August 16

Morning

The house [that is] to be builded for the LORD [must be] exceeding magnifical.

Ye . . . as lively stones, are built up a spiritual house.-- Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and [that] the Spirit of God dwelleth in you? If any man defile the temple of God, him shall God destroy; for the temple of God is holy, which [temple] ye are.--Your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost [which is] in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own? For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God's.--What agreement hath the temple of God with idols? for ye are the temple of the living God; as God hath said, I will dwell in them, and walk in [them]; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people.--Ye . . . are built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ himself being the chief corner [stone]; in whom all the building fitly framed together groweth unto an holy temple in the Lord: in whom ye also are builded together for an habitation of God through the Spirit.

1Ch 22:5 1Pe 2:5 1Co 3:16,17 1Co 6:19,20 2Co 6:16 Eph 2:19-22

Evening

He is before all things.

The Amen, . . . the beginning of the creation of God.--The beginning, the firstborn from the dead; that in all [things] he might have the preeminence.

The LORD possessed me in the beginning of his way, before his works of old. I was set up from everlasting, from the beginning, or ever the earth was. . . . When he prepared the heavens, I [was] there: when he set a compass upon the face of the depth: when he established the clouds above: when he strengthened the fountains of the deep: when he gave to the sea his decree, that the waters should not pass his commandment. . . . I was by him, [as] one brought up [with him]: and I was daily [his] delight, rejoicing always before him.--Yea, before the day [was] I [am] he.

The Lamb slain from the foundation of the world.--The author and finisher of [our] faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God.

Col 1:17 Re 3:14 Col 1:18 Pr 8:22,23,27-30 Isa 43:13 Re 13:8 Heb 12:2