8 And I will give to you and to your seed after you the land of your alien residences,+ even the entire land of Caʹnaan, for a possession to time indefinite; and I will prove myself God to them.”+
20 in order that they may walk in my own statutes and keep my own judicial decisions and actually carry them out;+ and they may really become my people+ and I myself may become their God.”’+
16 And what agreement does God’s temple* have with idols?+ For we are a temple+ of a living God; just as God said: “I shall reside among them+ and walk among [them], and I shall be their God, and they will be my people.”+