10 One day in your courts is better than a thousand anywhere else. I’d rather stand as a doorkeeper in the house of my God than live comfortably in the homes of the wicked.

4 I only ask the Lord for one thing: I just want to live in the house of the Lord throughout my life, contemplating the Lord’s goodness and thinking about his Temple.

4 Happy are those you choose to keep close to you, those who live in your courts! We are delighted with the blessings we receive in your house, your holy Temple!

1 I was so happy when they said to me, "Let’s go to the house of the Lord."

6 I’m absolutely certain that your goodness and trustworthy love will be with me all through my life, and I will live in the house of the Lord forever.

8 But I’m like an olive tree growing strongly in God’s house. I trust in God’s unfailing love forever and ever.

9 My devotion for your house is burning me up inside; the insults of those who insulted you have fallen on me.

12 Jesus went into the Temple, and threw out all the people buying and selling. He overturned the tables of the money-changers and the chairs of the dove-sellers. 13 He told them, "Scripture says, ‘My house shall be called a house of prayer,’* but you’ve turned it into a den of thieves."

13 Since it was almost time for the Jewish Passover, Jesus went on to Jerusalem. 14 In the Temple he found people selling cattle, sheep, and doves; and money-changers sitting at their tables. 15 He made a whip out of cords and drove everyone out of the Temple, along with the sheep and cattle, scattering coins of the money-changers and turning over their tables. 16 He ordered the dove-sellers, "Take these things out of here! Don’t turn my Father’s house into a market!" 17 His disciples remembered the Scripture that says, "My devotion for your house is like a fire burning inside me!"*

19 Don’t you know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit that is within you, that you received from God?

15 if I’m delayed you’ll know how people should behave themselves in God’s house. This is the church of the living God, the support pillar and foundation of the truth.

6 But Christ is a son, in charge of God’s house. And we are God’s house as long as we hold on with confidence to the hope we boast we believe in.

44 Our ancestors had the Tabernacle of Testimony* in the desert. God had told Moses how he should make it following the blueprint he had seen. 45 Later on, our forefathers carried it with them when they went in with Joshua to occupy the land taken from the nations the Lord drove out before them. It stayed there until the time of David. 46 David found favor with God and asked to make a more permanent home for the God of Jacob. 47 But it was Solomon who built a Temple* for him. 48 Of course the Almighty doesn’t live in temples we make. As the prophet said, 49 ‘Heaven is my throne, and the earth the place I put my feet. What kind of dwelling could you build for me?’ the Lord asks. ‘What bed could you make for me to rest in? 50 Didn’t I make everything?’*

1 This is what the Lord says: Heaven is my throne, and the earth is where I place my feet. So where will this house be that you’re going to build for me? Where will I lie down to rest? 2 I made everything; that’s how it all came into existence, says the Lord. Those I look favorably on are humble and repentant, and they tremble when I speak.

16 When Jacob woke up he said to himself, "The Lord is right here, in this place, and I didn’t realize it!"* 17 He became frightened and said, "This is a scary place! It must be the house of God and the entrance to heaven."