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Hebrews 3:4 ESV / 199 helpful votes
(For every house is built by someone, but the builder of all things is God.)
Psalm 127:1 ESV / 198 helpful votes
A Song of Ascents. Of Solomon. Unless the Lord builds the house, those who build it labor in vain. Unless the Lord watches over the city, the watchman stays awake in vain.
Proverbs 24:27 ESV / 155 helpful votes
Prepare your work outside; get everything ready for yourself in the field, and after that build your house.
Haggai 1:8 ESV / 149 helpful votes
Go up to the hills and bring wood and build the house, that I may take pleasure in it and that I may be glorified, says the Lord.
Luke 14:28 ESV / 131 helpful votes
For which of you, desiring to build a tower, does not first sit down and count the cost, whether he has enough to complete it?
Luke 6:46-49 ESV / 120 helpful votes
“Why do you call me ‘Lord, Lord,’ and not do what I tell you? Everyone who comes to me and hears my words and does them, I will show you what he is like: he is like a man building a house, who dug deep and laid the foundation on the rock. And when a flood arose, the stream broke against that house and could not shake it, because it had been well built. But the one who hears and does not do them is like a man who built a house on the ground without a foundation. When the stream broke against it, immediately it fell, and the ruin of that house was great.”
Proverbs 24:3 ESV / 110 helpful votes
By wisdom a house is built, and by understanding it is established;
Isaiah 32:18 ESV / 96 helpful votes
My people will abide in a peaceful habitation, in secure dwellings, and in quiet resting places.
Philippians 4:19 ESV / 91 helpful votes
And my God will supply every need of yours according to his riches in glory in Christ Jesus.
Proverbs 24:3-4 ESV / 83 helpful votes
By wisdom a house is built, and by understanding it is established; by knowledge the rooms are filled with all precious and pleasant riches.
Isaiah 58:12 ESV / 81 helpful votes
And your ancient ruins shall be rebuilt; you shall raise up the foundations of many generations; you shall be called the repairer of the breach, the restorer of streets to dwell in.
Joshua 24:15 ESV / 77 helpful votes
And if it is evil in your eyes to serve the Lord, choose this day whom you will serve, whether the gods your fathers served in the region beyond the River, or the gods of the Amorites in whose land you dwell. But as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.”
Proverbs 14:1-12 ESV / 72 helpful votes
The wisest of women builds her house, but folly with her own hands tears it down. Whoever walks in uprightness fears the Lord, but he who is devious in his ways despises him. By the mouth of a fool comes a rod for his back, but the lips of the wise will preserve them. Where there are no oxen, the manger is clean, but abundant crops come by the strength of the ox. A faithful witness does not lie, but a false witness breathes out lies. …
1 Corinthians 3:9 ESV / 60 helpful votes
For we are God’s fellow workers. You are God’s field, God’s building.
Matthew 7:24-27 ESV / 59 helpful votes
“Everyone then who hears these words of mine and does them will be like a wise man who built his house on the rock. And the rain fell, and the floods came, and the winds blew and beat on that house, but it did not fall, because it had been founded on the rock. And everyone who hears these words of mine and does not do them will be like a foolish man who built his house on the sand. And the rain fell, and the floods came, and the winds blew and beat against that house, and it fell, and great was the fall of it.”
Nehemiah 4:1-23 ESV / 55 helpful votes
Now when Sanballat heard that we were building the wall, he was angry and greatly enraged, and he jeered at the Jews. And he said in the presence of his brothers and of the army of Samaria, “What are these feeble Jews doing? Will they restore it for themselves? Will they sacrifice? Will they finish up in a day? Will they revive the stones out of the heaps of rubbish, and burned ones at that?” Tobiah the Ammonite was beside him, and he said, “Yes, what they are building—if a fox goes up on it he will break down their stone wall!” Hear, O our God, for we are despised. Turn back their taunt on their own heads and give them up to be plundered in a land where they are captives. Do not cover their guilt, and let not their sin be blotted out from your sight, for they have provoked you to anger in the presence of the builders. …
Jeremiah 29:11 ESV / 49 helpful votes
For I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord, plans for welfare and not for evil, to give you a future and a hope.
Isaiah 28:16 ESV / 46 helpful votes
Therefore thus says the Lord God, “Behold, I am the one who has laid as a foundation in Zion, a stone, a tested stone, a precious cornerstone, of a sure foundation: ‘Whoever believes will not be in haste.’
Luke 6:48 ESV / 45 helpful votes
He is like a man building a house, who dug deep and laid the foundation on the rock. And when a flood arose, the stream broke against that house and could not shake it, because it had been well built.
Matthew 7:24 ESV / 45 helpful votes
“Everyone then who hears these words of mine and does them will be like a wise man who built his house on the rock.
Isaiah 66:1-2 ESV / 45 helpful votes
Thus says the Lord: “Heaven is my throne, and the earth is my footstool; what is the house that you would build for me, and what is the place of my rest? All these things my hand has made, and so all these things came to be, declares the Lord. But this is the one to whom I will look: he who is humble and contrite in spirit and trembles at my word.
Isaiah 65:21-22 ESV / 42 helpful votes
They shall build houses and inhabit them; they shall plant vineyards and eat their fruit. They shall not build and another inhabit; they shall not plant and another eat; for like the days of a tree shall the days of my people be, and my chosen shall long enjoy the work of their hands.
Hebrews 13:2 ESV / 37 helpful votes
Do not neglect to show hospitality to strangers, for thereby some have entertained angels unawares.
Colossians 3:23 ESV / 36 helpful votes
Whatever you do, work heartily, as for the Lord and not for men,
Proverbs 16:9 ESV / 35 helpful votes
The heart of man plans his way, but the Lord establishes his steps.
Deuteronomy 28:6 ESV / 34 helpful votes
Blessed shall you be when you come in, and blessed shall you be when you go out.
1 Peter 3:3-4 ESV / 30 helpful votes
Do not let your adorning be external—the braiding of hair and the putting on of gold jewelry, or the clothing you wear— but let your adorning be the hidden person of the heart with the imperishable beauty of a gentle and quiet spirit, which in God’s sight is very precious.
Colossians 3:14 ESV / 30 helpful votes
And above all these put on love, which binds everything together in perfect harmony.
Ephesians 2:20-22 ESV / 30 helpful votes
Built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Christ Jesus himself being the cornerstone, in whom the whole structure, being joined together, grows into a holy temple in the Lord. In him you also are being built together into a dwelling place for God by the Spirit.
John 3:16-17 ESV / 29 helpful votes
“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him.
1 Peter 2:4-5 ESV / 27 helpful votes
As you come to him, a living stone rejected by men but in the sight of God chosen and precious, you yourselves like living stones are being built up as a spiritual house, to be a holy priesthood, to offer spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.
Ephesians 2:20 ESV / 27 helpful votes
Built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Christ Jesus himself being the cornerstone,
John 16:33 ESV / 27 helpful votes
I have said these things to you, that in me you may have peace. In the world you will have tribulation. But take heart; I have overcome the world.”
2 Chronicles 7:15-16 ESV / 27 helpful votes
Now my eyes will be open and my ears attentive to the prayer that is made in this place. For now I have chosen and consecrated this house that my name may be there forever. My eyes and my heart will be there for all time.
1 Corinthians 3:11 ESV / 26 helpful votes
For no one can lay a foundation other than that which is laid, which is Jesus Christ.
Proverbs 3:5-6 ESV / 26 helpful votes
Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and do not lean on your own understanding. In all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make straight your paths.
1 Samuel 25:6 ESV / 26 helpful votes
And thus you shall greet him: ‘Peace be to you, and peace be to your house, and peace be to all that you have.
Matthew 7:25 ESV / 25 helpful votes
And the rain fell, and the floods came, and the winds blew and beat on that house, but it did not fall, because it had been founded on the rock.
Ephesians 2:19-22 ESV / 24 helpful votes
So then you are no longer strangers and aliens, but you are fellow citizens with the saints and members of the household of God, built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Christ Jesus himself being the cornerstone, in whom the whole structure, being joined together, grows into a holy temple in the Lord. In him you also are being built together into a dwelling place for God by the Spirit.
1 Corinthians 8:2-3 ESV / 24 helpful votes
If anyone imagines that he knows something, he does not yet know as he ought to know. But if anyone loves God, he is known by God.
Luke 10:5 ESV / 24 helpful votes
Whatever house you enter, first say, ‘Peace be to this house!’
1 Kings 8:13 ESV / 24 helpful votes
I have indeed built you an exalted house, a place for you to dwell in forever.”
2 Samuel 7:29 ESV / 23 helpful votes
Now therefore may it please you to bless the house of your servant, so that it may continue forever before you. For you, O Lord God, have spoken, and with your blessing shall the house of your servant be blessed forever.”
Psalm 23:1-6 ESV / 22 helpful votes
A Psalm of David. The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want. He makes me lie down in green pastures. He leads me beside still waters. He restores my soul. He leads me in paths of righteousness for his name’s sake. Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for you are with me; your rod and your staff, they comfort me. You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies; you anoint my head with oil; my cup overflows. …
Revelation 1:1-20 ESV / 21 helpful votes
The revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things that must soon take place. He made it known by sending his angel to his servant John, who bore witness to the word of God and to the testimony of Jesus Christ, even to all that he saw. Blessed is the one who reads aloud the words of this prophecy, and blessed are those who hear, and who keep what is written in it, for the time is near. John to the seven churches that are in Asia: Grace to you and peace from him who is and who was and who is to come, and from the seven spirits who are before his throne, and from Jesus Christ the faithful witness, the firstborn of the dead, and the ruler of kings on earth. To him who loves us and has freed us from our sins by his blood …
Hebrews 3:3 ESV / 21 helpful votes
For Jesus has been counted worthy of more glory than Moses—as much more glory as the builder of a house has more honor than the house itself.
Romans 12:1-21 ESV / 21 helpful votes
I appeal to you therefore, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God, which is your spiritual worship. Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect. For by the grace given to me I say to everyone among you not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think, but to think with sober judgment, each according to the measure of faith that God has assigned. For as in one body we have many members, and the members do not all have the same function, so we, though many, are one body in Christ, and individually members one of another. …
Haggai 1:4 ESV / 21 helpful votes
“Is it a time for you yourselves to dwell in your paneled houses, while this house lies in ruins?
Psalm 113:9 ESV / 21 helpful votes
He gives the barren woman a home, making her the joyous mother of children. Praise the Lord!
Matthew 7:26 ESV / 20 helpful votes
And everyone who hears these words of mine and does not do them will be like a foolish man who built his house on the sand.
Proverbs 14:1 ESV / 20 helpful votes
The wisest of women builds her house, but folly with her own hands tears it down.
1 Kings 3:1 ESV / 20 helpful votes
Solomon made a marriage alliance with Pharaoh king of Egypt. He took Pharaoh’s daughter and brought her into the city of David until he had finished building his own house and the house of the Lord and the wall around Jerusalem.
1 Timothy 4:12 ESV / 19 helpful votes
Let no one despise you for your youth, but set the believers an example in speech, in conduct, in love, in faith, in purity.
2 Corinthians 5:1 ESV / 19 helpful votes
For we know that if the tent that is our earthly home is destroyed, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens.
Numbers 6:24-25 ESV / 19 helpful votes
The Lord bless you and keep you; the Lord make his face to shine upon you and be gracious to you;
Proverbs 3:33 ESV / 18 helpful votes
The Lord’s curse is on the house of the wicked, but he blesses the dwelling of the righteous.
James 1:5 ESV / 17 helpful votes
If any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask God, who gives generously to all without reproach, and it will be given him.
Luke 6:47-49 ESV / 17 helpful votes
Everyone who comes to me and hears my words and does them, I will show you what he is like: he is like a man building a house, who dug deep and laid the foundation on the rock. And when a flood arose, the stream broke against that house and could not shake it, because it had been well built. But the one who hears and does not do them is like a man who built a house on the ground without a foundation. When the stream broke against it, immediately it fell, and the ruin of that house was great.”
Luke 6:47 ESV / 17 helpful votes
Everyone who comes to me and hears my words and does them, I will show you what he is like:
Matthew 16:18 ESV / 17 helpful votes
And I tell you, you are Peter, and on this rock I will build my church, and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.
Proverbs 3:6 ESV / 17 helpful votes
In all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make straight your paths.
Psalm 34:8 ESV / 17 helpful votes
Oh, taste and see that the Lord is good! Blessed is the man who takes refuge in him!
Matthew 6:1-34 ESV / 16 helpful votes
“Beware of practicing your righteousness before other people in order to be seen by them, for then you will have no reward from your Father who is in heaven. “Thus, when you give to the needy, sound no trumpet before you, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, that they may be praised by others. Truly, I say to you, they have received their reward. But when you give to the needy, do not let your left hand know what your right hand is doing, so that your giving may be in secret. And your Father who sees in secret will reward you. “And when you pray, you must not be like the hypocrites. For they love to stand and pray in the synagogues and at the street corners, that they may be seen by others. Truly, I say to you, they have received their reward. …
Jeremiah 29:5 ESV / 16 helpful votes
Build houses and live in them; plant gardens and eat their produce.
1 Peter 2:6 ESV / 15 helpful votes
For it stands in Scripture: “Behold, I am laying in Zion a stone, a cornerstone chosen and precious, and whoever believes in him will not be put to shame.”
Philippians 4:6 ESV / 15 helpful votes
Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God.
Amos 5:11 ESV / 15 helpful votes
Therefore because you trample on the poor and you exact taxes of grain from him, you have built houses of hewn stone, but you shall not dwell in them; you have planted pleasant vineyards, but you shall not drink their wine.
Proverbs 22:6 ESV / 15 helpful votes
Train up a child in the way he should go; even when he is old he will not depart from it.
Proverbs 9:1 ESV / 15 helpful votes
Wisdom has built her house; she has hewn her seven pillars.
1 Peter 3:8 ESV / 14 helpful votes
Finally, all of you, have unity of mind, sympathy, brotherly love, a tender heart, and a humble mind.
1 Timothy 3:15 ESV / 14 helpful votes
If I delay, you may know how one ought to behave in the household of God, which is the church of the living God, a pillar and buttress of the truth.
Acts 17:10-11 ESV / 14 helpful votes
The brothers immediately sent Paul and Silas away by night to Berea, and when they arrived they went into the Jewish synagogue. Now these Jews were more noble than those in Thessalonica; they received the word with all eagerness, examining the Scriptures daily to see if these things were so.
Acts 2:38 ESV / 14 helpful votes
And Peter said to them, “Repent and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins, and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.
Matthew 6:33 ESV / 14 helpful votes
But seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things will be added to you.
Psalm 18:2 ESV / 14 helpful votes
The Lord is my rock and my fortress and my deliverer, my God, my rock, in whom I take refuge, my shield, and the horn of my salvation, my stronghold.
Colossians 3:12 ESV / 13 helpful votes
Put on then, as God’s chosen ones, holy and beloved, compassionate hearts, kindness, humility, meekness, and patience,
Colossians 3:1-25 ESV / 13 helpful votes
If then you have been raised with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God. Set your minds on things that are above, not on things that are on earth. For you have died, and your life is 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 what is earthly in you: sexual immorality, impurity, passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry. …
Philippians 4:13 ESV / 13 helpful votes
I can do all things through him who strengthens me.
2 Corinthians 5:17 ESV / 13 helpful votes
Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new has come.
1 Corinthians 3:10-11 ESV / 13 helpful votes
According to the grace of God given to me, like a skilled master builder I laid a foundation, and someone else is building upon it. Let each one take care how he builds upon it. For no one can lay a foundation other than that which is laid, which is Jesus Christ.
Romans 12:4 ESV / 13 helpful votes
For as in one body we have many members, and the members do not all have the same function,
Matthew 8:1-34 ESV / 13 helpful votes
When he came down from the mountain, great crowds followed him. And behold, a leper came to him and knelt before him, saying, “Lord, if you will, you can make me clean.” And Jesus stretched out his hand and touched him, saying, “I will; be clean.” And immediately his leprosy was cleansed. And Jesus said to him, “See that you say nothing to anyone, but go, show yourself to the priest and offer the gift that Moses commanded, for a proof to them.” When he entered Capernaum, a centurion came forward to him, appealing to him, …
Matthew 5:4 ESV / 13 helpful votes
“Blessed are those who mourn, for they shall be comforted.
Proverbs 3:14 ESV / 13 helpful votes
For the gain from her is better than gain from silver and her profit better than gold.
Deuteronomy 6:6-9 ESV / 13 helpful votes
And these words that I command you today shall be on your heart. You shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise. You shall bind them as a sign on your hand, and they shall be as frontlets between your eyes. You shall write them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates.
Numbers 6:24-26 ESV / 13 helpful votes
The Lord bless you and keep you; the Lord make his face to shine upon you and be gracious to you; the Lord lift up his countenance upon you and give you peace.
1 Thessalonians 5:11 ESV / 11 helpful votes
Therefore encourage one another and build one another up, just as you are doing.
1 Corinthians 3:9-15 ESV / 11 helpful votes
For we are God’s fellow workers. You are God’s field, God’s building. According to the grace of God given to me, like a skilled master builder I laid a foundation, and someone else is building upon it. Let each one take care how he builds upon it. For no one can lay a foundation other than that which is laid, which is Jesus Christ. Now if anyone builds on the foundation with gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, straw— each one’s work will become manifest, for the Day will disclose it, because it will be revealed by fire, and the fire will test what sort of work each one has done. …
Romans 12:16 ESV / 11 helpful votes
Live in harmony with one another. Do not be haughty, but associate with the lowly. Never be wise in your own sight.
Romans 12:13 ESV / 11 helpful votes
Contribute to the needs of the saints and seek to show hospitality.
Proverbs 3:24 ESV / 11 helpful votes
If you lie down, you will not be afraid; when you lie down, your sleep will be sweet.
Psalm 127:5 ESV / 11 helpful votes
Blessed is the man who fills his quiver with them! He shall not be put to shame when he speaks with his enemies in the gate.
1 John 4:19 ESV / 10 helpful votes
We love because he first loved us.
Hebrews 11:1 ESV / 10 helpful votes
Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen.
2 Timothy 1:7 ESV / 10 helpful votes
For God gave us a spirit not of fear but of power and love and self-control.
Romans 12:17 ESV / 10 helpful votes
Repay no one evil for evil, but give thought to do what is honorable in the sight of all.
Romans 12:10 ESV / 10 helpful votes
Love one another with brotherly affection. Outdo one another in showing honor.
Matthew 7:2 ESV / 10 helpful votes
For with the judgment you pronounce you will be judged, and with the measure you use it will be measured to you.
1 Chronicles 22:1-19 ESV / 10 helpful votes
Then David said, “Here shall be the house of the Lord God and here the altar of burnt offering for Israel.” David commanded to gather together the resident aliens who were in the land of Israel, and he set stonecutters to prepare dressed stones for building the house of God. David also provided great quantities of iron for nails for the doors of the gates and for clamps, as well as bronze in quantities beyond weighing, and cedar timbers without number, for the Sidonians and Tyrians brought great quantities of cedar to David. For David said, “Solomon my son is young and inexperienced, and the house that is to be built for the Lord must be exceedingly magnificent, of fame and glory throughout all lands. I will therefore make preparation for it.” So David provided materials in great quantity before his death. …
1 Peter 4:8-11 ESV / 9 helpful votes
Above all, keep loving one another earnestly, since love covers a multitude of sins. Show hospitality to one another without grumbling. As each has received a gift, use it to serve one another, as good stewards of God’s varied grace: whoever speaks, as one who speaks oracles of God; whoever serves, as one who serves by the strength that God supplies—in order that in everything God may be glorified through Jesus Christ. To him belong glory and dominion forever and ever. Amen.
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