Proverbs 24:27

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Prepare your work outside and get your fields ready; after that, build your house.

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Referenced Verses

  • 1 Kgs 5:17-18 : 17 You know that my father, David, could not build a house for the name of the LORD his God because of the wars waged against him from all directions until the LORD put his enemies under the soles of his feet. 18 But now the LORD my God has given me rest on every side; there is neither adversary nor misfortune.
  • 1 Kgs 6:7 : 7 The house, when it was being built, was constructed of finished stone cut from the quarry, so that no hammer or axe or any iron tool was heard in the house while it was being built.
  • Luke 14:28-30 : 28 For which of you, wishing to build a tower, does not first sit down and calculate the cost to see if he has enough to complete it? 29 Otherwise, if he lays the foundation and is not able to finish it, everyone who sees it will ridicule him, 30 saying, ‘This man began to build and was not able to finish.’

Similar Verses (AI)

These verses are found using AI-powered semantic similarity based on meaning and context. Results may occasionally include unexpected connections.

  • Prov 24:28-30
    3 verses
    77%

    28Do not be a false witness against your neighbor or deceive with your lips.

    29Do not say, 'I will do to him as he has done to me; I will repay the man according to his deeds.'

    30I passed by the field of a sluggard, by the vineyard of one lacking sense.

  • Jer 29:5
    74%

    5Build houses and settle in them. Plant gardens and eat their fruit.

  • Prov 24:3
    73%

    3By wisdom a house is built, and through understanding it is established.

  • Jer 22:13-14
    2 verses
    73%

    13Woe to him who builds his house without righteousness and his upper rooms without justice, making his neighbor work for nothing and not paying him for his labor.

    14He says, 'I will build for myself a great house with spacious upper rooms,' cutting out large windows for it, paneling it with cedar, and painting it with vermilion.

  • Matt 24:17-18
    2 verses
    73%

    17'Let no one on the housetop come down to take anything out of their house.'

    18And let the one who is in the field not turn back to get their cloak.

  • Deut 28:30
    73%

    30You will become engaged to a woman, but another man will violate her. You will build a house, but you will not live in it. You will plant a vineyard, but you will not enjoy its fruit.

  • Job 27:18
    72%

    18He builds his house like a moth’s cocoon, like a hut made by a watchman.

  • Ps 128:2
    72%

    2You will eat the fruit of your labor; you will be blessed, and it will go well with you.

  • Prov 25:8-9
    2 verses
    72%

    8Do not go hastily to court, lest you do something in the end that leaves you humiliated when your neighbor puts you to shame.

    9Debate your case with your neighbor, but do not reveal another’s secret.

  • Prov 27:23
    72%

    23Know well the condition of your flocks, and give attention to your herds.

  • Ps 127:1
    71%

    1Unless the Lord builds the house, the builders labor in vain. Unless the Lord watches over the city, the watchmen stay awake in vain.

  • Prov 14:1
    71%

    1Wise women build their homes, but foolish ones tear theirs down with their own hands.

  • Prov 5:10
    71%

    10Lest strangers feast on your strength, and your hard-earned wealth end up in the house of a foreigner.

  • Prov 24:26
    71%

    26An honest answer is like a kiss on the lips.

  • Prov 25:17
    71%

    17Seldom set foot in your neighbor’s house, lest he become weary of you and hate you.

  • Prov 24:15
    70%

    15Do not lie in ambush, wicked person, at the house of the righteous; do not destroy their resting place.

  • Prov 22:28-29
    2 verses
    70%

    28Do not remove the ancient boundary stone set up by your ancestors.

    29Do you see someone skilled in their work? They will serve before kings; they will not serve before obscure people.

  • Job 24:6
    70%

    6In the fields, they reap the fodder; they glean the vineyard of the wicked.

  • Matt 24:44
    70%

    44So you also must be ready, because the Son of Man will come at an hour when you do not expect him.

  • Mark 13:15-16
    2 verses
    70%

    15Let the one who is on the rooftop not go down or enter the house to take anything out.

    16And let the one who is in the field not turn back to get their cloak.

  • Eccl 10:18
    70%

    18Because of laziness, the roof sinks, and through idle hands, the house leaks.

  • Prov 25:24
    70%

    24Better to live on a corner of the roof than to share a house with a contentious wife.

  • Deut 8:12
    70%

    12Otherwise, when you have eaten and are satisfied, and have built fine houses and settled in them,

  • Prov 31:27
    70%

    27She watches over the affairs of her household and does not eat the bread of idleness.

  • Prov 4:25-26
    2 verses
    69%

    25Let your eyes look straight ahead; fix your gaze directly before you.

    26Consider the path of your feet, and all your ways will be established.

  • Deut 22:8
    69%

    8When you build a new house, make a parapet around your roof so that you do not bring bloodguilt upon your house if someone falls from it.

  • Luke 17:31
    69%

    31On that day, no one who is on the housetop with possessions inside should go down to get them. Likewise, no one in the field should turn back for anything.

  • Prov 3:29
    69%

    29Do not plot harm against your neighbor who lives trustingly beside you.

  • 2 Chr 24:13
    69%

    13The workers diligently carried out their tasks, and the restoration of the temple made steady progress under their hands. They rebuilt the house of God according to its original design and strengthened it.

  • Prov 5:8
    69%

    8Keep your way far from her, and do not go near the door of her house.

  • 2 Kgs 22:6
    69%

    6the carpenters, builders, and masons. It shall also be used to buy timber and quarried stone for repairing the house.

  • Ps 104:23
    69%

    23Man goes out to his work and to his labor until evening.

  • Num 32:24
    69%

    24Build cities for your children and pens for your flocks, but do what you have promised.

  • Job 22:21
    69%

    21Be reconciled with God now, and at peace with Him; this will bring good to you.

  • Prov 14:23
    69%

    23In all hard work there is profit, but mere talk leads only to poverty.

  • Prov 21:9
    69%

    9It is better to live on the corner of a roof than to share a house with a contentious wife.

  • 2 Chr 2:9
    69%

    9I will give your servants, the woodcutters who cut the timber, twenty thousand cors of crushed wheat, twenty thousand cors of barley, twenty thousand gallons of wine, and twenty thousand gallons of oil.

  • Hag 1:8
    69%

    8Go up into the mountains, bring down timber, and build the house, so that I may be pleased with it and be glorified, says the LORD.

  • Deut 24:11
    69%

    11You must wait outside while the person to whom you are lending brings the pledge out to you.

  • Prov 24:33
    69%

    33A little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to rest,

  • Matt 7:24
    69%

    24Therefore, everyone who hears these words of mine and acts on them is like a wise man who built his house on the rock.

  • Prov 6:8
    69%

    8yet she prepares her food in the summer and gathers her provisions at harvest.