12 Bible Verses about Metaphorical Pillars

He raises the poor up from the dust, he lifts up the needy from the trash heap to make them sit with princes and inherit a seat of honor. Indeed the pillars of the earth belong to the LORD, and he has set the world on them.

He shakes the earth from its orbit, so that its foundations shudder.

The pillars of the heavens tremble and are astounded at his rebuke.

While the earth and all its inhabitants melt away, it is I who keep its pillars firm." Interlude

Egypt's workers in cloth will be crushed, and all who work for wages will be sick at heart."

Wisdom has built her house; she has hewn out her seven pillars.

in case I am delayed, so that you may know how to behave in God's household, which is the church of the living God, the pillar and foundation of the truth.

I will make the one who conquers to become a pillar in the sanctuary of my God, and he will never go out of it again. I will write on him the name of my God, the name of the city of my God (the new Jerusalem coming down out of heaven from God), and my own new name.

May our sons in their youth be like full-grown plants, and our daughters like pillars destined to decorate a palace.

"As for me, today I'm making you a fortified city, an iron pillar, and a bronze wall against the whole land against the kings of Judah, against its princes, against its priests, and against the people of the land.

""Their horses will trample all the public places as he executes your inhabitants with swords. The most fortified of your pillars will be torn to the ground.

So when James, Cephas, and John (who were reputed to be leaders) recognized the grace that had been given me, they gave Barnabas and me the right hand of fellowship, agreeing that we should go to the gentiles and they to the circumcised.