60 Bible Verses about Property, Houses

Take a bunch of hyssop and dip it in the blood that is in the basin. Apply some of the blood that is in the basin to the lintel and the two doorposts. No one shall go outside the door of his house until morning.

Is it time for you to dwell in your roofed and covered houses, while this house is desolate?

Everyone who hears my words, and does them is like a wise man that builds his house on a rock. The rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew and beat upon that house; and it did not fall. It was built on a solid rock foundation. Every one who hears these words of mine and does not do them will be like a foolish man, who built his house upon the sand.read more.
The rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew and battered the house and it fell with a great crash.

He has been counted worthy of more glory than Moses. This is because the builder of the house has more honor than the house.

Even to this present hour we both hunger and thirst. We are naked. We are treated badly and we are homeless.

They are wet with the rain of the mountains. They cling to the rock in search of shelter.

Those used to feasting on delicate food are wasted in the streets. Those who as children were dressed in purple are stretched out on the dust.

Jesus told him: Foxes have holes and birds of heaven have nests, but the Son of man has nowhere to lay his head.

You shared the sufferings of prisoners. When all your belongings were seized, you endured your loss gladly. This is because you knew that you possessed something much better, which would last forever.

The houses will be full of good things that you did not put in them. There will be wells that you did not dig. There will be vineyards and olive orchards that you did not plant. Jehovah will bring you into this land and you will have all you want to eat. Beware that you do not forget Jehovah, for he brought you out of Egypt your house of bondage.

Everyone who has given up houses, or brothers, or sisters, or father, or mother, or child, or land, for my name, will receive many times as much, and have everlasting life.

How much more will he accuse those who live in clay houses that have their foundation in the dust? Those houses can be crushed quicker than a moth!

So the Egyptians put slave masters over them in order to oppress them through forced labor. They built Pithom and Rameses as supply (storage) cities for Pharaoh. However the more the Israelites were oppressed, the more they increased in number and spread out. The Egyptians could not stand them any longer. They forced the Israelites to work hard as slaves.read more.
They made their lives bitter with backbreaking work in mortar and bricks and every kind of work in the fields. All the jobs the Egyptians gave them were brutally hard work.

The bricks have fallen down, but we will rebuild with cut stones. The fig trees have been cut down, but we will replace them with cedars.

he must order the stones that have the mildew to be torn out and thrown outside the city in an unclean place.

The stones will cry out from the wall. The beams out of the woodwork will answer it.

Everything else that King Ahab did, including an account of his palace decorated with ivory and of all the cities he built, is recorded in The History of the Kings of Israel.

I will strike (destroy) the winter house and the summer house. The houses of ivory will perish, and the great houses will come to an end, said Jehovah.

([Psalm of Solomon]) If Jehovah does not build the house, it is vain for the builders to work on it. If Jehovah does not protect a city, it is vain for the guard to stay alert.

You shall say: 'It is a Passover sacrifice to Jehovah who passed over the houses of the sons of Israel in Egypt when He killed the Egyptians, but spared our homes. The people bowed low and worshiped.'

Joshua the son of Nun sent out of Shittim two men to spy secretly. He said: Go view the land of Jericho. They went to a prostitute named Rahab, and stayed at her house.

Her house is the way to the grave, going down to the chambers of death.

It is better to dwell on the corner of the roof than to share the house with a contentious (combative) woman.

One will ask him: What are these wounds between your arms? He will answer: Those with which I was wounded in the house of my friends.

Along the way he entered a village. A woman named Martha received him into her house.

Six days before the Passover Jesus traveled to Bethany. This was where Lazarus lived. He was the man Jesus raised from the dead. Jesus ate supper there. He and Lazarus sat at the meal while Martha served.

Go to the potter's house. There I will give you my message.

When you enter a house say; may this house have peace. If a son of peace lives there, your peace shall rest upon him. If not, it shall return to you again. Remain in that house eating and drinking what they give you. The laborer is worthy of his hire. Do not stay in different houses.

Go into a city or village and search for the worthy ones. Stay with them until you are ready to leave.

He said: When someone invites you to enter into a house, stay there until you leave.

Lot insisted, so at last they went home with him. He set a great feast before them, complete with fresh unleavened (unfermented) bread.

I was hungry and you gave me something to eat. I was thirsty and you gave me something to drink. I was a stranger and you took me in.

When she and her household were baptized she came to us saying, If you judge me to be faithful to God, come to my house, and stay there. She absolutely insisted that we come.

having a good reputation for good works, if she has brought up children, if she has been hospitable to strangers, if she has washed the feet of the holy ones, if she has relieved the afflicted, if she has diligently followed every good work.

Show hospitality to strangers, for some have entertained angels without knowing it.

I did not shrink from declaring to you anything that was profitable, and teaching you publicly, and from house to house.

Likewise greet the congregation that is in their house. Salute my well-beloved Epaenetus, who is of the first fruits (converts) of Asia to Christ.

The congregations of Asia greet you. Aquila and Priscilla greet you in the Lord, with the congregation that is in their house.

Greet the brothers who are in Laodicea, and Nympha, and the congregation that is in her house.

The king said to the prophet Nathan: I live in a house built of cedar. Yet the Ark of God is kept in a tent!

Solomon took thirteen years to build a palace for himself. The Hall of the Forest of Lebanon was one hundred and fifty feet long, seventy-five feet wide, and forty-five feet high.

At the end of twelve months he was walking in the royal palace of Babylon. The king spoke: Is this not great Babylon, which I have built for the royal dwelling-place, by the might of my power and for the glory of my majesty?

What did you expect to see, a man clothed in fancy clothes? Those who wear fancy clothes are in king's houses.

Do not covet (desire) another man's house. Do not desire his wife, his slaves, his cattle, his donkeys, or anything else that he owns.

They covet fields and seize them. They covet houses and confiscate them! They oppress a man and his house, even a man and his heritage.

If anyone sells a home in a walled city, for one year after selling it he has the right to buy it back. He may buy it back only within that time. If he does not buy it back during that year, the house in the city belongs to the buyer for generations to come. It will not be released in the jubilee. Houses in villages without walls are regarded as belonging to the fields of the land. They can be bought back. They will be released in the jubilee.read more.
The Levites always have the right to buy back their property in the cities they own. If any Levite buys back a house, in the jubilee the purchased house in the city will be released. This is because the houses in the Levite cities are their property among the Israelites.

when I let judges rule my people. I have kept your enemies from attacking you. Now I promise that you and your descendants will be kings.

Jehovah promised my father David: 'Your son, whom I will make king after you, will build a Temple for me. I have decided to build that Temple for the worship of Jehovah my God.'

Solomon began work on the Temple. It was four hundred and eighty years after the people of Israel left Egypt, during the fourth year of Solomon's reign over Israel, in the second month, the month of Ziv.

Then Jeshua with his sons and his brothers, Kadmiel with his sons, the sons of Hodaviah, together took up the work of overseeing the workmen in the house of God: the sons of Henadad with their sons and their brothers, the Levites. When the builders laid the foundation of the Temple of Jehovah, the priests, dressed in their robes, took their places with horns, and the Levites, the sons of Asaph, with brass instruments, to give praise to Jehovah in the way ordered by David, king of Israel.

Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life and I will dwell in the house of Jehovah forever.

I have asked one thing from Jehovah. This I will seek: to live in the house of Jehovah all the days of my life, to look at Jehovah's beauty and search for an answer in his temple.

One day in your courtyards is better than a thousand anywhere else. I would rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God, than to dwell in the tents of wickedness.

([Psalm of David]) I was glad when they said to me: Let us go to the house of Jehovah.

I will bring them to my holy mountain and give them joy in my house of prayer. Their burnt offerings and sacrifices will be accepted on my altar. My house will be called a house of prayer for all nations.

It will happen in that day that the mountains will drop sweet wine, and the hills will flow with milk. All the brooks of Judah will flow with water. A fountain will come forth from the house of Jehovah and water the valley of Shittim.

He told those who sold doves: Take these things away. Do not make my Father's house a house of merchandise. His disciples remembered what was written. 'Zeal for your house shall eat me up.' (Psalm 69:9)

Zeal for your house consumes me. The reproaches of those who reproach you have fallen on me.

So then you are no longer strangers and aliens. You are fellow citizens with the holy ones and of the household of God. You are built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets. Christ Jesus is the chief corner stone.

For we are fellow workers together with God. You are God's field under cultivation. You are God's building. According to the grace of God that is given to me, as a wise master builder, I have laid the foundation, and another builds on it. But let every man take heed how he builds. No other foundation can be laid than that which is laid, which is Jesus Christ.