What Does the Bible Say About Temporary Houses?

John 14:2 ESV / 7 helpful votes

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?

2 Corinthians 5:1 ESV / 6 helpful votes

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.

2 Corinthians 4:17-18 ESV / 5 helpful votes

For this light momentary affliction is preparing for us an eternal weight of glory beyond all comparison, as we look not to the things that are seen but to the things that are unseen. For the things that are seen are transient, but the things that are unseen are eternal.

Hebrews 3:4 ESV / 4 helpful votes

(For every house is built by someone, but the builder of all things is God.)

Philippians 4:13 ESV / 4 helpful votes

I can do all things through him who strengthens me.

Isaiah 28:16 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Therefore thus says the Lord God, “Behold, I am the one who has laid as a foundation in Zion, a stone, a tested stone, a precious cornerstone, of a sure foundation: ‘Whoever believes will not be in haste.’

Revelation 21:4 ESV / 2 helpful votes

He will wipe away every tear from their eyes, and death shall be no more, neither shall there be mourning, nor crying, nor pain anymore, for the former things have passed away.”

Revelation 21:3 ESV / 2 helpful votes

And I heard a loud voice from the throne saying, “Behold, the dwelling place of God is with man. He will dwell with them, and they will be his people, and God himself will be with them as their God.

2 Peter 3:11 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Since all these things are thus to be dissolved, what sort of people ought you to be in lives of holiness and godliness,

Hebrews 12:2 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Looking to Jesus, the founder and perfecter of our faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is seated at the right hand of the throne of God.

Hebrews 11:2 ESV / 2 helpful votes

For by it the people of old received their commendation.

Hebrews 9:27 ESV / 2 helpful votes

And just as it is appointed for man to die once, and after that comes judgment,

Philippians 3:20 ESV / 2 helpful votes

But our citizenship is in heaven, and from it we await a Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ,

Ephesians 2:2 ESV / 2 helpful votes

In which you once walked, following the course of this world, following the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that is now at work in the sons of disobedience—

2 Corinthians 5:4 ESV / 2 helpful votes

For while we are still in this tent, we groan, being burdened—not that we would be unclothed, but that we would be further clothed, so that what is mortal may be swallowed up by life.

2 Corinthians 5:2 ESV / 2 helpful votes

For in this tent we groan, longing to put on our heavenly dwelling,

2 Corinthians 4:17 ESV / 2 helpful votes

For this light momentary affliction is preparing for us an eternal weight of glory beyond all comparison,

1 Corinthians 6:19 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit within you, whom you have from God? You are not your own,

Romans 6:23 ESV / 2 helpful votes

For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Romans 6:3 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Do you not know that all of us who have been baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death?

Romans 5:8 ESV / 2 helpful votes

But God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.

Romans 5:2 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Through him we have also obtained access by faith into this grace in which we stand, and we rejoice in hope of the glory of God.

Acts 17:2 ESV / 2 helpful votes

And Paul went in, as was his custom, and on three Sabbath days he reasoned with them from the Scriptures,

Acts 4:12 ESV / 2 helpful votes

And there is salvation in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given among men by which we must be saved.”

Acts 4:2 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Greatly annoyed because they were teaching the people and proclaiming in Jesus the resurrection from the dead.

Acts 2:38 ESV / 2 helpful votes

And Peter said to them, “Repent and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins, and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.

Acts 2:3 ESV / 2 helpful votes

And divided tongues as of fire appeared to them and rested on each one of them.

John 14:6 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Jesus said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.

John 3:16 ESV / 2 helpful votes

“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.

John 3:16-17 ESV / 2 helpful votes

“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him.

Matthew 25:2 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Five of them were foolish, and five were wise.

Matthew 22:2 ESV / 2 helpful votes

“The kingdom of heaven may be compared to a king who gave a wedding feast for his son,

Matthew 8:20 ESV / 2 helpful votes

And Jesus said to him, “Foxes have holes, and birds of the air have nests, but the Son of Man has nowhere to lay his head.”

Matthew 7:24-27 ESV / 2 helpful votes

“Everyone then who hears these words of mine and does them will be like a wise man who built his house on the rock. And the rain fell, and the floods came, and the winds blew and beat on that house, but it did not fall, because it had been founded on the rock. And everyone who hears these words of mine and does not do them will be like a foolish man who built his house on the sand. And the rain fell, and the floods came, and the winds blew and beat against that house, and it fell, and great was the fall of it.”

Matthew 5:2 ESV / 2 helpful votes

And he opened his mouth and taught them, saying:

Genesis 3:19 ESV / 2 helpful votes

By the sweat of your face you shall eat bread, till you return to the ground, for out of it you were taken; for you are dust, and to dust you shall return.”

36 Bible Verses about Temporary Houses

John 14:2 ESV / 7 helpful votes

2 Corinthians 5:1 ESV / 6 helpful votes

2 Corinthians 4:17-18 ESV / 5 helpful votes

Hebrews 3:4 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Philippians 4:13 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Isaiah 28:16 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Revelation 21:4 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Revelation 21:3 ESV / 2 helpful votes

2 Peter 3:11 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Hebrews 12:2 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Hebrews 11:2 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Hebrews 9:27 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Philippians 3:20 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Ephesians 2:2 ESV / 2 helpful votes

2 Corinthians 5:4 ESV / 2 helpful votes

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1 Corinthians 6:19 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Romans 6:23 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Romans 6:3 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Romans 5:8 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Romans 5:2 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Acts 17:2 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Acts 4:12 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Acts 4:2 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Acts 2:38 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Acts 2:3 ESV / 2 helpful votes

John 14:6 ESV / 2 helpful votes

John 3:16 ESV / 2 helpful votes

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Matthew 25:2 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Matthew 22:2 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Matthew 8:20 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Matthew 7:24-27 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Matthew 5:2 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Genesis 3:19 ESV / 2 helpful votes

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36 Bible Verses about Temporary Houses

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John 14:2 ESV / 7 helpful votes

2 Corinthians 5:1 ESV / 6 helpful votes

2 Corinthians 4:17-18 ESV / 5 helpful votes

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Philippians 4:13 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Isaiah 28:16 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Revelation 21:4 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Revelation 21:3 ESV / 2 helpful votes

2 Peter 3:11 ESV / 2 helpful votes

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John 14:6 ESV / 2 helpful votes

John 3:16 ESV / 2 helpful votes

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Matthew 25:2 ESV / 2 helpful votes

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Matthew 8:20 ESV / 2 helpful votes

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Genesis 3:19 ESV / 2 helpful votes