house dedication
What does the Bible say about house dedication? These are the passages readers found most helpful — tap any citation to read it in context.
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29Therefore, begin, and bless the house of your servant, so that it may be forever before you. For you, O Lord God, have spoken. And so, let the house of your servant be blessed with your blessing forever.”
3By wisdom shall a house be built, and by prudence shall it be strengthened. 4By doctrine, the storerooms shall be filled with every substance that is precious and most beautiful.
9For you, O Lord, are my hope. You have set the Most High as your refuge. 10Disaster will not draw near to you, and the scourge will not approach your tabernacle. 11For he has given his Angels charge over you, so as to preserve you in all your ways.
1A Canticle in steps: of Solomon. Unless the Lord has built the house, those who build it have labored in vain. Unless the Lord has guarded the city, he who guards it watches in vain.
1A Canticle in steps: of Solomon. Unless the Lord has built the house, those who build it have labored in vain. Unless the Lord has guarded the city, he who guards it watches in vain. 2It is in vain that you rise before daylight, that you rise up after you have sat down, you who chew the bread of sorrow. Whereas, to his beloved, he will give sleep. 3Behold, the inheritance of the Lord is sons, the reward is the fruit of the womb. 4Like arrows in the hand of the powerful, so are the sons of those who have been cast out. 5Blessed is the man who has filled his desire from these things. He will not be confounded when he speaks to his enemies at the gate.
4For every house is built by someone, but God is the One who has created all things.
17Every excellent gift and every perfect gift is from above, descending from the Father of lights, with whom there is no change, nor any shadow of alteration.
5Build houses and live in them. And plant gardens, and eat from their fruit.
15But if it seems evil to you that you would serve the Lord, a choice is given to you. Choose today what pleases you, and whom you ought to serve above all else, either the gods that your fathers served in Mesopotamia, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land you live: but as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.”
24Therefore, everyone who hears these words of mine and does them shall be compared to a wise man, who built his house upon the rock. 25And the rains descended, and the floods rose up, and the winds blew, and rushed upon that house, but it did not fall, for it was founded on the rock. 26And everyone who hears these words of mine and does not do them shall be like a foolish man, who built his house upon the sand. 27And the rains descended, and the floods rose up, and the winds blew, and rushed upon that house, and it did fall, and great was its ruin.”
1A Canticle in steps. I have lifted up my eyes to the mountains; from thence help will come to me. 2My help is from the Lord, who made heaven and earth. 3May he not allow your foot to be moved, and may he not slumber, who guards you. 4Behold, he who guards Israel will neither sleep, nor slumber. 5The Lord is your keeper, the Lord is your protection, above your right hand. 6The sun will not burn you by day, nor the moon by night.
19Now, therefore, you are no longer visitors and new arrivals. Instead, you are citizens among the saints in the household of God, 20having been built upon the foundation of the Apostles and of the Prophets, with Jesus Christ himself as the preeminent cornerstone. 21In him, all that has been built is framed together, rising up into a holy temple in the Lord. 22In him, you also have been built together into a habitation of God in the Spirit.