Hebrews 3:4

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

For every house is built by someone, but the builder of all things is God.

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Referenced Verses

  • Esth 2:10 : 10 Now Esther had not disclosed her people or her lineage, for Mordecai had instructed her not to do so.
  • Heb 1:2 : 2 in these last days he has spoken to us in a son, whom he appointed heir of all things, and through whom he created the world.
  • Heb 3:3 : 3 For he has come to deserve greater glory than Moses, just as the builder of a house deserves greater honor than the house itself!
  • Esth 3:9 : 9 If the king is so inclined, let an edict be issued to destroy them. I will pay 10,000 talents of silver to be conveyed to the king’s treasuries for the officials who carry out this business.”

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Heb 3:2-3
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    82%

    2who is faithful to the one who appointed him, as Moses was also in God’s house.

    3For he has come to deserve greater glory than Moses, just as the builder of a house deserves greater honor than the house itself!

  • 1 Cor 3:9-12
    4 verses
    76%

    9We are coworkers belonging to God. You are God’s field, God’s building.

    10According to the grace of God given to me, like a skilled master-builder I laid a foundation, but someone else builds on it. And each one must be careful how he builds.

    11For no one can lay any foundation other than what is being laid, which is Jesus Christ.

    12If anyone builds on the foundation with gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, or straw,

  • 2 Chr 2:5-6
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    75%

    5I will build a great temple, for our God is greater than all gods.

    6Of course, who can really build a temple for him, since the sky and the highest heavens cannot contain him? Who am I that I should build him a temple! It will really be only a place to offer sacrifices before him.

  • Acts 7:47-50
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    74%

    47But Solomon built a house for him.

    48Yet the Most High does not live in houses made by human hands, as the prophet says,

    49‘Heaven is my throne, and earth is the footstool for my feet. What kind of house will you build for me, says the Lord, or what is my resting place?

    50Did my hand not make all these things?’

  • Acts 17:24-25
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    24The God who made the world and everything in it, who is Lord of heaven and earth, does not live in temples made by human hands,

    25nor is he served by human hands, as if he needed anything, because he himself gives life and breath and everything to everyone.

  • 2 Cor 5:1
    73%

    1Living by Faith, Not by Sight For we know that if our earthly house, the tent we live in, is dismantled, we have a building from God, a house not built by human hands, that is eternal in the heavens.

  • Heb 3:5-6
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    73%

    5Now Moses was faithful in all God’s house as a servant, to testify to the things that would be spoken.

    6But Christ is faithful as a son over God’s house. We are of his house, if in fact we hold firmly to our confidence and the hope we take pride in.

  • Prov 24:3
    73%

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

  • 1 Chr 29:16
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    16O LORD our God, all this wealth, which we have collected to build a temple for you to honor your holy name, comes from you; it all belongs to you.

  • Eph 2:20-22
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    73%

    20because you have been built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, with Christ Jesus himself as the cornerstone.

    21In him the whole building, being joined together, grows into a holy temple in the Lord,

    22in whom you also are being built together into a dwelling place of God in the Spirit.

  • Heb 11:10
    71%

    10For he was looking forward to the city with firm foundations, whose architect and builder is God.

  • 2 Chr 6:18
    70%

    18“God does not really live with humankind on the earth! Look, if the sky and the highest heaven cannot contain you, how much less this temple I have built!

  • 1 Cor 3:16-17
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    16Do you not know that you are God’s temple and that God’s Spirit lives in you?

    17If someone destroys God’s temple, God will destroy him. For God’s temple is holy, which is what you are.

  • Col 1:16-17
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    70%

    16for all things in heaven and on earth were created in him– all things, whether visible or invisible, whether thrones or dominions, whether principalities or powers– all things were created through him and for him.

    17He himself is before all things and all things are held together in him.

  • Heb 8:2
    70%

    2a minister in the sanctuary and the true tabernacle that the Lord, not man, set up.

  • Heb 11:3
    69%

    3By faith we understand that the worlds were set in order at God’s command, so that the visible has its origin in the invisible.

  • Ps 127:1
    69%

    1A song of ascents, by Solomon. If the LORD does not build a house, then those who build it work in vain. If the LORD does not guard a city, then the watchman stands guard in vain.

  • 1 Chr 22:2
    69%

    2David Orders a Temple to Be Built David ordered the resident foreigners in the land of Israel to be called together. He appointed some of them to be stonecutters to chisel stones for the building of God’s temple.

  • Heb 1:10
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    10And,“You founded the earth in the beginning, Lord, and the heavens are the works of your hands.

  • 1 Kgs 8:27
    69%

    27“God does not really live on the earth! Look, if the sky and the highest heaven cannot contain you, how much less this temple I have built!

  • 1 Cor 8:6
    69%

    6yet for us there is one God, the Father, from whom are all things and for whom we live, and one Lord, Jesus Christ, through whom are all things and through whom we live.

  • Heb 10:21
    68%

    21and since we have a great priest over the house of God,

  • Job 27:18
    68%

    18The house he builds is as fragile as a moth’s cocoon, like a hut that a watchman has made.

  • John 1:3
    68%

    3All things were created by him, and apart from him not one thing was created that has been created.

  • 1 Chr 17:12
    68%

    12He will build me a house, and I will make his dynasty permanent.

  • Eph 4:6
    68%

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

  • Prov 14:1
    68%

    1Every wise woman has built her household, but a foolish woman tears it down with her own hands.

  • 1 Cor 3:14
    68%

    14If what someone has built survives, he will receive a reward.

  • Ezra 1:3
    68%

    3Anyone of his people among you(may his God be with him!) may go up to Jerusalem, which is in Judah, and may build the temple of the LORD God of Israel– he is the God who is in Jerusalem.

  • 2 Chr 6:2
    68%

    2O LORD, I have built a lofty temple for you, a place where you can live permanently.”

  • Amos 9:6
    68%

    6He builds the upper rooms of his palace in heaven and sets its foundation supports on the earth. He summons the water of the sea and pours it out on the earth’s surface. The LORD is his name.

  • Hag 1:8
    68%

    8Go up to the hill country and bring back timber to build the temple. Then I will be pleased and honored,’ says the LORD.

  • 1 Kgs 8:17
    67%

    17Now my father David had a strong desire to build a temple to honor the LORD God of Israel.

  • 1 Kgs 8:13
    67%

    13O LORD, truly I have built a lofty temple for you, a place where you can live permanently.”

  • 2 Chr 6:7
    67%

    7Now my father David had a strong desire to build a temple to honor the LORD God of Israel.

  • 2 Chr 2:9
    67%

    9to supply me with large quantities of timber, for I am building a great, magnificent temple.