Exodus 29:37

37Seven days you shall make atonement for the altar and consecrate it, and the aaltar shall be most holy. bWhatever touches the altar shall become holy.

Exodus 30:29

29You shall consecrate them, that they may be most holy. cWhatever touches them will become holy.

Leviticus 6:27

27Whatever touches its flesh shall be holy, and when any of its blood is splashed on a garment, you shall wash that on which it was splashed in a holy place.

Ezekiel 46:20

20And he said to me, “This is the place where the priests dshall boil the guilt offering and the sin offering, and where ethey shall bake the grain offering, in order not to bring them out into the outer court and so ftransmit holiness to the people.”

Matthew 23:17-19

17You blind fools! For which is greater, the gold or gthe temple that has made the gold sacred? 18And you say, ‘If anyone swears by the altar, it is nothing, but if anyone swears by hthe gift that is on the altar, he is bound by his oath.’ 19You blind men! For which is greater, the gift or ithe altar that makes the gift sacred?

1 Corinthians 3:5-6

5What then is Apollos? What is Paul? jServants through whom you believed, kas the Lord assigned to each. 6 lI planted, mApollos watered, nbut God gave the growth.
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