Proverbs 24:27

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

Establish your work outside and get your fields ready; afterward build your house.

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Referenced Verses

  • 1 Kgs 5:17-18 : 17 By royal order they supplied large valuable stones in order to build the temple’s foundation with chiseled stone. 18 Solomon’s and Hiram’s construction workers, along with men from Byblos, did the chiseling and prepared the wood and stones for the building of the temple.
  • 1 Kgs 6:7 : 7 As the temple was being built, only stones shaped at the quarry were used; the sound of hammers, pickaxes, or any other iron tool was not heard at the temple while it was being built.
  • Luke 14:28-30 : 28 For which of you, wanting to build a tower, doesn’t sit down first and compute the cost to see if he has enough money to complete it? 29 Otherwise, when he has laid a foundation and is not able to finish the tower, all who see it will begin to make fun of him. 30 They will say,‘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%

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

    29Do not say,“I will do to him just as he has done to me; I will pay him back according to what he has done.”

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

  • Jer 29:5
    74%

    5‘Build houses and settle down. Plant gardens and eat what they produce.

  • Prov 24:3
    73%

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

  • Jer 22:13-14
    2 verses
    73%

    13Judgment on Jehoiakim“‘Sure to be judged is the king who builds his palace using injustice and treats people unfairly while adding its upper rooms. He makes his countrymen work for him for nothing. He does not pay them for their labor.

    14He says,“I will build myself a large palace with spacious upper rooms.” He cuts windows in its walls, panels it with cedar, and paints its rooms red.

  • Matt 24:17-18
    2 verses
    73%

    17The one on the roof must not come down to take anything out of his house,

    18and the one in the field must not turn back to get his cloak.

  • Deut 28:30
    73%

    30You will be engaged to a woman and another man will rape her. You will build a house but not live in it. You will plant a vineyard but not even begin to use it.

  • Job 27:18
    72%

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

  • Ps 128:2
    72%

    2You will eat what you worked so hard to grow. You will be blessed and secure.

  • Prov 25:8-9
    2 verses
    72%

    8Do not go out hastily to litigation, or what will you do afterward when your neighbor puts you to shame?

    9When you argue a case with your neighbor, do not reveal the secret of another person,

  • Prov 27:23
    72%

    23Pay careful attention to the condition of your flocks, set your mind on your herds,

  • Ps 127:1
    71%

    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.

  • Prov 14:1
    71%

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

  • Prov 5:10
    71%

    10lest strangers devour your strength, and your labor benefit another man’s house.

  • Prov 24:26
    71%

    26Like a kiss on the lips is the one who gives an honest answer.

  • Prov 25:17
    71%

    17Don’t set foot too frequently in your neighbor’s house, lest he become weary of you and hate you.

  • Prov 24:15
    70%

    15Do not lie in wait like the wicked against the place where the righteous live; do not assault his home.

  • Prov 22:28-29
    2 verses
    70%

    28Do not move an ancient boundary stone which was put in place by your ancestors.

    29You have seen a person skilled in his work– he will take his position before kings; he will not take his position before obscure people.

  • Job 24:6
    70%

    6They reap fodder in the field, and glean in the vineyard of the wicked.

  • Matt 24:44
    70%

    44Therefore 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%

    15The one on the roof must not come down or go inside to take anything out of his house.

    16The one in the field must not turn back to get his cloak.

  • Eccl 10:18
    70%

    18Because of laziness the roof caves in, and because of idle hands the house leaks.

  • Prov 25:24
    70%

    24It is better to live on a corner of the housetop than in a house in company with a quarrelsome wife.

  • Deut 8:12
    70%

    12When you eat your fill, when you build and occupy good houses,

  • Prov 31:27
    70%

    27Watching over the ways of her household, she would not eat the bread of idleness.

  • Prov 4:25-26
    2 verses
    69%

    25Let your eyes look directly in front of you and let your gaze look straight before you.

    26Make the path for your feet level, so that all your ways may be established.

  • Deut 22:8
    69%

    8If you build a new house, you must construct a guard rail around your roof to avoid being culpable in the event someone should fall from it.

  • Luke 17:31
    69%

    31On that day, anyone who is on the roof, with his goods in the house, must not come down to take them away, and likewise the person in the field must not turn back.

  • Prov 3:29
    69%

    29Do not plot evil against your neighbor when he dwells by you unsuspectingly.

  • 2 Chr 24:13
    69%

    13They worked hard and made the repairs. They followed the measurements specified for God’s temple and restored it.

  • Prov 5:8
    69%

    8Keep yourself far from her, and do not go near the door of her house,

  • 2 Kgs 22:6
    69%

    6including craftsmen, builders, and masons, and should buy wood and chiseled stone for the repair work.

  • Ps 104:23
    69%

    23Men then go out to do their work, and labor away until evening.

  • Num 32:24
    69%

    24So build cities for your descendants and pens for your sheep, but do what you have said you would do.”

  • Job 22:21
    69%

    21“Reconcile yourself with God, and be at peace with him; in this way your prosperity will be good.

  • Prov 14:23
    69%

    23In all hard work there is profit, but merely talking about it only brings poverty.

  • Prov 21:9
    69%

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

  • 2 Chr 2:9
    69%

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

  • Hag 1:8
    69%

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

  • Deut 24:11
    69%

    11You must stand outside and the person to whom you are making the loan will bring out to you what he is offering as security.

  • Prov 24:33
    69%

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

  • Matt 7:24
    69%

    24Hearing and Doing“Everyone who hears these words of mine and does them is like a wise man who built his house on rock.

  • Prov 6:8
    69%

    8yet it would prepare its food in the summer; it gathered at the harvest what it will eat.