Psalms 68:18

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Psalms 68:16–20 · Berean Standard Bible

16 Why do you gaze in envy, O mountains of many peaks? This is the mountain God chose for His dwelling, where the LORD will surely dwell forever.

17 The chariots of God are tens of thousands— thousands of thousands are they; the Lord is in His sanctuary as He was at Sinai.

18 You have ascended on high; You have led captives away. You have received gifts from men, even from the rebellious, that the LORD God may dwell there.

19 Blessed be the Lord, who daily bears our burden, the God of our salvation. Selah

20 Our God is a God of deliverance; the Lord GOD is our rescuer from death.

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Psalms 24:3

Who may ascend the hill of the LORD? Who may stand in His holy place?

Psalms 24:7

Lift up your heads, O gates! Be lifted up, O ancient doors, that the King of Glory may enter!

Psalms 24:8

Who is this King of Glory? The LORD strong and mighty, the LORD mighty in battle.

Psalms 24:9

Lift up your heads, O gates! Be lifted up, O ancient doors, that the King of Glory may enter!

Psalms 24:10

Who is He, this King of Glory? The LORD of Hosts— He is the King of Glory. Selah

Psalms 47:5

God has ascended amid shouts of joy, the LORD with the sound of the horn.

Psalms 110:1

The LORD said to my Lord: “Sit at My right hand until I make Your enemies a footstool for Your feet.”

Mark 16:9

Early on the first day of the week, after Jesus had risen, He appeared first to Mary Magdalene, from whom He had driven out seven demons.

Luke 24:51

While He was blessing them, He left them and was carried up into heaven.

Acts 1:2

until the day He was taken up to heaven, after giving instructions through the Holy Spirit to the apostles He had chosen.

Acts 1:3

After His suffering, He presented Himself to them with many convincing proofs that He was alive. He appeared to them over a span of forty days and spoke about the kingdom of God.

Acts 1:4

And while they were gathered together, He commanded them: “Do not leave Jerusalem, but wait for the gift the Father promised, which you have heard Me discuss.

Acts 1:5

For John baptized with water, but in a few days you will be baptized with the Holy Spirit.”

Acts 1:6

So when they came together, they asked Him, “Lord, will You at this time restore the kingdom to Israel?”

Acts 1:7

Jesus replied, “It is not for you to know times or seasons that the Father has fixed by His own authority.

Acts 1:8

But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes upon you, and you will be My witnesses in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth.”

Acts 1:9

After He had said this, they watched as He was taken up, and a cloud hid Him from their sight.

Ephesians 4:8

This is why it says: “When He ascended on high, He led captives away, and gave gifts to men.”

Ephesians 4:9

What does “He ascended” mean, except that He also descended to the lower parts of the earth?

Ephesians 4:10

He who descended is the very One who ascended above all the heavens, in order to fill all things.

Hebrews 4:14

Therefore, since we have a great high priest who has passed through the heavens, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold firmly to what we profess.

Hebrews 6:20

where Jesus our forerunner has entered on our behalf. He has become a high priest forever in the order of Melchizedek.

Hebrews 8:1

The point of what we are saying is this: We do have such a high priest, who sat down at the right hand of the throne of the Majesty in heaven,

1 Peter 3:22

who has gone into heaven and is at the right hand of God, with angels, authorities, and powers subject to Him.

Judges 5:12

‘Awake, awake, O Deborah! Awake, awake, sing a song! Arise, O Barak, and take hold of your captives, O son of Abinoam!’

Luke 24:49

And behold, I am sending the promise of My Father upon you. But remain in the city until you have been clothed with power from on high.”

John 14:16

And I will ask the Father, and He will give you another Advocate to be with you forever—

John 14:17

the Spirit of truth. The world cannot receive Him, because it neither sees Him nor knows Him. But you do know Him, for He abides with you and will be in you.

John 16:7

But I tell you the truth, it is for your benefit that I am going away. Unless I go away, the Advocate will not come to you; but if I go, I will send Him to you.

John 16:13

However, when the Spirit of truth comes, He will guide you into all truth. For He will not speak on His own, but He will speak what He hears, and He will declare to you what is to come.

John 16:14

He will glorify Me by taking from what is Mine and disclosing it to you.

John 16:15

Everything that belongs to the Father is Mine. That is why I said that the Spirit will take from what is Mine and disclose it to you.

Acts 2:4

And they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in other tongues as the Spirit enabled them.

Acts 2:33

Exalted, then, to the right hand of God, He has received from the Father the promised Holy Spirit and has poured out what you now see and hear.

Acts 2:34

For David did not ascend into heaven, but he himself says: ‘The Lord said to my Lord, “Sit at My right hand

Acts 2:35

until I make Your enemies a footstool for Your feet.”’

Acts 2:36

Therefore let all Israel know with certainty that God has made this Jesus, whom you crucified, both Lord and Christ!”

Acts 2:37

When the people heard this, they were cut to the heart and asked Peter and the other apostles, “Brothers, what shall we do?”

Acts 2:38

Peter replied, “Repent and be baptized, every one of you, in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins, and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.

1 Corinthians 15:45

So it is written: “The first man Adam became a living being;” the last Adam a life-giving spirit.

1 Corinthians 15:46

The spiritual, however, was not first, but the natural, and then the spiritual.

1 Corinthians 15:47

The first man was of the dust of the earth, the second man from heaven.

Colossians 1:18

And He is the head of the body, the church; He is the beginning and firstborn from among the dead, so that in all things He may have preeminence.

Colossians 1:19

For God was pleased to have all His fullness dwell in Him,

Colossians 2:3

in whom are hidden all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge.

Colossians 2:9

For in Christ all the fullness of the Deity dwells in bodily form.

Hebrews 1:3

The Son is the radiance of God’s glory and the exact representation of His nature, upholding all things by His powerful word. After He had provided purification for sins, He sat down at the right hand of the Majesty on high.

Proverbs 1:22

“How long, O simple ones, will you love your simple ways? How long will scoffers delight in their scorn and fools hate knowledge?

Proverbs 1:23

If you had repented at my rebuke, then surely I would have poured out my spirit on you; I would have made my words known to you.

Isaiah 55:7

Let the wicked man forsake his own way and the unrighteous man his own thoughts; let him return to the LORD, that He may have compassion, and to our God, for He will freely pardon.

Matthew 9:13

But go and learn what this means: ‘I desire mercy, not sacrifice.’ For I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners.”

Luke 24:47

and in His name repentance and forgiveness of sins will be proclaimed to all nations, beginning in Jerusalem.

Acts 2:23

He was delivered up by God’s set plan and foreknowledge, and you, by the hands of the lawless, put Him to death by nailing Him to the cross.

Acts 2:39

This promise belongs to you and your children and to all who are far off—to all whom the Lord our God will call to Himself.”

Acts 2:40

With many other words he testified, and he urged them, “Be saved from this corrupt generation.”

Acts 2:41

Those who embraced his message were baptized, and about three thousand were added to the believers that day.

Acts 9:17

So Ananias went to the house, and when he arrived, he placed his hands on Saul. “Brother Saul,” he said, “the Lord Jesus, who appeared to you on the road as you were coming here, has sent me so that you may see again and be filled with the Holy Spirit.”

1 Corinthians 6:9

Do you not know that the wicked will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: Neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor men who submit to or perform homosexual acts,

1 Corinthians 6:10

nor thieves, nor the greedy, nor drunkards, nor verbal abusers, nor swindlers, will inherit the kingdom of God.

1 Corinthians 6:11

And that is what some of you were. But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified, in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God.

1 Timothy 1:13

I was formerly a blasphemer, a persecutor, and a violent man; yet because I had acted in ignorance and unbelief, I was shown mercy.

1 Timothy 1:14

And the grace of our Lord overflowed to me, along with the faith and love that are in Christ Jesus.

1 Timothy 1:15

This is a trustworthy saying, worthy of full acceptance: Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners, of whom I am the worst.

Titus 3:3

For at one time we too were foolish, disobedient, misled, and enslaved to all sorts of desires and pleasures—living in malice and envy, being hated and hating one another.

Titus 3:4

But when the kindness of God our Savior and His love for mankind appeared,

Titus 3:5

He saved us, not by the righteous deeds we had done, but according to His mercy, through the washing of new birth and renewal by the Holy Spirit.

Titus 3:6

This is the Spirit He poured out on us abundantly through Jesus Christ our Savior,

Titus 3:7

so that, having been justified by His grace, we would become heirs with the hope of eternal life.

Psalms 78:60

He abandoned the tabernacle of Shiloh, the tent He had pitched among men.

Psalms 132:13

For the LORD has chosen Zion; He has desired it for His home:

Psalms 132:14

“This is My resting place forever and ever; here I will dwell, for I have desired this home.

2 Chronicles 6:18

But will God indeed dwell with man upon the earth? Even heaven, the highest heaven, cannot contain You, much less this temple I have built.

Isaiah 57:15

For thus says the One who is high and lifted up, who inhabits eternity, whose name is Holy: “I dwell in a high and holy place, and with the oppressed and humble in spirit, to restore the spirit of the lowly and revive the heart of the contrite.

Ezekiel 48:35

The perimeter of the city will be 18,000 cubits, and from that day on the name of the city will be: THE LORD IS THERE.”

John 14:23

Jesus replied, “If anyone loves Me, he will keep My word. My Father will love him, and We will come to him and make Our home with him.

2 Corinthians 6:16

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.”

Revelation 1:20

This is the mystery of the seven stars you saw in My right hand and of the seven golden lampstands: The seven stars are the angels of the seven churches, and the seven lampstands are the seven churches.

Revelation 2:1

“To the angel of the church in Ephesus write: These are the words of Him who holds the seven stars in His right hand and walks among the seven golden lampstands.

Revelation 21:3

And 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.