Except the LORD build the house, they labour in vain that build it: except the LORD keep the city, the watchman waketh but in vain.


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Isaiah 25 2 For thou hast made of a city an heap; of a defenced city a ruin: a palace of strangers to be no city; it shall never be built.
Job 8 15 He shall lean upon his house, but it shall not stand: he shall hold it fast, but it shall not endure.
Jeremiah 49 31 Arise, get you up unto the wealthy nation, that dwelleth without care, saith the LORD, which have neither gates nor bars, which dwell alone.
Proverbs 14 1 Every wise woman buildeth her house: but the foolish plucketh it down with her hands.
Job 24 12 Men groan from out of the city, and the soul of the wounded crieth out: yet God layeth not folly to them.
2 Chronicles 6 9 Notwithstanding thou shalt not build the house; but thy son which shall come forth out of thy loins, he shall build the house for my name.
Haggai 1 9 Ye looked for much, and, lo it came to little; and when ye brought it home, I did blow upon it. Why? saith the LORD of hosts. Because of mine house that is waste, and ye run every man unto his own house.
Hebrews 3 4 For every house is builded by some man; but he that built all things is God.
1 Kings 8 19 Nevertheless thou shalt not build the house; but thy son that shall come forth out of thy loins, he shall build the house unto my name.
Psalms 39 6 Surely every man walketh in a vain shew: surely they are disquieted in vain: he heapeth up riches, and knoweth not who shall gather them.
Proverbs 5 10 Lest strangers be filled with thy wealth; and thy labours be in the house of a stranger;
Proverbs 11 29 He that troubleth his own house shall inherit the wind: and the fool shall be servant to the wise of heart.
Matthew 10 13 And if the house be worthy, let your peace come upon it: but if it be not worthy, let your peace return to you.
Ecclesiastes 2 21 For there is a man whose labour is in wisdom, and in knowledge, and in equity; yet to a man that hath not laboured therein shall he leave it for his portion. This also is vanity and a great evil.
Amos 5 9 That strengtheneth the spoiled against the strong, so that the spoiled shall come against the fortress.
Luke 6 49 But he that heareth, and doeth not, is like a man that without a foundation built an house upon the earth; against which the stream did beat vehemently, and immediately it fell; and the ruin of that house was great.
John 8 35 And the servant abideth not in the house for ever: but the Son abideth ever.
Matthew 6 19 Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal:
Proverbs 25 8 Go not forth hastily to strive, lest thou know not what to do in the end thereof, when thy neighbour hath put thee to shame.
Proverbs 28 19 He that tilleth his land shall have plenty of bread: but he that followeth after vain persons shall have poverty enough.
Ecclesiastes 10 15 The labour of the foolish wearieth every one of them, because he knoweth not how to go to the city.
Jeremiah 17 24 And it shall come to pass, if ye diligently hearken unto me, saith the LORD, to bring in no burden through the gates of this city on the sabbath day, but hallow the sabbath day, to do no work therein;
Isaiah 40 20 He that is so impoverished that he hath no oblation chooseth a tree that will not rot; he seeketh unto him a cunning workman to prepare a graven image, that shall not be moved.
Deuteronomy 8 12 Lest when thou hast eaten and art full, and hast built goodly houses, and dwelt therein;
Proverbs 3 33 The curse of the LORD is in the house of the wicked: but he blesseth the habitation of the just.
1 Kings 14 12 Arise thou therefore, get thee to thine own house: and when thy feet enter into the city, the child shall die.
1 Corinthians 3 9 For we are labourers together with God: ye are God's husbandry, ye are God's building.
Deuteronomy 22 8 When thou buildest a new house, then thou shalt make a battlement for thy roof, that thou bring not blood upon thine house, if any man fall from thence.
Proverbs 24 27 Prepare thy work without, and make it fit for thyself in the field; and afterwards build thine house.
Isaiah 14 4 That thou shalt take up this proverb against the king of Babylon, and say, How hath the oppressor ceased! the golden city ceased!
Ecclesiastes 10 20 Curse not the king, no not in thy thought; and curse not the rich in thy bedchamber: for a bird of the air shall carry the voice, and that which hath wings shall tell the matter.
Haggai 1 2 Thus speaketh the LORD of hosts, saying, This people say, The time is not come, the time that the LORD's house should be built.
Isaiah 5 9 In mine ears said the LORD of hosts, Of a truth many houses shall be desolate, even great and fair, without inhabitant.
1 Samuel 12 21 And turn ye not aside: for then should ye go after vain things, which cannot profit nor deliver; for they are vain.
1 Chronicles 28 3 But God said unto me, Thou shalt not build an house for my name, because thou hast been a man of war, and hast shed blood.
Luke 14 29 Lest haply, after he hath laid the foundation, and is not able to finish it, all that behold it begin to mock him,
Nehemiah 2 3 And said unto the king, Let the king live for ever: why should not my countenance be sad, when the city, the place of my fathers' sepulchres, lieth waste, and the gates thereof are consumed with fire?
Isaiah 57 13 When thou criest, let thy companies deliver thee; but the wind shall carry them all away; vanity shall take them: but he that putteth his trust in me shall possess the land, and shall inherit my holy mountain;
Jeremiah 22 13 Woe unto him that buildeth his house by unrighteousness, and his chambers by wrong; that useth his neighbour's service without wages, and giveth him not for his work;
Amos 5 11 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.
Proverbs 13 11 Wealth gotten by vanity shall be diminished: but he that gathereth by labour shall increase.
Habakkuk 2 13 Behold, is it not of the LORD of hosts that the people shall labour in the very fire, and the people shall weary themselves for very vanity?
Matthew 7 26 And every one that heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them not, shall be likened unto a foolish man, which built his house upon the sand:
Jeremiah 35 9 Nor to build houses for us to dwell in: neither have we vineyard, nor field, nor seed:
Psalms 134 1 Behold, bless ye the LORD, all ye servants of the LORD, which by night stand in the house of the LORD.
Leviticus 26 20 And your strength shall be spent in vain: for your land shall not yield her increase, neither shall the trees of the land yield their fruits.
Ecclesiastes 12 3 In the day when the keepers of the house shall tremble, and the strong men shall bow themselves, and the grinders cease because they are few, and those that look out of the windows be darkened,
1 Samuel 2 7 The LORD maketh poor, and maketh rich: he bringeth low, and lifteth up.
Luke 13 35 Behold, your house is left unto you desolate: and verily I say unto you, Ye shall not see me, until the time come when ye shall say, Blessed is he that cometh in the name of the Lord.
Proverbs 25 28 He that hath no rule over his own spirit is like a city that is broken down, and without walls.