11 Bible Verses about Building Houses

Through wisdom the house shall be built, and with intelligence it shall be established:

Unless the LORD builds the house, they labour in vain that build it; unless the LORD keeps the city, the watchmen watch in vain.

lest peradventure when thou hast eaten and art full and hast built goodly houses and dwelt therein,

Woe unto him that builds his house and not in righteousness and his chambers and not in judgment, using his neighbour's service without wages and not giving him the wages of his work! That saith, I will build me a wide house and large chambers, and cuts out windows in it and covers it with cedar and anoints it with vermilion.

Ye look for much and find little; and when ye lock it up at home, I shall blow upon it. Why? said the LORD of the hosts. Because my house is deserted, and ye run each one of you unto his own house.

Do you have time, all of you, to dwell in your panelled houses, and this house is deserted?

Forasmuch therefore as your treading is upon the poor, and ye take from him burdens of wheat, ye have built houses of hewn stone, but ye shall not dwell in them; ye have planted pleasant vineyards, but ye shall not drink wine of them.

Afterward the king sent and called for Shimei and said unto him, Build thee a house in Jerusalem and dwell there, and do not go forth from there anywhere.

And he said unto me, To build it a house in the land of Shinar: and it shall be established, and set there upon her own base.

For this man was counted worthy of more glory than Moses, inasmuch as he who has built the house has more honour than the house.

For every house is built by someone, but he that created all things is God.