For every house is built by someone; but he who built all things is God.
Parallel translations
- KJV For every house is builded by some man; but he that built all things is God.
- BSB And every house is built by someone, but God is the builder of everything.
- NKJV For every house is built by someone, but He who built all things is God.
- NASB For every house is built by someone, but the builder of all things is God.
- NLT For every house has a builder, but the one who built everything is God.
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Cross-references · 4
- Heb 1:2has at the end of these days spoken to us by his Son, whom he appointed heir of all things, through whom also he made the worlds.
- Heb 3:3For he has been counted worthy of more glory than Moses, because he who built the house has more honor than the house.
- Esth 2:10Esther had not made known her people nor her relatives, because Mordecai had instructed her that she should not make it known.
- Esth 3:9If it pleases the king, let it be written that they be destroyed; and I will pay ten thousand talents of silver into the hands of those who are in charge of the king’s business, to bring it into the king’s treasuries.”
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