Proverbs 24:27

World English Bible (2000)

Prepare your work outside, and get your fields ready. Afterwards, build your house.

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Referenced Verses

  • 1 Kgs 5:17-18 : 17 The king commanded, and they cut out great stones, costly stones, to lay the foundation of the house with worked stone. 18 Solomon's builders and Hiram's builders and the Gebalites did fashion them, and prepared the timber and the stones to build the house.
  • 1 Kgs 6:7 : 7 The house, when it was in building, was built of stone prepared at the quarry; and there was neither hammer nor axe nor any tool of iron heard in the house, while it was in building.
  • Luke 14:28-30 : 28 For which of you, desiring to build a tower, doesn't first sit down and count the cost, to see if he has enough to complete it? 29 Or perhaps, when he has laid a foundation, and is not able to finish, everyone who sees begins to mock him, 30 saying, 'This man began to build, and wasn't able to finish.'

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Prov 24:28-30
    3 verses
    77%

    28Don't be a witness against your neighbor without cause. Don't deceive with your lips.

    29Don't say, "I will do to him as he has done to me; I will render to the man according to his work."

    30I went by the field of the sluggard, by the vineyard of the man void of understanding;

  • Jer 29:5
    74%

    5Build houses, and dwell in them; and plant gardens, and eat the fruit of them.

  • Prov 24:3
    73%

    3Through wisdom a house is built; by understanding it is established;

  • Jer 22:13-14
    2 verses
    73%

    13Woe to him who builds his house by unrighteousness, and his rooms by injustice; who uses his neighbor's service without wages, and doesn't give him his hire;

    14who says, I will build me a wide house and spacious rooms, and cuts him out windows; and it is ceiling with cedar, and painted with vermilion.

  • Matt 24:17-18
    2 verses
    73%

    17Let him who is on the housetop not go down to take out things that are in his house.

    18Let him who is in the field not return back to get his clothes.

  • Deut 28:30
    73%

    30You shall betroth 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 use its fruit.

  • Job 27:18
    72%

    18He builds his house as the moth, as a booth which the watchman makes.

  • Ps 128:2
    72%

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

  • Prov 25:8-9
    2 verses
    72%

    8Don't be hasty in bringing charges to court. What will you do in the end when your neighbor shames you?

    9Debate your case with your neighbor, and don't betray the confidence of another;

  • Prov 27:23
    72%

    23Know well the state of your flocks, and pay attention to your herds:

  • Ps 127:1
    71%

    1Unless Yahweh builds the house, they labor in vain who build it. Unless Yahweh watches over the city, the watchman guards it in vain.

  • Prov 14:1
    71%

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

  • Prov 5:10
    71%

    10lest strangers feast on your wealth, and your labors enrich another man's house.

  • Prov 24:26
    71%

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

  • Prov 25:17
    71%

    17Let your foot be seldom in your neighbor's house, lest he be weary of you, and hate you.

  • Prov 24:15
    70%

    15Don't lay in wait, wicked man, against the habitation of the righteous. Don't destroy his resting place:

  • Prov 22:28-29
    2 verses
    70%

    28Don't move the ancient boundary stone, which your fathers have set up.

    29Do you see a man skilled in his work? He will serve kings. He won't serve obscure men.

  • Job 24:6
    70%

    6They cut their provender in the field. They glean the vineyard of the wicked.

  • Matt 24:44
    70%

    44Therefore also be ready, for in an hour that you don't expect, the Son of Man will come.

  • Mark 13:15-16
    2 verses
    70%

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

    16Let him who is in the field not return back to take his cloak.

  • Eccl 10:18
    70%

    18By slothfulness the roof sinks in; and through idleness of the hands the house leaks.

  • Prov 25:24
    70%

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

  • Deut 8:12
    70%

    12lest, when you have eaten and are full, and have built goodly houses, and lived therein;

  • Prov 31:27
    70%

    27She looks well to the ways of her household, and doesn't eat the bread of idleness.

  • Prov 4:25-26
    2 verses
    69%

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

    26Make the path of your feet level. Let all of your ways be established.

  • Deut 22:8
    69%

    8When you build a new house, then you shall make a battlement for your roof, that you don't bring blood on your house, if any man fall from there.

  • Luke 17:31
    69%

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

  • Prov 3:29
    69%

    29Don't devise evil against your neighbor, since he dwells securely by you.

  • 2 Chr 24:13
    69%

    13So the workmen worked, and the work of repairing went forward in their hands, and they set up the house of God in its state, and strengthened it.

  • Prov 5:8
    69%

    8Remove your way far from her. Don't come near the door of her house,

  • 2 Kgs 22:6
    69%

    6to the carpenters, and to the builders, and to the masons, and for buying timber and cut stone to repair the house.

  • Ps 104:23
    69%

    23Man goes forth to his work, to his labor until the evening.

  • Num 32:24
    69%

    24Build cities for your little ones, and folds for your sheep; and do that which has proceeded out of your mouth."

  • Job 22:21
    69%

    21"Acquaint yourself with him, now, and be at peace. Thereby good shall come to you.

  • Prov 14:23
    69%

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

  • Prov 21:9
    69%

    9It is better to dwell in the corner of the housetop, than to share a house with a contentious woman.

  • 2 Chr 2:9
    69%

    9even to prepare me timber in abundance; for the house which I am about to build shall be great and wonderful.

  • Hag 1:8
    69%

    8Go up to the mountain, bring wood, and build the house. I will take pleasure in it, and I will be glorified," says Yahweh.

  • Deut 24:11
    69%

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

  • Prov 24:33
    69%

    33a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep;

  • Matt 7:24
    69%

    24"Everyone therefore who hears these words of mine, and does them, I will liken him to a wise man, who built his house on a rock.

  • Prov 6:8
    69%

    8provides her bread in the summer, and gathers her food in the harvest.