12 Bible Verses about Metaphorical Pillars

He raises up the poor from [the] dust. From [the] ash heap he lifts up the needy, to cause them to sit with noble people and to cause them to inherit a seat of honor. For the pillars of the earth belong to Yahweh and he has set the inhabited world on them.

[He is the one] who shakes [the] earth from its place, and its pillars tremble.

"[The] pillars of heaven tremble, and they are astounded at his rebuke.

[The] earth and all its inhabitants [are] shaking; I steady its columns. Selah

And her weavers will be crushed; all [the] {hired workers} [will be] grieved of heart.

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

But if I am delayed, [I am writing] in order that you may know how one must conduct oneself in the household of God, which is the church of the living God, the pillar and mainstay of the truth.

The one who conquers, I will make him a pillar in the temple of my God, and he will never go outside again, and I will write on him the name of my God and the name of the city of my God, the new Jerusalem that comes down from heaven from my God, and my new name.

that our sons [may be] like plants, full grown in their youth, our daughters like corner pillars, carved in the style of a palace,

Now look, I have made you {today} as a fortified city and as an iron pillar and a bronze wall against all the land, against the kings of Judah, against its princes, against its priests, and against the people of the land.

With the hooves of his horses he will trample all of your streets. He will kill your people with the sword, and {your strong stone pillars} will tumble down to the earth.

and [when] James and Cephas and John--those thought to be pillars--acknowledged the grace given to me, they gave to me and Barnabas the right [hand] of fellowship, in order that we [should go] to the Gentiles and they to the circumcision.