house of god

¹⁶Do you not know that you are the Temple of God, and that the Spirit of God lives within you?

²Thus says the Lord of hosts, saying: This people claims that the time has not yet arrived for building the house of the Lord. ³But the word of the Lord came by the hand of Haggai the prophet, saying: ⁴Is it time for you to dwell in paneled houses, while this house is deserted? ⁵And now, thus says the Lord of hosts: Set your hearts upon your ways. ⁶You sowed much and have brought in little. You consumed and have not been satisfied. You drank and have not been inebriated. You covered yourselves and have not been warmed. And whoever gathered wages, has put them in a bag with holes. ⁷Thus says the Lord of hosts: Set your hearts upon your ways.

¹You should not speak anything rashly, nor should your heart be hasty to present a word before God. For God is in heaven, and you are on earth. For this reason, let your words be few.

⁵be also yourselves like living stones, built upon him, a spiritual house, a holy priesthood, so as to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.

¹⁴I am writing these things to you, with the hope that I will come to you soon. ¹⁵But, if I am delayed, you should know the manner in which it is necessary to conduct yourself in the house of God, which is the Church of the living God, the pillar and the foundation of truth.

²⁸Take care of yourselves and of the entire flock, over which the Holy Spirit has stationed you as Bishops to rule the Church of God, which he has purchased by his own blood.

¹⁵But, if I am delayed, you should know the manner in which it is necessary to conduct yourself in the house of God, which is the Church of the living God, the pillar and the foundation of truth.

²⁵not deserting our assembly, as some are accustomed to do, but consoling one another, and even more so as you see that the day is approaching.

¹³And he said to them: “It is written: ‘My house shall be called a house of prayer. But you have made it into a den of robbers.’ ”

¹⁷For it is time that judgment begin at the house of God. And if it is first from us, what shall be the end of those who do not believe the Gospel of God?

¹⁵If you love me, keep my commandments. ¹⁶And I will ask the Father, and he will give another Advocate to you, so that he may abide with you for eternity: ¹⁷the Spirit of Truth, whom the world is not able to accept, because it neither perceives him nor knows him. But you shall know him. For he will remain with you, and he will be in you. ¹⁸I will not leave you orphans. I will return to you. ¹⁹Yet a little while and the world will not see me any longer. But you will see me. For I live, and you shall live. ²⁰In that day, you shall know that I am in my Father, and you are in me, and I am in you.

²he said to the prophet Nathan, “Do you not see that I live in a house of cedar, and that the ark of God has been placed in the midst of tent skins?”

¹⁰Do not be afraid, for I am with you. Do not turn away, for I am your God. I have strengthened you, and I have assisted you, and the right hand of my just one has upheld you.

⁴⁹And he said to them: “How is it that you were seeking me? For did you not know that it is necessary for me to be in these things which are of my Father?”

¹²And there is no salvation in any other. For there is no other name under heaven given to men, by which it is necessary for us to be saved.”

¹A Canticle in steps. I rejoiced in the things that were said to me: “We shall go into the house of the Lord.” ²Our feet were standing in your courts, O Jerusalem. ³Jerusalem has been built as a city, whose participation is unto itself. ⁴For to that place, the tribes ascended, the tribes of the Lord: the testimony of Israel, to confess to the name of the Lord. ⁵For in that place, seats have sat down in judgment, seats above the house of David. ⁶Petition for the things that are for the peace of Jerusalem, and for abundance for those who love you.

²And many nations will hurry, and will say: “Come, let us ascend to the mountain of the Lord and to the house of the God of Jacob. And he will teach us about his ways, and we will walk in his paths.” For the law will go forth from Zion, and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem.

¹¹For one day in your courts is better than thousands elsewhere. I have chosen to be lowly in the house of my God, rather than to dwell in the tabernacles of sinners.

⁸Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners! And purify your hearts, you duplicitous souls!