14because those who are led by the Spirit of God are sons of God. 15For
you did not receive a spirit that makes you a slave again to fear, but
you received the Spirit of sonship. And by him we cry, “Abba, Father.” 16The Spirit himself testifies with our spirit that we are God’s children. 17Now
if we are children, then we are heirs—heirs of God and co-heirs with
Christ, if indeed we share in his sufferings in order that we may also
share in his glory.
Since,
then, you have been raised with Christ, set your hearts on things above,
where Christ is seated at the right hand of God. Set your minds on
things above, not on earthly things. For you died, and your life is now
hidden with Christ in God. When Christ, who is your life, appears, then
you also will appear with him in glory. Put to death, therefore,
whatever belongs to your earthly nature: sexual immorality, impurity,
lust, evil desires and greed, which is idolatry. Because of these, the
wrath of God is coming. You used to walk in these ways, in the life you
once lived. But now you must rid yourselves of all such things as these:
anger, rage, malice, slander, and filthy language from your lips. Do
not lie to each other, since you have taken off your old self with its
practices and have put on the new self, which is being renewed in
knowledge in the image of its Creator. Here there is no Greek or Jew,
circumcised or uncircumcised, barbarian, Scythian, slave or free, but
Christ is all, and is in all.
13 When they had gone, an angel of the Lord
appeared to Joseph in a dream. “Get up,” he said, “take the child and his
mother and escape to Egypt. Stay there until I tell you, for Herod is going to
search for the child to kill him.”
14 So he got up, took the child and his
mother during the night and left for Egypt, 15 where he stayed until the death
of Herod. And so was fulfilled what the Lord had said through the prophet: “Out
of Egypt I called my son.”
In
the four hundred and eightieth year after
the Israelites came out of Egypt, in the fourth year of Solomon’s reign over
Israel, in the month of Ziv, the second month, he began to build the temple of
the Lord.
2 The
temple that King Solomon built for the Lord
was sixty cubits long, twenty wide and thirty high. 3 The
portico at the front of the main hall of the temple extended the width of the
temple, that is twenty cubits, and
projected ten cubits from the
front of the temple. 4 He made narrow windows high up in the
temple walls. 5 Against the walls of the main hall and inner
sanctuary he built a structure around the building, in which there were side
rooms. 6 The lowest floor was five cubits wide, the
middle floor six cubits and the third
floor seven. He made
offset ledges around the outside of the temple so that nothing would be
inserted into the temple walls.
7 In
building the temple, only blocks dressed at the quarry were used, and no
hammer, chisel or any other iron tool was heard at the temple site while it was
being built.
8 The
entrance to the lowest floor was
on the south side of the temple; a stairway led up to the middle level and from
there to the third. 9 So he built the temple and completed it,
roofing it with beams and cedar planks. 10 And he built the
side rooms all along the temple. The height of each was five cubits, and they
were attached to the temple by beams of cedar.
11 The
word of the Lord came to Solomon: 12 “As
for this temple you are building, if you follow my decrees, observe my laws and
keep all my commands and obey them, I will fulfill through you the promise I
gave to David your father. 13 And I will live among the
Israelites and will not abandon my people Israel.”
14 So
Solomon built the temple and completed it. 15 He lined its
interior walls with cedar boards, paneling them from the floor of the temple to
the ceiling, and covered the floor of the temple with planks of juniper. 16 He
partitioned off twenty cubits at the rear of the temple with cedar boards from
floor to ceiling to form within the temple an inner sanctuary, the Most Holy
Place. 17 The main hall in front of this room was forty cubits[i] long. 18 The
inside of the temple was cedar, carved with gourds and open flowers. Everything
was cedar; no stone was to be seen.
19 He
prepared the inner sanctuary within the temple to set the ark of the covenant
of the Lord there. 20 The
inner sanctuary was twenty cubits long, twenty wide and twenty high. He
overlaid the inside with pure gold, and he also overlaid the altar of cedar. 21 Solomon
covered the inside of the temple with pure gold, and he extended gold chains
across the front of the inner sanctuary, which was overlaid with gold. 22 So
he overlaid the whole interior with gold. He also overlaid with gold the altar
that belonged to the inner sanctuary.
23 For
the inner sanctuary he made a pair of cherubim out of olive wood, each ten
cubits high. 24 One wing of the first cherub was five cubits
long, and the other wing five cubits—ten cubits from wing tip to wing tip. 25 The
second cherub also measured ten cubits, for the two cherubim were identical in
size and shape. 26 The height of each cherub was ten cubits. 27 He
placed the cherubim inside the innermost room of the temple, with their wings
spread out. The wing of one cherub touched one wall, while the wing of the
other touched the other wall, and their wings touched each other in the middle
of the room. 28 He overlaid the cherubim with gold.
29 On
the walls all around the temple, in both the inner and outer rooms, he carved
cherubim, palm trees and open flowers. 30 He also covered the
floors of both the inner and outer rooms of the temple with gold.
31 For
the entrance to the inner sanctuary he made doors out of olive wood that were
one fifth of the width of the sanctuary. 32 And on the two
olive-wood doors he carved cherubim, palm trees and open flowers, and overlaid
the cherubim and palm trees with hammered gold. 33 In the same
way, for the entrance to the main hall he made doorframes out of olive wood
that were one fourth of the width of the hall. 34 He also made
two doors out of juniper wood, each having two leaves that turned in sockets. 35 He
carved cherubim, palm trees and open flowers on them and overlaid them with
gold hammered evenly over the carvings.
36 And
he built the inner courtyard of three courses of dressed stone and one course
of trimmed cedar beams.
37 The
foundation of the temple of the Lord
was laid in the fourth year, in the month of Ziv. 38 In the
eleventh year in the month of Bul, the eighth month, the temple was finished in
all its details according to its specifications. He had spent seven years
building it.
