11 Bible Verses about Building Houses

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

A Song of degrees for Solomon. Unless Jehovah builds the house, they labor in vain who build it; unless Jehovah keeps the city, the watchman stays awake in vain.

lest when you have eaten and are full and have built good houses and lived in them,

Woe to him who builds his house by unrighteousness and his upper rooms without justice; his neighbor serves without pay, and he does not give him for his work; who says, I will build myself a wide house and large rooms, and cuts out windows for himself, and puts in a cedar ceiling, and paints it with vermilion.

You looked for much, and behold, little! And when you brought it home, then I blew on it. Why, says Jehovah of Hosts? Because of My House that is waste, and you, each man runs to his own house.

Is it time for you yourselves to dwell in your finished houses, and shall this House lie waste?

So, because of your trampling on the poor, and you take tribute of grain from him; you have built houses of carved stone, but you shall not dwell in them; you have planted desirable vineyards, but you shall not drink wine from them.

And the king sent and called for Shimei, and said to him, Build a house at Jerusalem and live there, and do not go forth from there anywhere.

And he said to me, To build a house for it in the land of Shinar; and it shall be established and set there on its own base.

For He was counted worthy of more glory than Moses, because he who has built the house has more honor than the house.

For every house is built by someone, but He who built all things is God.