My dwelling place will be with them; I will be their God, and they will be My people.
Parallel translations
- WEB My tent also shall be with them; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people.
- KJV My tabernacle also shall be with them: yea, I will be their God, and they shall be my people.
- NKJV My tabernacle also shall be with them; indeed I will be their God, and they shall be My people.
- NASB My dwelling place also will be among them; and I will be their God, and they will be My people.
- NLT I will make my home among them. I will be their God, and they will be my people.
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God's dwelling will be with His people, He their God and they His people. God's abiding presence is the crown of the covenant.
Overview
God promises that His tabernacle, His very dwelling, will be among His people in the covenant bond. His presence is the goal of redemption. The New Testament applies this to God dwelling with His people in Christ, fulfilled finally when God tabernacles with the redeemed forever.
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- Rev 21:3And 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.
- John 1:14The 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.
- Ezek 37:23They will no longer defile themselves with their idols or detestable images, or with any of their transgressions. I will save them from all their apostasies by which they sinned, and I will cleanse them. Then they will be My people, and I will be their God.
- Col 2:9–10For in Christ all the fullness of the Deity dwells in bodily form.
- 2 Cor 6:16What 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.”
- Lev 26:11–12And I will make My dwelling place among you, and My soul will not despise you.
- Hos 2:23And I will sow her as My own in the land, and I will have compassion on ‘No Compassion.’ I will say to those called ‘Not My People,’ ‘You are My people,’ and they will say, ‘You are my God.’”
- Ezek 36:28Then you will live in the land that I gave your forefathers; you will be My people, and I will be your God.
- Ezek 11:20so that they may follow My statutes, keep My ordinances, and practice them. Then they will be My people, and I will be their God.
- Rev 21:22But I saw no temple in the city, because the Lord God Almighty and the Lamb are its temple.
- Ezek 14:11in order that the house of Israel may no longer stray from Me and no longer defile themselves with all their transgressions. Then they will be My people and I will be their God, declares the Lord GOD.’”
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