Proverbs 9:1

Bible in Basic English (1941)

Wisdom has made her house, putting up her seven pillars.

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  • Eph 2:20-22 : 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.
  • Matt 16:18 : 18 And I say to you that you are Peter, and on this rock will my church be based, and the doors of hell will not overcome it.
  • 1 Cor 3:9-9 : 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; 13 Every man's work will be made clear in that day, because it will be tested by fire; and the fire itself will make clear the quality of every man's work. 14 If any man's work comes through the test, he will have a reward. 15 If the fire puts an end to any man's work, it will be his loss: but he will get salvation himself, though as by fire.
  • Gal 2:9 : 9 When they saw the grace which was given to me, James and Cephas and John, who had the name of being pillars, gave to me and Barnabas their right hands as friends so that we might go to the Gentiles, and they to the circumcision;
  • 1 Kgs 7:2-3 : 2 And he made the house of the Woods of Lebanon, which was a hundred cubits long and fifty cubits wide and thirty cubits high, resting on four lines of cedar-wood pillars with cedar-wood supports on the pillars. 3 And it was covered with cedar over the forty-five supports which were on the pillars, fifteen in a line.
  • 1 Kgs 7:6 : 6 And he made a covered room of pillars, fifty cubits long and thirty cubits wide, and ... with steps before it.
  • 1 Kgs 7:21 : 21 He put up the pillars at the doorway of the Temple, naming the one on the right Jachin, and that on the left Boaz.
  • 1 Tim 3:15 : 15 But if I am long in coming, this will make clear to you what behaviour is right for men in the house of God, which is the church of the living God, the pillar and base of what is true.
  • Heb 3:3-6 : 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. 4 For every house has a builder; but the builder of all things is God. 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.
  • 1 Pet 2:5-6 : 5 You, as living stones, are being made into a house of the spirit, a holy order of priests, making those offerings of the spirit which are pleasing to God through Jesus Christ. 6 Because it is said in the Writings, See, I am placing a keystone in Zion, of great and special value; and the man who has faith in him will not be put to shame.
  • Rev 3:12 : 12 Him who overcomes I will make a pillar in the house of my God, and he will go out no more: and I will put on him the name of my God, and the name of the town of my God, the new Jerusalem, which comes down out of heaven from my God, and my new name.

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  • Prov 24:3-4
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    3 The building of a house is by wisdom, and by reason it is made strong:

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  • Prov 14:1
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    1 Wisdom is building her house, but the foolish woman is pulling it down with her hands.

  • Prov 9:13-16
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    13 The foolish woman is full of noise; she has no sense at all.

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  • Eccl 7:19
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    19 Wisdom makes a wise man stronger than ten rulers in a town.

  • 2 Chr 9:3
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    3 And when the queen of Sheba had seen the wisdom of Solomon, and the house which he had made,

  • Prov 8:11-12
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    11 For wisdom is better than jewels, and all things which may be desired are nothing in comparison with her.

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  • Prov 3:16-19
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    16 Long life is in her right hand, and in her left are wealth and honour.

    17 Her ways are ways of delight, and all her goings are peace.

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  • Prov 8:1-2
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    1 Is not wisdom crying out, and the voice of knowledge sounding?

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  • Prov 1:20-21
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    20 Wisdom is crying out in the street; her voice is loud in the open places;

    21 Her words are sounding in the meeting-places, and in the doorways of the town:

  • Prov 4:7-8
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    7 The first sign of wisdom is to get wisdom; go, give all you have to get true knowledge.

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  • Prov 7:26-27
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    26 For those wounded and made low by her are great in number; and all those who have come to their death through her are a great army.

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  • 1 Kgs 10:4
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    4 And when the queen of Sheba had seen all the wisdom of Solomon, and the house which he had made,

  • Song 8:9
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    9 If she is a wall, we will make on her a strong base of silver; and if she is a door, we will let her be shut up with cedar-wood.

  • Eccl 9:13
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    13 This again I have seen under the sun as wisdom and it seemed great to me.

  • Prov 8:14
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    14 Wise design and good sense are mine; reason and strength are mine.

  • Eccl 7:11
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    11 Wisdom together with a heritage is good, and a profit to those who see the sun.

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    9 All these buildings were made, inside and out, from base to crowning stone, and outside to the great walled square, of highly priced stone, cut to different sizes with cutting-instruments.

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    4 Say to wisdom, You are my sister; let knowledge be named your special friend:

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    10 He made its pillars of silver, its base of gold, its seat of purple, the middle of it of ebony.

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

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    14 For trading in it is better than trading in silver, and its profit greater than bright gold.

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    6 Looking out from my house, and watching through the window,

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  • Prov 2:18
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    18 For her house is on the way down to death; her footsteps go down to the shades:

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    4 The hearts of the wise are in the house of weeping; but the hearts of the foolish are in the house of joy.

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    8 Walking in the street near the turn of her road, going on the way to her house,

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    11 And he said to me, To make a house for her in the land of Shinar: and they will make a place ready, and put her there in the place which is hers.

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    11 She is full of noise and uncontrolled; her feet keep not in her house.

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    22 A wise man goes up into the town of the strong ones, and overcomes its strength in which they put their faith.

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    18 Wisdom is better than instruments of war, but one sinner is the destruction of much good.

  • 1 Kgs 7:6
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    6 And he made a covered room of pillars, fifty cubits long and thirty cubits wide, and ... with steps before it.

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    25 I gave my mind to knowledge and to searching for wisdom and the reason of things, and to the discovery that sin is foolish, and that to be foolish is to be without one's senses.

  • Jer 22:14
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    14 Who says, I will make a wide house for myself, and rooms of great size, and has windows cut out, and has it roofed with cedar and painted with bright red.

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    2 To have knowledge of wise teaching; to be clear about the words of reason: