12 Bible Verses about Metaphorical Pillars

Raising up the weak from the dust, he will raise up the needy from the dung-hill to sit with the noble, and he will cause them to inherit a throne of glory, for to Jehovah the castings of the earth, and he will put the habitable globe upon them.

Moving the earth from her place, and her pillars will tremble;

The pillars of the heavens shall be shaken, and be astonished from his reproof.

The earth and all dwelling in it being melted: I made even its pillars. Silence.

And her pillars were broken in pieces, and all making wages, sorrowful in soul.

Wisdom built her house, she hewed out her seven pillars:

And if I delay, that thou shouldest know how thou must be occupied in the house of God, which is the church of the living God, the pillar and base of the truth.

He conquering, I will make him a pillar in the temple of my God, and without shall he no more come forth: and I will write upon him the name of my God, and the name of the city of my God, the new Jerusalem, which comes down from heaven from my God: and my new name.

That our sons as plants growing great in their youth, our daughters as corners variegated, the likeness of a temple:

Behold, I gave thee this day for a fortified city and for a pillar of iron and for a wall of brass upon all the land to the kings of Judah, to her chiefs, to her priests, and to the people of the land.

With the hoofs of his horses he will tread down all thy streets: he will slay thy people with the sword, and the garrisons of thy strength shall go down to the earth.

And having known the grace given to me, James, and Cephas, and John, seeming to be pillars, gave me and Barnabas the right hands of communion; that we for the nations, and they for the circumcision.