10 One day in your temple

is better than a thousand

anywhere else.

I would rather serve

in your house,

than live in the homes

of the wicked.

4 I ask only one thing, Lord:

Let me live in your house

every day of my life

to see how wonderful you are

and to pray in your temple.

4 You bless your chosen ones,

and you invite them

to live near you

in your temple.

We will enjoy your house,

the sacred temple.

1 It made me glad when they said,

"Let’s go to the house

of the Lord!"

6 Your kindness and love

will always be with me

each day of my life,

and I will live forever

in your house, Lord.

8 But I am like an olive tree

growing in God’s house,

and I can count on his love

forever and ever.

9 *My love for your house

burns in me like a fire,

and when others insult you,

they insulted me as well.

12 Jesus went into the temple and chased out everyone who was selling or buying. He turned over the tables of the moneychangers and the benches of the ones who were selling doves. 13 *He told them, "The Scriptures say, ‘My house should be called a place of worship.’ But you have turned it into a place where robbers hide."

13 *Not long before the Jewish festival of Passover, Jesus went to Jerusalem. 14 There he found people selling cattle, sheep, and doves in the temple. He also saw moneychangers sitting at their tables. 15 So he took some rope and made a whip. Then he chased everyone out of the temple, together with their sheep and cattle. He turned over the tables of the moneychangers and scattered their coins.

16 Jesus said to the people who had been selling doves, "Get those doves out of here! Don’t make my Father’s house a marketplace."

17 *The disciples then remembered that the Scriptures say, "My love for your house burns in me like a fire."

19 *You surely know that your body is a temple where the Holy Spirit lives. The Spirit is in you and is a gift from God. You are no longer your own.

15 so if I am delayed, you will know how everyone who belongs to God’s family ought to behave. After all, the church of the living God is the strong foundation of truth.

6 But Christ is the Son in charge of God’s people. And we are those people, if we keep on being brave and don’t lose hope.

44 *The tent where our ancestors worshiped God was with them in the desert. This was the same tent that God had commanded Moses to make. And it was made like the model that Moses had seen. 45 *Later it was given to our ancestors, and they took it with them when they went with Joshua. They carried the tent along as they took over the land from those people that God had chased out for them. Our ancestors used this tent until the time of King David. 46 *He pleased God and asked him if he could build a house of worship for the people* of Israel. 47 *And it was finally King Solomon who built a house for God.*

48 But the Most High God doesn’t live in houses made by humans. It is just as the prophet said, when he spoke for the Lord,

49 *"Heaven is my throne,

and the earth

is my footstool.

What kind of house

will you build for me?

In what place will I rest?

50 I have made everything."

1 **The Lord said:

Heaven is my throne;

the earth is my footstool.

What kind of house

could you build for me?

In what place will I rest?

2 I have made everything;

that’s how it all came to be.*

I, the Lord, have spoken.

The people I treasure most

are the humble—

they depend only on me

and tremble when I speak.

16 Jacob woke up suddenly and thought, "The Lord is in this place, and I didn’t even know it." 17 Then Jacob became frightened and said, "What a frightening place! It must be the house of God and the gateway to heaven."