Proverbs 24:27

KJV1611 – Modern English

Prepare your work outside, and make it ready for yourself in the field; afterward build your house.

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  • 1 Kgs 5:17-18 : 17 And the king commanded, and they quarried great stones, costly stones, and hewed stones, to lay the foundation of the house. 18 And Solomon's builders and Hiram's builders and the stonecutters quarried them; so they prepared timber and stones to build the house.
  • 1 Kgs 6:7 : 7 And the house, while it was being built, was built with stone prepared before it was brought there; so that there was neither hammer nor axe nor any tool of iron heard in the house while it was being built.
  • Luke 14:28-30 : 28 For which of you, intending to build a tower, does not sit down first and count the cost, whether he has enough to finish it? 29 Lest perhaps, after he has laid the foundation, and is not able to finish it, all who see it begin to mock him, 30 Saying, This man began to build and was not able to finish.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Prov 24:28-30
    3 verses
    77%

    28 Do not be a witness against your neighbor without cause, and do not deceive with your lips.

    29 Do not say, I will do to him as he has done to me; I will pay the man back for his work.

    30 I went by the field of the slothful, and by the vineyard of the man void of understanding.

  • Jer 29:5
    74%

    5 Build houses and live in them; plant gardens and eat their fruit.

  • Prov 24:3
    73%

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

  • Jer 22:13-14
    2 verses
    73%

    13 Woe to him who builds his house by unrighteousness, and his upper rooms by injustice; who uses his neighbor’s service without wages, and gives him nothing for his work;

    14 Who says, I will build myself a wide house and large rooms, and cuts him out windows; and it is paneled with cedar, and painted with vermilion.

  • Matt 24:17-18
    2 verses
    73%

    17 Let him who is on the housetop not go down to take anything out of his house.

    18 And let him who is in the field not turn back to take his clothes.

  • Deut 28:30
    73%

    30 You shall marry a wife, and another man shall lie with her: you shall build a house, and you shall not dwell therein: you shall plant a vineyard, and shall not gather the grapes thereof.

  • Job 27:18
    72%

    18 He builds his house like a moth, and like a booth that a keeper makes.

  • Ps 128:2
    72%

    2 For you shall eat the labor of your hands; happy shall you be, and it shall be well with you.

  • Prov 25:8-9
    2 verses
    72%

    8 Do not go forth hastily to contend, lest you know not what to do in the end thereof, when your neighbor has put you to shame.

    9 Debate your cause with your neighbor himself; and do not disclose a secret to another;

  • Prov 27:23
    72%

    23 Be diligent to know the state of your flocks, and look well to your herds.

  • Ps 127:1
    71%

    1 Unless the LORD builds the house, those who build it labor in vain; unless the LORD keeps the city, the watchman stays awake in vain.

  • Prov 14:1
    71%

    1 Every wise woman builds her house, but the foolish tears it down with her hands.

  • Prov 5:10
    71%

    10 Lest strangers be filled with your wealth, and your labors be in the house of a stranger;

  • Prov 24:26
    71%

    26 Every man shall kiss his lips who gives a right answer.

  • Prov 25:17
    71%

    17 Withdraw your foot from your neighbor's house, lest he become weary of you and so hate you.

  • Prov 24:15
    70%

    15 Do not lie in wait, O wicked man, against the dwelling of the righteous; do not spoil his resting place.

  • Prov 22:28-29
    2 verses
    70%

    28 Do not remove the ancient landmark which your fathers have set.

    29 Do you see a man diligent in his business? He shall stand before kings; he shall not stand before obscure men.

  • Job 24:6
    70%

    6 They reap each one his grain in the field and gather the vintage of the wicked.

  • Matt 24:44
    70%

    44 Therefore you also be ready, for in an hour you do not expect the Son of Man will come.

  • Mark 13:15-16
    2 verses
    70%

    15 And let him who is on the housetop not go down into the house, nor enter in, to take anything out of his house:

    16 And let him who is in the field not turn back again to take up his garment.

  • Eccl 10:18
    70%

    18 By much slothfulness the building decays; and through idleness of the hands the house leaks.

  • Prov 25:24
    70%

    24 It is better to dwell in the corner of a housetop than in a wide house with a contentious woman.

  • Deut 8:12
    70%

    12 Lest when you have eaten and are full, and have built beautiful houses, and dwelt therein;

  • Prov 31:27
    70%

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

  • Prov 4:25-26
    2 verses
    69%

    25 Let your eyes look straight ahead, and let your eyelids look straight before you.

    26 Ponder the path of your feet, and let all your ways be established.

  • Deut 22:8
    69%

    8 When you build a new house, then you shall make a parapet for your roof, that you bring not blood upon your house if any man falls from it.

  • Luke 17:31
    69%

    31 In that day, he who is on the housetop, with his goods in the house, let him not come down to take them away: and he who is in the field, let him likewise not turn back.

  • Prov 3:29
    69%

    29 Do not devise evil against your neighbor, seeing he dwells securely by you.

  • 2 Chr 24:13
    69%

    13 So the workmen worked, and the work was completed by them, and they set the house of God in its state, and strengthened it.

  • Prov 5:8
    69%

    8 Remove your way far from her, and do not come near the door of her house:

  • 2 Kgs 22:6
    69%

    6 To carpenters, and builders, and masons, and to buy timber and cut stone to repair the house.

  • Ps 104:23
    69%

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

  • Num 32:24
    69%

    24 Build cities for your little ones and folds for your sheep; and do what you have said.

  • Job 22:21
    69%

    21 Acquaint yourself with Him now and be at peace; thereby good will come to you.

  • Prov 14:23
    69%

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

  • Prov 21:9
    69%

    9 It is better to live in a corner of the housetop than in a spacious house with a contentious woman.

  • 2 Chr 2:9
    69%

    9 To prepare me timber in abundance, for the house which I am about to build shall be exceedingly great.

  • Hag 1:8
    69%

    8 Go up to the mountains, bring wood, and build the house; and I will take pleasure in it and be glorified, says the LORD.

  • Deut 24:11
    69%

    11 You shall stand outside, and the man to whom you lend shall bring out the pledge to you.

  • Prov 24:33
    69%

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

  • Matt 7:24
    69%

    24 Therefore whoever hears these sayings of mine and does them, I will liken him to a wise man who built his house on the rock.

  • Prov 6:8
    69%

    8 Provides her food in the summer, and gathers her food in the harvest.

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