43 Bible Verses about construction

For which one of you, when he wants to build a tower, does not first sit down and calculate the cost to see if he has enough to complete it?

The house which I am about to build will be great, for greater is our God than all the gods.

for the equipping of the saints for the work of service, to the building up of the body of Christ;

you also, as living stones, are being built up as a spiritual house for a holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.

Now if any man builds on the foundation with gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, straw,

For we are God’s fellow workers; you are God’s field, God’s building.

They said, “Come, let us build for ourselves a city, and a tower whose top will reach into heaven, and let us make for ourselves a name, otherwise we will be scattered abroad over the face of the whole earth.”

The house, while it was being built, was built of stone prepared at the quarry, and there was neither hammer nor axe nor any iron tool heard in the house while it was being built.

Then that Sheshbazzar came and laid the foundations of the house of God in Jerusalem; and from then until now it has been under construction and it is not yet completed.’

It will be a day for building your walls.
On that day will your boundary be extended.

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

He began to build on the second day in the second month of the fourth year of his reign.

So Solomon’s builders and Hiram’s builders and the Gebalites cut them, and prepared the timbers and the stones to build the house.

The stone which the builders rejected
Has become the chief corner stone.

By wisdom a house is built,
And by understanding it is established;

saying, ‘This man began to build and was not able to finish.’

in whom the whole building, being fitted together, is growing into a holy temple in the Lord,

For we know that if the earthly tent which is our house is torn down, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens.

and they said to Moses, “The people are bringing much more than enough for the construction work which the Lord commanded us to perform.”

So Solomon built the house and finished it.

The material of the wall was jasper; and the city was pure gold, like clear glass.

Otherwise, when he has laid a foundation and is not able to finish, all who observe it begin to ridicule him,

Jesus *said to them, “Did you never read in the Scriptures,
‘The stone which the builders rejected,
This became the chief corner stone;
This came about from the Lord,
And it is marvelous in our eyes’?

David said, “My son Solomon is young and inexperienced, and the house that is to be built for the Lord shall be exceedingly magnificent, famous and glorious throughout all lands. Therefore now I will make preparation for it.” So David made ample preparations before his death.

The Jews then said, “It took forty-six years to build this temple, and will You raise it up in three days?”

Those who were rebuilding the wall and those who carried burdens took their load with one hand doing the work and the other holding a weapon.

“The hands of Zerubbabel have laid the foundation of this house, and his hands will finish it. Then you will know that the Lord of hosts has sent me to you.

having been built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Christ Jesus Himself being the corner stone,

Moreover, in my delight in the house of my God, the treasure I have of gold and silver, I give to the house of my God, over and above all that I have already provided for the holy temple,

Then work on the house of God in Jerusalem ceased, and it was stopped until the second year of the reign of Darius king of Persia.

According to the grace of God which was given to me, like a wise master builder I laid a foundation, and another is building on it. But each man must be careful how he builds on it.

Then the people of the land discouraged the people of Judah, and frightened them from building,

“When you build a new house, you shall make a parapet for your roof, so that you will not bring bloodguilt on your house if anyone falls from it.

But you, beloved, building yourselves up on your most holy faith, praying in the Holy Spirit,

Now these are the foundations which Solomon laid for building the house of God. The length in cubits, according to the old standard was sixty cubits, and the width twenty cubits.

Now Solomon was building his own house thirteen years, and he finished all his house.

All Scripture is inspired by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, for training in righteousness;

Leave this work on the house of God alone; let the governor of the Jews and the elders of the Jews rebuild this house of God on its site.

I told them how the hand of my God had been favorable to me and also about the king’s words which he had spoken to me. Then they said, “Let us arise and build.” So they put their hands to the good work.

from whom the whole body, being fitted and held together by what every joint supplies, according to the proper working of each individual part, causes the growth of the body for the building up of itself in love.