Proverbs 9:1

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“Wisdom has built her house; she has carved out her seven pillars.”

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“Wisdom has built her house; she has carved out her seven pillars.”

Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)
KJVPD

“Wisdom hath builded her house, she hath hewn out her seven pillars:”

King James Version · Public Domain
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“Wisdom hath builded her house; She hath hewn out her seven pillars:”

American Standard Version · Public Domain
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“Wisdom hath builded her house, She hath hewn out her pillars--seven.”

Young's Literal Translation · Public Domain
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Cross references

Other passages that echo Proverbs 9:1 — 16 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  1. 1 Kings 7:2He built the House of the Forest of Lebanon a hundred cubits long, fifty cubits wide, and thirty cubits high, with four rows of cedar pillars supporting the cedar beams.
  2. 1 Kings 7:6Solomon made his colonnade fifty cubits long and thirty cubits wide, with a portico in front of it and a canopy with pillars in front of the portico.
  3. 1 Kings 7:21Thus he set up the pillars at the portico of the temple. The pillar to the south he named Jachin, and the pillar to the north he named Boaz.
  4. Proverbs 1:20Wisdom calls out in the street, she lifts her voice in the square;
  5. Proverbs 2:1My son, if you accept my words and hide my commandments within you,
  6. Proverbs 3:1My son, do not forget my teaching, but let your heart keep my commandments;
  7. Proverbs 8:1Does not wisdom call out, and understanding raise her voice?
  8. Isaiah 55:1“Come, all you who are thirsty, come to the waters; and you without money, come, buy, and eat! Come, buy wine and milk without money and without cost!
  9. Matthew 16:18And I tell you that you are Peter, and on this rock I will build My church, and the gates of Hades will not prevail against it.
  10. 1 Corinthians 3:9For we are God’s fellow workers; you are God’s field, God’s building.
  11. Galatians 2:9And recognizing the grace that I had been given, James, Cephas, and John—those reputed to be pillars—gave me and Barnabas the right hand of fellowship, so that we should go to the Gentiles, and they to the circumcised.
  12. Ephesians 2:20built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, with Christ Jesus Himself as the cornerstone.
  13. 1 Timothy 3:15in case I am delayed, so that you will know how each one must conduct himself in God’s household, which is the church of the living God, the pillar and foundation of the truth.
  14. Hebrews 3:3For Jesus has been counted worthy of greater glory than Moses, just as the builder of a house has greater honor than the house itself.
  15. 1 Peter 2:5you 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.
  16. Revelation 3:12The one who overcomes I will make a pillar in the temple of My God, and he will never again leave it. Upon him I will write the name of My God, and the name of the city of My God (the new Jerusalem that comes down out of heaven from My God), and My new name.

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