Building a house is a dream to each family. You can use these 24 Bible verses to write when you’re building a house to add sweet Scripture to the foundation of your new home.
Building a new house from the ground up is a big milestone for many families and individuals. It is often a vigorous process that takes many months, and can involve setbacks, small victories and patiently watching it all come together into a place you will soon call home.
Even in the process of house building, we can learn and be encouraged by Scripture. As you start this process, you can lay a precious foundation that reaches beyond the physical building.
1. Psalm 127:1 – Unless The Lord Builds The House
Unless the Lord builds the house, the builders labor in vain. Unless the Lord watches over the city, the guards stand watch in vain.
2. Proverbs 24:3-4 – A House Is Built By Wisdom
By wisdom a house is built, and through understanding it is established; through knowledge its rooms are filled with rare and beautiful treasures.
3. Matthew 7:24-27 – A House Build On The Rock Versus A House Built On Sand
“Therefore everyone who hears these words of mine and puts them into practice is like a wise man who built his house on the rock. The rain came down, the streams rose, and the winds blew and beat against that house; yet it did not fall, because it had its foundation on the rock. But everyone who hears these words of mine and does not put them into practice is like a foolish man who built his house on sand. The rain came down, the streams rose, and the winds blew and beat against that house, and it fell with a great crash.”
4. Hebrews 3:4 – God is the Builder of Everything
For every house is built by someone, but God is the builder of everything.
5. Isaiah 65:21-22 – God’s People Will Enjoy The Work of Their Hands
They will build houses and dwell in them; they will plant vineyards and eat their fruit. No longer will they build houses and others live in them, or plant and others eat. For as the days of a tree, so will be the days of my people; my chosen ones will long enjoy the work of their hands.
6. Luke 14:28 – Estimating if You Can Complete Your Project
Suppose one of you wants to build a tower. Won’t you first sit down and estimate the cost to see if you have enough money to complete it?
7. 1 Samuel 25:6 – A Blessing of Health To Your Household
Say to him: ‘Long life to you! Good health to you and your household! And good health to all that is yours!
8. 1 Corinthians 1:3-9 – Peace And Grace Blessing
Grace and peace to you from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. I always thank my God for you because of his grace given you in Christ Jesus. For in him you have been enriched in every way—with all kinds of speech and with all knowledge – God thus confirming our testimony about Christ among you. Therefore you do not lack any spiritual gift as you eagerly wait for our Lord Jesus Christ to be revealed. He will also keep you firm to the end, so that you will be blameless on the day of our Lord Jesus Christ. God is faithful, who has called you into fellowship with his Son, Jesus Christ our Lord.
9. Colossians 3:23 – Work As You Are Working for the Lord
Whatever you do, work at it with all your heart, as working for the Lord, not for human masters.
10. Mark 12:3-31 – Love God, Love People
Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.’ The second is this: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’ There is no commandment greater than these.”
11. Isaiah 66:1-2 – Be Humble and Contrite in Spirit
This is what the Lord says: “Heaven is my throne, and the earth is my footstool. Where is the house you will build for me? Where will my resting place be? Has not my hand made all these things, and so they came into being?” declares the Lord. “These are the ones I look on with favor: those who are humble and contrite in spirit, and who tremble at my word.
12. Lamentations 3:22-23 – The Lord’s Mercies Are New Each Day
Because of the Lord’s great love we are not consumed, for his compassions never fail. They are new every morning; great is your faithfulness.
13. Psalm 121:8 – God’s Protection Over Your Coming and Going
The Lord will watch over your coming and going both now and forevermore.
14. Luke 6:46-49 – Hearing God’s Word and Putting it into Action
“Why do you call me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ and do not do what I say? As for everyone who comes to me and hears my words and puts them into practice, I will show you what they are like. They are like a man building a house, who dug down deep and laid the foundation on rock. When a flood came, the torrent struck that house but could not shake it, because it was well built. But the one who hears my words and does not put them into practice is like a man who built a house on the ground without a foundation. The moment the torrent struck that house, it collapsed and its destruction was complete.”
15. Psalm 37:4 – Delight Yourself in the Lord
Take delight in the Lord, and he will give you the desires of your heart.
16. Ruth 1:16 – Where You Stay, I Will Stay
But Ruth replied, “Don’t urge me to leave you or to turn back from you. Where you go I will go, and where you stay I will stay. Your people will be my people and your God my God.
17. Proverbs 3:5-6 – Trust in the Lord, Not Your Own Understanding
Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding; in all your ways submit to him, and he will make your paths straight.
18. Ephesians 4:2 – Bear with One Another
Be completely humble and gentle; be patient, bearing with one another in love.
19. Proverbs 22:6 – Show Children the Way to Go
Start children off on the way they should go, and even when they are old they will not turn from it.
20. Joshua 24:15 – Me and My House, We Will Serve the Lord
But if serving the Lord seems undesirable to you, then choose for yourselves this day whom you will serve, whether the gods your ancestors served beyond the Euphrates, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land you are living. But as for me and my household, we will serve the Lord.