- Deuteronomy 6:7 ESV
You shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise. - 2 Samuel 7:10 ESV
And I will appoint a place for my people Israel and will plant them, so that they may dwell in their own place and be disturbed no more. And violent men shall afflict them no more, as formerly - Psalm 90:1 ESV
Lord, you have been our dwelling place[a]
in all generations. - Psalm 127:1-2 ESV
Unless the Lord builds the house,
those who build it labor in vain.
Unless the Lord watches over the city,
the watchman stays awake in vain.
2 It is in vain that you rise up early
and go late to rest,
eating the bread of anxious toil;
for he gives to his beloved sleep. - Proverbs 3:23 ESV
The Lord‘s curse is on the house of the wicked,
but he blesses the dwelling of the righteous. - Proverbs 12:7 ESV
The wicked are overthrown and are no more,
but the house of the righteous will stand. - Proverbs 14:1 ESV
The wisest of women builds her house,
but folly with her own hands tears it down. - Proverbs 14:11 ESV
The house of the wicked will be destroyed,
but the tent of the upright will flourish. - Proverbs 24:3-4 ESV
By wisdom a house is built,
and by understanding it is established;
4 by knowledge the rooms are filled
with all precious and pleasant riches. - Isaiah 32:18 ESV
My people will abide in a peaceful habitation,
in secure dwellings, and in quiet resting places. - Zephaniah 3:20 ESV
At that time I will bring you in,
at the time when I gather you together;
for I will make you renowned and praised
among all the peoples of the earth,
when I restore your fortunes
before your eyes,” says the Lord. - John 14:2 ESV
In my Father’s house are many rooms. If it were not so, would I have told you that I go to prepare a place for you? - John 14:23 ESV
Jesus answered him, “If anyone loves me, he will keep my word, and my Father will love him, and we will come to him and make our home with him. - 1 Corinthians 3:16 ESV
Do you not know that you are God’s temple and that God’s Spirit dwells in you? - 2 Corinthians 5:1 ESV
For we know that if the tent that is our earthly home is destroyed, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens.
Heather C. King - Room to Breathe 