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1 Corinthians 3 16-1 Corinthians 3 17
Don’t you know that you yourselves are God’s temple? Don’t you know that God’s Spirit lives among you?If anyone destroys God’s temple, God will destroy that person. God’s temple is holy. And you all together are that temple.
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2 Corinthians 6 16
How can the temple of the true God and the statues of other gods agree? We are the temple of the living God. God has said,“ I will live with them. I will walk among them. I will be their God. And they will be my people.”( Leviticus 26:12; Jeremiah 32:38; Ezekiel 37:27)
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Ephesians 4:13-16
That will continue until we all become one in the faith. We will also become one in the knowledge of God’s Son. Then we will be grown up in the faith. We will receive everything that Christ has for us.We will no longer be babies in the faith. We won’t be like ships tossed around by the waves. We won’t be blown here and there by every new teaching. We won’t be blown around by cleverness and tricks. Certain people use them to hide their evil plans.Instead, we will speak the truth in love. So we will grow up in every way to become the body of Christ. Christ is the head of the body.He makes the whole body grow and build itself up in love. Under the control of Christ, each part of the body does its work. It supports the other parts. In that way, the body is joined and held together.
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1 Corinthians 3 9
We work together to serve God. You are like God’s field. You are like his building.
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Psalms 93:5
Your laws do not change, Lord. Your temple will be holy for all time to come.
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Exodus 26:1-37
“ Make ten curtains out of finely twisted linen for the holy tent. Make them with blue, purple and bright red yarn. Have a skilled worker sew cherubim into the pattern.Make all the curtains the same size. They must be 42 feet long and six feet wide.Join five of the curtains together. Do the same thing with the other five.Make loops out of blue strips of cloth along the edge of the end curtain in one set. Do the same thing with the end curtain in the other set.Make 50 loops on the end curtain of the one set. Do the same thing on the end curtain of the other set. Put the loops across from each other.Make 50 gold hooks. Use them to join the curtains together so that the holy tent is all one piece.“ Make a total of 11 curtains out of goat hair to put over the holy tent.Make all 11 curtains the same size. They must be 45 feet long and six feet wide.Join five of the curtains together into one set. Do the same thing with the other six. Fold the sixth curtain in half at the front of the tent.Make 50 loops along the edge of the end curtain in the one set. Do the same thing with the other set.Then make 50 bronze hooks. Put them in the loops to join the tent together all in one piece.Let the extra half curtain hang down at the rear of the holy tent.The tent curtains will be 18 inches longer on both sides. What is left over will hang over the sides of the holy tent and cover it.Make a covering for the tent. Make it out of ram skins that are dyed red. Put a covering of the other strong leather over that.“ Make frames out of acacia wood for the holy tent.Make each frame 15 feet long and two feet three inches wide.Add two small wooden pins to each frame. Make the pins stick out so that they are even with each other. Make all the frames for the holy tent in the same way.Make 20 frames for the south side of the holy tent.And make 40 silver bases to go under them. Make two bases for each frame. Put one under each pin that sticks out.For the north side of the holy tent make 20 framesand 40 silver bases. Put two bases under each frame.Make six frames for the west end of the holy tent.Make two frames for the corners at the far end.At those two corners the frames must be double from top to bottom. They must be fitted into a single ring. Make both of them the same.There will be eight frames and 16 silver bases. There will be two bases under each frame.“ Also make crossbars out of acacia wood. Make five for the frames on one side of the holy tent.Make five for the frames on the other side. And make five for the frames on the west, at the far end of the holy tent.The center crossbar must reach from end to end at the middle of the frames.Cover the frames with gold. Make gold rings to hold the crossbars. Also cover the crossbars with gold.“ Set up the holy tent in keeping with the plan I showed you on the mountain.“ Make a curtain out of blue, purple and bright red yarn and finely twisted linen. Have a skilled worker sew cherubim into the pattern.Hang the curtain with gold hooks on four posts that are made out of acacia wood. Cover the posts with gold. Stand them on four silver bases.Hang the curtain from the hooks. Place the ark of the covenant law behind the curtain. The curtain will separate the Holy Room from the Most Holy Room.Put the cover on the ark of the covenant law in the Most Holy Room. The cover will be the place where sin is paid for.Place the table outside the curtain on the north side of the holy tent. And put the lampstand across from it on the south side.“ Make a curtain for the entrance to the tent. Make it out of blue, purple and bright red yarn and finely twisted linen. Have a person who sews skillfully make it.Make gold hooks for the curtain. Make five posts out of acacia wood. Cover them with gold. And make five bronze bases for them.
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Hebrews 3:3-4
The person who builds a house has greater honor than the house itself. In the same way, Jesus has been found worthy of greater honor than Moses.Every house is built by someone. But God is the builder of everything.
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Ezekiel 40:1-42
It was the 14th year after Jerusalem had been captured. We had been brought to Babylon as prisoners. It was the tenth day of a month near the beginning of the 25th year after that. On that day the power of the Lord came on me. He took me back to my land.In visions God gave me, he brought me to the land of Israel. He set me on a very high mountain. Some buildings were on the south side of it. They looked like a city.He took me there. I saw a man who appeared to be made out of bronze. He was standing at the gate of the outer courtyard. He was holding a linen measuring tape and a measuring rod.The man said to me,“ Son of man, look carefully and listen closely. Pay attention to everything I show you. That is why the Lord brought you here. Tell the people of Israel everything you see.”I saw a wall that completely surrounded the temple area. The measuring rod in the man’s hand was 11 feet long. He measured the wall with it. The wall was as thick and as high as one measuring rod.Then the man went to the east gate. He climbed its steps. He measured the gateway. It was one rod wide.The rooms where the guards stood were one rod long and one rod wide. The walls between the rooms were almost nine feet thick. The gateway next to the porch was one rod wide. The porch faced the front of the temple.Then the man measured the porch of the gateway.It was 14 feet wide. Each of its doorposts was three and a half feet thick. The porch of the gateway faced the front of the temple.Inside the east gate were three rooms on each side. All the rooms were the same size. The walls on each side of the rooms had the same thickness.Then the man measured the entrance of the gateway. It was 18 feet wide and 23 feet long.In front of each room was a wall. It was 21 inches high. The rooms measured 11 feet on each side.Then he measured the gateway from the back wall of one room to the back wall of the room across from it. It was 44 feet from the top of one wall to the top of the other.He measured along the front of the side walls all around the inside of the gateway. The total was 105 feet. That didn’t include the porch that faced the courtyard.It was 88 feet from the entrance of the gateway to the far end of its porch.The rooms and their side walls inside the gateway had narrow openings on top of them. So did the porch. All the openings faced the inside. The front of each side wall was decorated with a palm tree.Then the man brought me into the outer courtyard. There I saw some rooms and a sidewalk. They had been built all around the courtyard. Along the sidewalk were 30 rooms.The sidewalk went all the way up to the sides of the gateways. It was as wide as they were long. This was the lower sidewalk.Then he measured from the inside of the lower gateway to the outside of the inner courtyard. The east side measured 175 feet. So did the north side.Then the man measured the north gate. He wanted to show me how long and wide it was. The gate led into the outer courtyard.It had three rooms on each side. Their side walls and porch measured the same as the ones at the first gateway. They measured 88 feet long and 44 feet wide.Its openings, porch and palm tree decorations measured the same as the ones at the east gate. Seven steps led up to the north gate. Its porch was across from them.The inner courtyard had a gate. It faced the gate on the north. It was just like the east gate. He measured from one gate to the one across from it. The total was 175 feet.Then the man led me to the south side of the courtyard. There I saw the south gate. He measured its doorposts and porch. They measured the same as the others.The gateway and its porch had narrow openings all around. The openings were the same as the others had. The side walls and porch measured 88 feet long and 44 feet wide.Seven steps led up to it. Its porch was across from them. The front of each side wall was decorated with a palm tree.The inner courtyard also had a gate that faced south. The man measured from this gate to the outer gate on the south side. The total was 175 feet.Then the man brought me into the inner courtyard. We went through the south gate. He measured it. It was the same size as the others.Its rooms, side walls and porch measured the same as the ones at the other gateways. The gateway and its porch had openings all around. The side walls and porch measured 88 feet long and 44 feet wide.The porches of the gateways around the inner courtyard were 44 feet wide and nine feet long.Its porch faced the outer courtyard. Palm trees decorated its doorposts. Eight steps led up to it.Then the man brought me to the east side of the inner courtyard. There he measured the gateway. It was the same size as the others.Its rooms, side walls and porch measured the same as the ones at the other gateways. The gateway and its porch had openings all around. The side walls and porch measured 88 feet long and 44 feet wide.Its porch faced the outer courtyard. Each doorpost was decorated with a palm tree. Eight steps led up to the porch.Then the man brought me to the north gate. He measured it. It was the same size as the others.Its rooms, side walls and porch measured the same as the ones at the other gateways. It had openings all around. The side walls and the porch measured 88 feet long and 44 feet wide.The porch faced the outer courtyard. Each doorpost was decorated with a palm tree. Eight steps led up to the porch.A room with a doorway was by the porch of each inner gateway. The burnt offerings were washed there.On each side of the porch of the gateway were two tables. The burnt offerings were killed on them. So were the sin offerings and guilt offerings.Two more tables were by the outer wall of the gateway porch. They were near the steps at the entrance of the north gateway. Two more tables were on the other side of the steps.So there were four tables on each side of the gateway. The total number of tables was eight. Animals for sacrifice were killed on all of them.There were also four other tables for the burnt offerings. They were made out of blocks of stone. Each table was two and a half feet long and two and a half feet wide. And each was almost two feet high. The tools for killing the burnt offerings and other sacrifices were placed on them.
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Ezekiel 42:12
People entered the south rooms through the doorway at the east end of the inner sidewalk. The south wall continued east of the outer row of rooms.
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1 Kings 6 7
All the stones used for building the temple were shaped where they were cut. So hammers, chisels and other iron tools couldn’t be heard where the temple was being built.
