Proverbs 24:3
By wisdom a house is built and by understanding it is established;
BSB
ASV
Through wisdom is a house builded; And by understanding it is established;
KJV
Through wisdom is an house builded; and by understanding it is established:
Through wisdom is a house builded,.... A family is built up, furnished and supplied with the necessaries and conveniences of life, and brought into flourishing and prosperous circumstances, by wise and prudent management, by diligence and industry, through the blessing of God upon them, without taking such methods as evil men do. The house of God, the church of the living God, is built by Wisdom, that is, by Christ; on a good foundation, a rock, upon himself, against which the gates of hell can never prevail; see Pro 9:
Men may by unrighteous practices build their houses, but they cannot establish them, for the foundation is rotten ( Hab. ii. 9, 10 ); whereas what is honestly got will wear like steel and be an inheritance to children's children.
Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.
The walk8
Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.
Through
1 Corinthians 3:9For we are God’s fellow workers; you are God’s field, God’s building.
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built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, with Christ Jesus Himself as the cornerstone.
Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
you also, like living stones, are being built into a spiritual house to be a holy priesthood, offering spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.
Through
Colossians 2:7rooted and built up in Him, established in the faith as you were taught, and overflowing with thankfulness.
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so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith. Then you, being rooted and grounded in love,
He is like a tree planted by the waters that sends out its roots toward the stream. It does not fear when the heat comes, and its leaves are always green. It does not…
Remain in Me, and I will remain in you. Just as no branch can bear fruit by itself unless it remains in the vine, neither can you bear fruit unless you remain in Me.
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Proverbs 14:1Every wise woman builds her house, but a foolish one tears it down with her own hands.
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A wife of noble character, who can find? She is far more precious than rubies.
By wisdom a house is built and by understanding it is established;
Better to live on a corner of the roof than to share a house with a quarrelsome wife.