"As for me and my house, we will serve the LORD." Joshua 24:15

Since before we had even decided to build a house we knew, if we ever had a chance, we wanted to write scripture verses on the door frames, walls, and foundation of our home. Today, October 19, 2014, we did just that. We picked out some of our favorite verses. Ones that meant a lot to us or that we had been praying over our house. Ones for those just stopping by, and ones for our future kiddos. We ended up with a list of a dozen or so passages and/or versus of scripture. They were all written within the walls of our home. Although they will be hidden, and most people will never know they are there, we pray that they will bless anyone who enters our home and those who will live in it after us. We tried to place each one in a specific spot that it was related to. For instance the one in the picture below is above our entryway.

Here is a list of some of the passages/versus we included and where we wrote them:

ABOVE FIREPLACE

Jeremiah 29:11

¹¹For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the Lord, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.

DOORFRAMES

Deuteronomy 11:18-21

¹⁸Fix these words of mine in your hearts and minds; tie them as symbols on your hands and bind them on your foreheads. ¹⁹Teach them to your children, talking about them when you sit at home and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up. ²⁰Write them on the doorframes of your houses and on your gates, ²¹so that your days and the days of your children may be many in the land the Lord swore to give your ancestors, as many as the days that the heavens are above the earth.

ENTRYWAYS

Deuteronomy 28:3-9

³You will be blessed in the city and blessed in the country.
⁴The fruit of your womb will be blessed, and the crops of your land and the young of your livestock—the calves of your herds and the lambs of your flocks.
⁵Your basket and your kneading trough will be blessed.
⁶You will be blessed when you come in and blessed when you go out.
⁷The Lord will grant that the enemies who rise up against you will be defeated before you. They will come at you from one direction but flee from you in seven.

⁸The Lord will send a blessing on your barns and on everything you put your hand to. The Lord your God will bless you in the land he is giving you.

⁹The Lord will establish you as his holy people, as he promised you on oath, if you keep the commands of the Lord your God and walk in obedience to him.

Joshua 24:15

¹⁵But if serving the Lord seems undesirable to you, then choose for yourselves this day whom you will serve, whether the gods your ancestors served beyond the Euphrates, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land you are living. But as for me and my household, we will serve the Lord.”

Hebrews 13:2

²Do not forget to show hospitality to strangers, for by so doing some people have shown hospitality to angels without knowing it.

Psalm 121

¹I lift up my eyes to the mountains—
where does my help come from?
²My help comes from the Lord,
the Maker of heaven and earth.

³He will not let your foot slip—
he who watches over you will not slumber;
⁴indeed, he who watches over Israel
will neither slumber nor sleep.

⁵The Lord watches over you—
the Lord is your shade at your right hand;
⁶the sun will not harm you by day,
nor the moon by night.

⁷The Lord will keep you from all harm—
he will watch over your life;
⁸the Lord will watch over your coming and going
both now and forevermore.

Numbers 6:24-26

²⁴“The Lord bless you
and keep you;
²⁵the Lord make his face shine on you
and be gracious to you;
²⁶the Lord turn his face toward you
and give you peace.”

KITCHEN & DINING ROOM

Proverbs 30:8-9

⁸Keep falsehood and lies far from me;
give me neither poverty nor riches,
but give me only my daily bread.
⁹Otherwise, I may have too much and disown you
and say, ‘Who is the Lord?’
Or I may become poor and steal,
and so dishonor the name of my God.

1 Corinthians 6:19

¹⁹Do you not know that your bodies are temples of the Holy Spirit, who is in you, whom you have received from God? You are not your own;

Proverbs 15:15

¹⁵The cheerful heart has a continual feast.

OFFICE

Colossians 3:23

²³Whatever you do, work at it with all your heart, as working for the Lord, not for human masters,

FAMILY ROOM/LOFT/GAMEROOM

Psalm 133:1

¹How good and pleasant it is
when God’s people live together in unity!

Psalm 34:3

³Glorify the Lord with me;
let us exalt his name together.

Proverbs 24:3-4

³By wisdom a house is built,
and through understanding it is established;
⁴through knowledge its rooms are filled
with rare and beautiful treasures.

FOUNDATION/BEAMS THAT SUPPORT THE WEIGHT OF THE HOME

Psalm 127:1

¹Unless the Lord builds the house,
the builders labor in vain.
Unless the Lord watches over the city,
the guards stand watch in vain.

Psalm 122:7

⁷May there be peace within your walls
and security within your citadels.”

Psalm 91:9-16

⁹If you say, “The Lord is my refuge,”
and you make the Most High your dwelling,
¹⁰no harm will overtake you,
no disaster will come near your tent.
¹¹For he will command his angels concerning you
to guard you in all your ways;
¹²they will lift you up in their hands,
so that you will not strike your foot against a stone.
¹³You will tread on the lion and the cobra;
you will trample the great lion and the serpent.

¹⁴“Because he loves me,” says the Lord, “I will rescue him;
I will protect him, for he acknowledges my name.
¹⁵He will call on me, and I will answer him;
I will be with him in trouble,
I will deliver him and honor him.
¹⁶With long life I will satisfy him
and show him my salvation.”

CHILDREN'S BEDROOMS (for if we are blessed with kids…)

1 Timothy 4:12

¹²Don’t let anyone look down on you because you are young, but set an example for the believers in speech, in conduct, in love, in faith and in purity.

CLOSETS

Colossians 3:14

¹⁴And over all these virtues put on love, which binds them all together in perfect unity.

BATHROOMS

Psalm 51:7

⁷Cleanse me with hyssop, and I will be clean;
wash me, and I will be whiter than snow.

OUR BEDROOM

Philippians 4:6-8

⁶Do not be anxious about anything, but in every situation, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God. ⁷And the peace of God, which transcends all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.

⁸Finally, brothers and sisters, whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable—if anything is excellent or praiseworthy—think about such things.

Matthew 11:28

²⁸“Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest.

1Corinthians 13:13

¹³And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.

We also added the passages of scripture from our wedding day on the framing behind where our bed will be. 1 Corinthians13:1-13 and Genesis 2:18-24