11 Bible Verses about Building Houses

Through wisdom a house is built, and by understanding it is established,

Unless LORD builds the house, they labor in vain who build it. Unless LORD guards the city, the watchman wake but in vain.

Lest, when thou have eaten and are full, and have built goodly houses, and dwelt in it,

Woe to him who builds his house by unrighteousness, and his chambers by injustice, who uses his neighbor's service without wages, and gives him not his hire, who says, I will build me a wide house and spacious chambers, and cuts out windows for himself, and it is overlaid with cedar, and painted with vermilion.

Ye looked for much, and, lo, it came to little, and when ye brought it home, I blew upon it. Why? says LORD of hosts. Because of my house that lays waste while ye run each man to his own house.

Is it a time for you yourselves to dwell in your paneled houses while this house lays waste?

Inasmuch therefore as ye trample upon the poor, and take exactions of wheat from him. Ye have built houses of hewn stone, but ye shall not dwell in them. Ye have planted pleasant vineyards, but ye shall not drink the wine thereof.

And the king sent and called for Shimei, and said to him, Build for thee a house in Jerusalem, and dwell there, and go not forth from there anywhere.

And he said to me, To build her a house in the land of Shinar. And when it is prepared, she shall be set there in her own place.

For this man was considered worthy of more glory than Moses, by so much as he who built it has more esteem than the house.

For every house is built by some man, but he who built all things is God.