12 Bible Verses about Metaphorical Pillars

He raises up the poor out of the dust. He lifts up the needy from the dunghill, To make them sit with princes, and inherit the throne of glory. For the pillars of the earth are Yahweh's. He has set the world on them.

He shakes the earth out of its place. Its pillars tremble.

The pillars of heaven tremble and are astonished at his rebuke.

The earth and all its inhabitants quake. I firmly hold its pillars. Selah.

The pillars will be broken in pieces. All those who work for hire will be grieved in soul.

Wisdom has built her house. She has carved out her seven pillars.

but if I wait long, that you may know how men ought to behave themselves in the house of God, which is the assembly of the living God, the pillar and ground of the truth.

He who overcomes, I will make him a pillar in the temple of my God, and he will go out from there no more. I will write on him the name of my God, and the name of the city of my God, the new Jerusalem, which comes down out of heaven from my God, and my own new name.

Then our sons will be like well-nurtured plants, our daughters like pillars carved to adorn a palace.

For, behold, I have made you this day a fortified city, and an iron pillar, and bronze walls, against the whole land, against the kings of Judah, against its princes, against its priests, and against the people of the land.

With the hoofs of his horses shall he tread down all your streets; he shall kill your people with the sword; and the pillars of your strength shall go down to the ground.

and when they perceived the grace that was given to me, James and Cephas and John, they who were reputed to be pillars, gave to me and Barnabas the right hand of fellowship, that we should go to the Gentiles, and they to the circumcision.