~ Haggai 2:9
Or do you not know that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have from God, and you are not your own?
~ 1 Corinthians 6:19
But if the ministry of death, written and engraved on stones, was glorious, so that the children of Israel could not look steadily at the face of Moses because of the glory of his countenance, which glory was passing away, how will the ministry of the Spirit not be more glorious? For if the ministry of condemnation had glory, the ministry of righteousness exceeds much more in glory. For even what was made glorious had no glory in this respect, because of the glory that excels. For if what is passing away was glorious, what remains is much more glorious.
~ 2 Corinthians 3:7-11
When Solomon had finished praying, fire came down from heaven and consumed the burnt offering and the sacrifices; and the glory of the Lord filled the temple. And the priests could not enter the house of the Lord, because the glory of the Lord had filled the Lord's house.
~ 2 Chronicles 7:1-2
Under the new covenant, we, God's people, are His temple. We are the latter temple. The glory available to us is a greater glory. It is a glory greater than that which filled the old temple. If the old temple was so filled with the glory of God that the priests could no longer be in the temple, how much more intense should be the glory of God that can fill us, a temple not made by human hands?
The glory of the latter is greater than the former.
I am the dwelling place of the Spirit of God.
Lord, fill this house with your glory, for I am not my own.

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