Ezekiel 46:20
46:20 He said to me, “This is the place where the priests will boil the guilt offering and the sin offering, and where they will bake the grain offering, so that they do not bring them out to the outer court to transmit holiness to the people.”
Exodus 29:37
29:37 For seven days
you are to make atonement for the altar and set it apart as holy. Then the altar will be most holy.
Anything that touches the altar will be holy.
Exodus 30:29
30:29 So you are to sanctify them,
and they will be most holy;
anything that touches them will be holy.
Leviticus 6:27
6:27 Anyone who touches its meat must be holy, and whoever spatters some of its blood on a garment,
you must wash
whatever he spatters it on in a holy place.
Matthew 23:17-19
23:17 Blind fools! Which is greater, the gold or the temple that makes the gold sacred?
23:18 And, ‘Whoever swears by the altar is bound by nothing.
But if anyone swears by the gift on it he is bound by the oath.’
23:19 You are blind! For which is greater, the gift or the altar that makes the gift sacred?
Matthew 23:1
Seven Woes
23:1 Then Jesus said to the crowds and to his disciples,
Colossians 3:5-6
3:5 So put to death whatever in your nature belongs to the earth:
sexual immorality, impurity, shameful passion,
evil desire, and greed which is idolatry.
3:6 Because of these things the wrath of God is coming on the sons of disobedience.