12 Bible Verses about Metaphorical Pillars

He raises up the poor out of the dust and lifts up the beggar from the dunghill to set them among princes and to make them inherit the throne of glory. For the pillars of the earth are the LORD's, and he has set the world upon them.

Who removes the earth out of her place and causes her pillars to tremble.

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

The earth and all its inhabitants are dissolved; I bore up the pillars of it. Selah.

Because all their nets shall be broken; all that make ponds to raise fish shall be discontented.

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

But if I tarry long, that thou may know how it is expedient to behave thyself in the house of God, which is the congregation of the living God, the pillar and base of the truth.

He that overcomes I will make a pillar in the temple of my God, and he shall go out no more, and I will write upon him the name of my God, and the name of the city of my God which is the new Jerusalem, which comes down out of heaven from and with my God, and I will write upon him my new name.

That our sons may be as plants grown up in their youth; that our daughters may be as corner stones, polished after the similitude of a palace;

For, behold, I have made thee this day as a defenced city and as an iron pillar and as a wall of brass upon all the earth against the kings of Judah, against its princes, against its priests, and against the people of the land.

With the hoofs of his horses he shall tread down all thy streets; he shall slay thy people by the sword, and the statues of thy strength shall fall to the ground.

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