Bible Verses About Sacred Spaces

And let them make me a sanctuary; that I may dwell among them.

For they also built them high places, and images, and groves, on every high hill, and under every green tree.

If any man defile the temple of God, him shall God destroy; for the temple of God is holy, which temple ye are.

God that made the world and all things therein, seeing that he is Lord of heaven and earth, dwelleth not in temples made with hands;

So he measured the length thereof, twenty cubits; and the breadth, twenty cubits, before the temple: and he said unto me, This is the most holy place.

Ye shall keep my sabbaths, and reverence my sanctuary: I am the Lord.

Ye shall keep my sabbaths, and reverence my sanctuary: I am the Lord.

And they dwelt therein, and have built thee a sanctuary therein for thy name, saying,

And he said, Draw not nigh hither: put off thy shoes from off thy feet, for the place whereon thou standest is holy ground.

The holy portion of the land shall be for the priests the ministers of the sanctuary, which shall come near to minister unto the Lord: and it shall be a place for their houses, and an holy place for the sanctuary.

Then said the Lord to him, Put off thy shoes from thy feet: for the place where thou standest is holy ground.

And thou shalt sanctify them, that they may be most holy: whatsoever toucheth them shall be holy.

And if a man sanctify unto the Lord a field which he hath bought, which is not of the fields of his possession;

Then said he unto me, The north chambers and the south chambers, which are before the separate place, they be holy chambers, where the priests that approach unto the Lord shall eat the most holy things: there shall they lay the most holy things, and the meat offering, and the sin offering, and the trespass offering; for the place is holy.

He that dwelleth in the secret place of the most High shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty.

But I say unto you, That in this place is one greater than the temple.

But the Lord is in his holy temple: let all the earth keep silence before him.

Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you?

And my people shall dwell in a peaceable habitation, and in sure dwellings, and in quiet resting places;

This is the law of the house; Upon the top of the mountain the whole limit thereof round about shall be most holy. Behold, this is the law of the house.

And the pattern of all that he had by the spirit, of the courts of the house of the Lord, and of all the chambers round about, of the treasuries of the house of God, and of the treasuries of the dedicated things:

Howbeit the most High dwelleth not in temples made with hands; as saith the prophet,

For now have I chosen and sanctified this house, that my name may be there for ever: and mine eyes and mine heart shall be there perpetually.

A glorious high throne from the beginning is the place of our sanctuary.

In whom all the building fitly framed together groweth unto an holy temple in the Lord:

And they set them up images and groves in every high hill, and under every green tree:

And thou shalt put the mercy seat upon the ark of the testimony in the most holy place.

Thou shalt bring them in, and plant them in the mountain of thine inheritance, in the place, O Lord, which thou hast made for thee to dwell in, in the Sanctuary, O Lord, which thy hands have established.

And what agreement hath the temple of God with idols? for ye are the temple of the living God; as God hath said, I will dwell in them, and walk in them; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people.

And he built his sanctuary like high palaces, like the earth which he hath established for ever.

Then David gave to Solomon his son the pattern of the porch, and of the houses thereof, and of the treasuries thereof, and of the upper chambers thereof, and of the inner parlours thereof, and of the place of the mercy seat,

And he built altars for all the host of heaven in the two courts of the house of the Lord.

And he built altars for all the host of heaven in the two courts of the house of the Lord.

That thou hast also built unto thee an eminent place, and hast made thee an high place in every street.

And into whatsoever house ye enter, first say, Peace be to this house.

And the Lord said unto him, I have heard thy prayer and thy supplication, that thou hast made before me: I have hallowed this house, which thou hast built, to put my name there for ever; and mine eyes and mine heart shall be there perpetually.

And Jesus walked in the temple in Solomon’s porch.

Ye that stand in the house of the Lord, in the courts of the house of our God,

The tabernacle, his tent, and his covering, his taches, and his boards, his bars, his pillars, and his sockets,

And he sacrificed and burnt incense in the high places, and on the hills, and under every green tree.