Quotes About Temple

Finally the city clerk quieted the crowd and declared, “Men of Ephesus, doesnít everyone know that the city of Ephesus is guardian of the temple of the great Artemis and of her image, which fell from heaven?

For you have brought these men here, though they have neither robbed our temple nor blasphemed our goddess.

So the next day Paul took the men and purified himself along with them. Then he entered the temple to give notice of the date when their purification would be complete and the offering would be made for each of them.

When the seven days were almost over, some Jews from the province of Asia saw Paul at the temple. They stirred up the whole crowd and seized him,

crying out, “Men of Israel, help us! This is the man who teaches everywhere against our people and against our law and against this place. Furthermore, he has brought Greeks into the temple and defiled this holy place.”

For they had previously seen Trophimus the Ephesian with him in the city, and they assumed that Paul had brought him into the temple.

The whole city was stirred up, and the people rushed together. They seized Paul and dragged him out of the temple, and at once the gates were shut.

Later, when I had returned to Jerusalem and was praying at the temple, I fell into a trance

and he even tried to desecrate the temple; so we seized him.

Yet my accusers did not find me debating with anyone in the temple or riling up a crowd in the synagogues or in the city.

At the time they found me in the temple, I was ceremonially clean and was not inciting a crowd or an uproar. But there are some Jews from the province of Asia

Then Paul made his defense: “I have committed no offense against the law of the Jews or against the temple or against Caesar.”

For this reason the Jews seized me in the temple courts and tried to kill me.

Do you not know that you yourselves are Godís temple, and that Godís Spirit dwells in you?

If anyone destroys Godís temple, God will destroy him; for Godís temple is holy, and you are that temple.

Do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have received from God? You are not your own;

For if someone with a weak conscience sees you who are well informed eating in an idolís temple, will he not be encouraged to eat food sacrificed to idols?

Do you not know that those who work in the temple eat of its food, and those who serve at the altar partake of its offerings?

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.”

In Him the whole building is fitted together and grows into a holy temple in the Lord.

He will oppose and exalt himself above every so-called god or object of worship. So he will seat himself in the temple of God, proclaiming himself to be God.

Behind the second curtain was a room called the Most Holy Place,

When everything had been prepared in this way, the priests entered regularly into the first room to perform their sacred duties.

The one who overcomes I will make a pillar in the temple of My God, and he will never again leave it. Upon him I will write the name of My God, and the name of the city of My God (the new Jerusalem that comes down out of heaven from My God), and My new name.