Scripture Folios
Genesis 3:8 Then the man and his wife heard the voice of the Lord God walking in the garden in the breeze of the day, and they hid themselves from the presence of the Lord God among the trees of the garden. Chapter Related Genesis 28:16–17 When Jacob woke up, he said, “Surely the Lord is in this place, and I was unaware of it.” And he was afraid and said, “How awesome is this place! This is none other than the house of God; this is the gate of heaven!” Chapter Related Exodus 25:8 And they are to make a sanctuary for Me, so that I may dwell among them. Chapter Related Exodus 29:45–46 Then I will dwell among the Israelites and be their God. And they will know that I am the Lord their God, who brought them out of the land of Egypt so that I might dwell among them. I am the Lord their God. Chapter Related Exodus 40:34 Then the cloud covered the Tent of Meeting, and the glory of the Lord filled the tabernacle. Chapter Related Leviticus 26:11–12 And I will make My dwelling place among you, and My soul will not despise you. I will walk among you and be your God, and you will be My people. Chapter Related 1 Kings 8:27 But will God indeed dwell upon the earth? The heavens, even the highest heavens, cannot contain You, much less this temple I have built. Chapter Related Psalm 90:1 Lord, You have been our dwelling place through all generations. Chapter Related Psalm 91:1 He who dwells in the shelter of the Most High will abide in the shadow of the Almighty. Chapter Related Isaiah 57:15 For thus says the One who is high and lifted up, who inhabits eternity, whose name is Holy: “I dwell in a high and holy place, and with the oppressed and humble in spirit, to restore the spirit of the lowly and revive the heart of the contrite.” Chapter Related Ezekiel 48:35 “The perimeter of the city will be 18,000 cubits, and from that day on the name of the city will be: THE Lord IS THERE.” Chapter Related Matthew 1:23 “Behold, the virgin will be with child and will give birth to a son, and they will call Him Immanuel” (which means, “God with us”). Chapter Related John 1:14 The Word became flesh and made His dwelling among us. We have seen His glory, the glory of the one and only Son from the Father, full of grace and truth. Chapter Related John 14:2–3 In My Father’s house are many rooms. If it were not so, would I have told you that I am going there to prepare a place for you? And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come back and welcome you into My presence, so that you also may be where I am. Chapter Related John 14:10 Do you not believe that I am in the Father and the Father is in Me? The words I say to you, I do not speak on My own. Instead, it is the Father dwelling in Me, performing His works. Chapter Related John 14:23 Jesus replied, “If anyone loves Me, he will keep My word. My Father will love him, and We will come to him and make Our home with him.” Chapter Related John 15:4 Remain in Me, and I will remain in you. Just as no branch can bear fruit by itself unless it remains in the vine, neither can you bear fruit unless you remain in Me. Chapter Related 2 Corinthians 6:16 What agreement can exist between the temple of God and idols? For we are the temple of the living God. As God has said: “I will dwell with them and walk among them, and I will be their God, and they will be My people.” Chapter Related Galatians 2:20 I have been crucified with Christ, and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. The life I live in the body, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself up for me. Chapter Related Ephesians 2:21–22 In Him the whole building is fitted together and grows into a holy temple in the Lord. And in Him you too are being built together into a dwelling place for God in His Spirit. Chapter Related Ephesians 3:17–19 so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith. Then you, being rooted and grounded in love, will have power, together with all the saints, to comprehend the length and width and height and depth of the love of Christ, and to know this love that surpasses knowledge, that you may be filled with all the fullness of God. Chapter Related Colossians 2:9 For in Christ all the fullness of the Deity dwells in bodily form. Chapter Related 1 John 4:16 And we have come to know and believe the love that God has for us. God is love; whoever abides in love abides in God, and God in him. Chapter Related Revelation 3:20 Behold, I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears My voice and opens the door, I will come in and dine with him, and he with Me. Chapter Related Revelation 21:2–3 I saw the holy city, the new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband. And I heard a loud voice from the throne saying: “Behold, the dwelling place of God is with man, and He will dwell with them. They will be His people, and God Himself will be with them as their God.” Chapter Related Revelation 21:22 But I saw no temple in the city, because the Lord God Almighty and the Lamb are its temple. Chapter Related
In Eden God walks in the garden, and the man hides. The rest of the Bible is God coming closer. He asks for a sanctuary so that he may dwell among his people, and when the work is finished his glory fills the tent. Moses turns it around: Lord, you have been our dwelling place. Solomon knows the highest heavens cannot contain him; Isaiah hears where he chooses to live anyway: with the humble and lowly in spirit. Then the Word becomes flesh and, in John’s Greek, pitches his tent among us. Jesus speaks of many rooms in his Father’s house, and a few verses later uses the same word for the home he and the Father will make with anyone who loves him. Christ lives in Paul, and the church is built together into a dwelling for God. Jacob woke and said, “Surely the Lord is in this place, and I was unaware of it.” The Bible ends with nothing left to be unaware of. The dwelling place of God is with man, and the city needs no temple.