Hebrews 3:4

Bible in Basic English (1941)

For every house has a builder; but the builder of all things is God.

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Referenced Verses

  • Esth 2:10 : 10 Esther had not said what family or people she came from, for Mordecai had given her orders not to do so.
  • Heb 1:2 : 2 But now, at the end of these days, it has come to us through his Son, to whom he has given all things for a heritage, and through whom he made the order of the generations;
  • Heb 3:3 : 3 And it was right for this man to have more honour than Moses, even as the builder of a house has more honour than the house.
  • Esth 3:9 : 9 If it is the king's pleasure, let a statement ordering their destruction be put in writing: and I will give to those responsible for the king's business, ten thousand talents of silver for the king's store-house.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Heb 3:2-3
    2 verses
    82%

    2 Who kept faith with God who gave him his place, even as Moses did in all his house.

    3 And it was right for this man to have more honour than Moses, even as the builder of a house has more honour than the house.

  • 1 Cor 3:9-12
    4 verses
    76%

    9 For we are workers with God: you are God's planting, God's building.

    10 In the measure of the grace given to me, I, as a wise master-builder, have put the base in position, and another goes on building on it. But let every man take care what he puts on it.

    11 For there is no other base for the building but that which has been put down, which is Jesus Christ.

    12 But on the base a man may put gold, silver, stones of great price, wood, dry grass, cut stems;

  • 2 Chr 2:5-6
    2 verses
    75%

    5 And the house which I am building is to be great, for our God is greater than all gods.

    6 But who may have strength enough to make a house for him, seeing that the heaven and the heaven of heavens are not wide enough to be his resting-place? who am I then to make a house for him? But I am building it only for the burning of perfume before him.

  • Acts 7:47-50
    4 verses
    74%

    47 But Solomon was the builder of his house.

    48 But still, the Most High has not his resting-place in houses made with hands, as the prophet says,

    49 Heaven is the seat of my power, and earth is a resting-place for my feet: what sort of house will you make for me, says the Lord, or what is my place of rest?

    50 Did not my hand make all these things?

  • Acts 17:24-25
    2 verses
    74%

    24 The God who made the earth and everything in it, he, being Lord of heaven and earth, is not housed in buildings made with hands;

    25 And he is not dependent on the work of men's hands, as if he had need of anything, for he himself gives to all life and breath and all things;

  • 2 Cor 5:1
    73%

    1 For we are conscious that if this our tent of flesh is taken down, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal, in heaven.

  • Heb 3:5-6
    2 verses
    73%

    5 And Moses certainly kept faith as a servant, in all his house, and as a witness of those things which were to be said later;

    6 But Christ as a son, over his house; whose house are we, if we keep our hearts fixed in the glad and certain hope till the end.

  • Prov 24:3
    73%

    3 The building of a house is by wisdom, and by reason it is made strong:

  • 1 Chr 29:16
    73%

    16 O Lord our God, all this store, which we have made ready for the building of a house for your holy name, comes from your hand and is yours.

  • Eph 2:20-22
    3 verses
    73%

    20 Resting on the base of the Apostles and prophets, Christ Jesus himself being the chief keystone,

    21 In whom all the building, rightly joined together, comes to be a holy house of God in the Lord;

    22 In whom you, with the rest, are united together as a living-place of God in the Spirit.

  • Heb 11:10
    71%

    10 For he was looking for the strong town, whose builder and maker is God.

  • 2 Chr 6:18
    70%

    18 But is it truly possible that God may be housed with men on earth? see, heaven and the heaven of heavens are not wide enough to be your resting-place: how much less this house which I have made:

  • 1 Cor 3:16-17
    2 verses
    70%

    16 Do you not see that you are God's holy house, and that the Spirit of God has his place in you?

    17 If anyone makes the house of God unclean, God will put an end to him; for the house of God is holy, and you are his house.

  • Col 1:16-17
    2 verses
    70%

    16 For by him all things were made, in heaven and on earth, things seen and things unseen, authorities, lords, rulers, and powers; all things were made by him and for him;

    17 He is before all things, and in him all things have being.

  • Heb 8:2
    70%

    2 As a servant of the holy things and of the true Tent, which was put up by God, not by man.

  • Heb 11:3
    69%

    3 By faith it is clear to us that the order of events was fixed by the word of God, so that what is seen has not been made from things which only seem to be.

  • Ps 127:1
    69%

    1 <A Song of the going up. Of Solomon.> If the Lord is not helping the builders, then the building of a house is to no purpose: if the Lord does not keep the town, the watchman keeps his watch for nothing.

  • 1 Chr 22:2
    69%

    2 And David gave orders to get together all the men from strange lands who were in the land of Israel; and he put stone-cutters to work, cutting stones for building the house of God.

  • Heb 1:10
    69%

    10 You, Lord, at the first did put the earth on its base, and the heavens are the works of your hands:

  • 1 Kgs 8:27
    69%

    27 But is it truly possible that God may be housed on earth? see, heaven and the heaven of heavens are not wide enough to be your resting-place; how much less this house which I have made!

  • 1 Cor 8:6
    69%

    6 There is for us only one God, the Father, of whom are all things, and we are for him; and one Lord, Jesus Christ, through whom are all things, and we have our being through him.

  • Heb 10:21
    68%

    21 And having a great priest over the house of God,

  • Job 27:18
    68%

    18 His house has no more strength than a spider's thread, or a watchman's tent.

  • John 1:3
    68%

    3 All things came into existence through him, and without him nothing was.

  • 1 Chr 17:12
    68%

    12 He will be the builder of my house, and I will make the seat of his authority certain for ever.

  • Eph 4:6
    68%

    6 One God and Father of all, who is over all, and through all, and in all.

  • Prov 14:1
    68%

    1 Wisdom is building her house, but the foolish woman is pulling it down with her hands.

  • 1 Cor 3:14
    68%

    14 If any man's work comes through the test, he will have a reward.

  • Ezra 1:3
    68%

    3 Whoever there is among you of his people, may his God be with him, and let him go up to Jerusalem, which is in Judah, and take in hand the building of the house of the Lord, the God of Israel; he is the God who is in Jerusalem.

  • 2 Chr 6:2
    68%

    2 So I have made for you a living-place, a house in which you may be for ever present.

  • Amos 9:6
    68%

    6 It is he who makes his rooms in the heaven, basing his arch on the earth; whose voice goes out to the waters of the sea, and sends them flowing over the face of the earth; the Lord is his name.

  • Hag 1:8
    68%

    8 Go up to the hills and get wood and put up the house; and I will take pleasure in it and be honoured, says the Lord.

  • 1 Kgs 8:17
    67%

    17 Now it was in the heart of David my father to put up a house for the name of the Lord, the God of Israel.

  • 1 Kgs 8:13
    67%

    13 So I have made for you a living-place, a house in which you may be for ever present.

  • 2 Chr 6:7
    67%

    7 Now it was in the heart of my father David to put up a house for the name of the Lord, the God of Israel.

  • 2 Chr 2:9
    67%

    9 To get trees for me in great numbers, for the house which I am building is to be great and a wonder.