIV
The curtain of the temple was torn in two from top to bottom.
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Luke 21:5-6 NIV
5 Some of his disciples were remarking about how the temple was adorned with beautiful stones and with gifts dedicated to God. But Jesus said, 6 “As for what you see here, the time will come when not one stone will be left on another; every one of them will be thrown down.”
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Luke 23:45 NIV
for the sun stopped shining. And the curtain of the temple was torn in two.
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