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Acts 7:47-55 Modern English Version (MEV)

47. But Solomon built Him a house.

48. “However, the Most High does not dwell in houses made with hands. As the prophet says:

49. ‘Heaven is My throne,and the earth is My footstool.What house will you build for Me? says the Lord,or what is the place of My rest?

50. Has not My hand made all these things?’

51. “You stiff-necked people, uncircumcised in heart and ears! You always resist the Holy Spirit. As your fathers did, so do you.

52. Which of the prophets have your fathers not persecuted? They have even killed those who foretold the coming of the Righteous One, of whom you have now become the betrayers and murderers,

53. who have received the law by the disposition of angels, but have not kept it.”

54. When they heard these things, they were cut to the heart, and they gnashed their teeth at him.

55. But being full of the Holy Spirit, he gazed into heaven and saw the glory of God, and Jesus standing at the right hand of God,

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