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What does the Bible say about home?

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The Bible teaches that a true home is built by God’s wisdom, blessed by His presence, and ordered around faithful trust in Him. Proverbs 24:3-4 and Proverbs 14:1 show that wisdom and godliness establish a household, while Psalm 127:1 warns that human labor is empty unless the Lord builds. Joshua 24:15 calls families to serve the Lord together, and Isaiah 32:18 pictures the peace and security God gives His people. Even earthly homes are temporary, for 2 Corinthians 5:1-10 directs believers to their lasting dwelling with the Lord. Therefore, Christians may cherish their homes as gifts of grace while finding their deepest refuge in God Himself.

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  • Proverbs 24:3-4

    [3] Through wisdom a house is built; By understanding it is established; [4] By knowledge the rooms are filled With all rare and beautiful treasure.

  • Isaiah 32:18

    My people shall abide in a peaceable habitation, and in safe dwellings, and in quiet resting-places.

  • Joshua 24:15

    If it seem evil to you to serve Yahweh, choose you this day whom you will serve; whether the gods which your fathers served that were beyond the River, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land you dwell: but as for me and my house, we will serve Yahweh.

  • Psalms 91:1-2

    [1] He who dwells in the secret place of the Most High Will rest in the shadow of the Almighty. [2] I will say of Yahweh, "He is my refuge and my fortress; My God, in whom I trust."

  • Proverbs 3:33

    Yahweh's curse is in the house of the wicked, But he blesses the habitation of the righteous.

  • 2 Corinthians 5:1-10

    [1] For we know that if the earthly house of our tent is dissolved, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal, in the heavens. [2] For most assuredly in this we groan, longing to be clothed with our habitation which is from heaven; [3] if so be that being clothed we will not be found naked. [4] For indeed we who are in this tent do groan, being burdened; not that we desire to be unclothed, but that we desire to be clothed, that what is mortal may be swallowed up by life. [5] Now he who made us for this very thing is God, who also gave to us the down payment of the Spirit. [6] Being therefore always of good courage, and knowing that, while we are at home in the body, we are absent from the Lord; [7] for we walk by faith, not by sight. [8] We are of good courage, I say, and are willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be at home with the Lord. [9] Therefore also we make it our aim, whether at home or absent, to be well pleasing to him. [10] For we must all be revealed before the judgment seat of Christ; that each one may receive the things in the body, according to what he has done, whether good or bad.

  • 2 Samuel 7:29

    now therefore let it please you to bless the house of your servant, that it may continue forever before you; for you, Lord Yahweh, have spoken it: and with your blessing let the house of your servant be blessed forever.

  • Proverbs 14:1

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

  • Psalms 127:1

    > Unless Yahweh builds the house, They labor in vain who build it. Unless Yahweh watches over the city, The watchman guards it in vain.

  • 1 Samuel 25:6

    and thus shall you tell him who lives [in prosperity], Peace be to you, and peace be to your house, and peace be to all that you have.

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