Bible verses about "home" | CAB

¹ Praise of a Song, by David. He that dwells in the help of the Highest, shall sojourn under the shelter of the God of heaven. ² He shall say to the Lord, You are my helper and my refuge; my God; I will trust in Him.

¹ A Song of Degrees. Except the Lord build the house, they that build labor in vain: except the Lord keep the city, the watchman watches in vain.

³ A house is built by wisdom, and is set up by understanding. ⁴ By discretion the chambers are filled with all precious and excellent wealth.

¹⁵ But if it seem not good to you to serve the Lord, choose for yourselves this day whom you will serve, whether the gods of your fathers that were on the other side of the river, or the gods of the Amorites, among whom you dwell upon their land. But as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord, for He is holy.

¹ For we know that if our earthly house, this tent, is destroyed, we have a building from God, a house not made by hand, eternal in the heavens. ² For also in this we groan, earnestly desiring to be clothed with our habitation which is from heaven, ³ if indeed, having been clothed, we shall not be found naked. ⁴ For we who are in this tent groan, being burdened, inasmuch as we do not desire to be stripped, but to put on clothing, that that which is mortal may be swallowed up by life. ⁵ Now He who has prepared us for this same thing is God, who also gave to us the down payment of the Spirit. ⁶ Therefore always being confident, and knowing that while we are in the body, we are away from home from the Lord ⁷ (for we walk by faith, not by sight), ⁸ but we are confident and prefer rather to be away from home from the body, and to be at home with the Lord. ⁹ Therefore also we have as our ambition, whether being at home, or being away from home, to be well pleasing to Him. ¹⁰ For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, that each one may receive the things done in the body, in accordance with the things which he did, whether good or bad.